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Example sentences for: deserved

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He has an enthusiastic supporter in the conservative Daily Telegraph of London, which said in an editorial Thursday that he deserved "the thanks of democrats throughout the world" for his stand on the decommissioning issue.
Clinton's critics could have denied that the Wye deal was a triumph or that Clinton deserved credit for it.
We humans deserved a better spokesman at this epochal point in our ongoing voyage of humility; a half century from now, surly, street-tough androids will routinely start bar brawls over the bitchy tone of Kasparov's remarks.
He never once in my lifetime's recall said that any man or woman deserved special respect for riches--in fact, like Adam Smith, he believed that the pleadings of the rich merited special suspicion.
The attorney for Spencer's wife says that Spencer 1) committed adultery with a dozen women; 2) summoned his wife to his bath to inform her, "I no longer love you and you're no good as a wife"; 3) expressed remorse by telling one of his mistresses that his wife deserved a husband who could "help her deal with her shortcomings."