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Example sentences for: deserving

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The crime is so repugnant, they say, that it is hard to treat rapists as people deserving of any concern.
An Army Ranger is no doubt deserving of an ample extra reward when he's jumping out of planes and sleeping in a foxhole, but not when he's serving as a clerical assistant at the Pentagon, returning to his nice suburban home every night in time for dinner with his family.
As any semiconscious economics student could tell you, a higher rate would not signal that the loan in question is more deserving than another, but rather, the opposite: that investors are being compensated for extra risk, leaving the marginal lender indifferent among the alternatives.
That is what it takes to pay our faculty and staff, provide programs such as the civil and criminal practice clinics, sponsor travel for the moot court teams, cover expenses for the two law reviews, provide scholarships for deserving students, and meet the rising costs of maintaining our law library.
Just because Cramer is more ethical than an infamous pump-and-dumpster doesn't mean that his unusual position as both professional money manager and professional financial journalist--and yes, it is unusual--isn't deserving of scrutiny and criticism.