Merited Sentence Examples

Prantl speaks of them with great, but hardly merited, contempt.

Fru Nordenflycht wrote with facility and grace; her collection of lyrics, The Sorrowing Turtledove (1743), in spite of its affectation, enjoyed and merited a great success; it was the expression of a deep and genuine sorrow - the death of her husband after a very brief and happy married life.

At first the prior treated the provocation with merited contempt, but his too zealous disciple Fra Domenico accepted the challenge.

Tombs of brick with a single chamber were succeeded by tombs of stone with several chambers, until they really merited the name of houses of eternity that the Egyptians gave to them.

These poems appeared in the Musenalmanach, a new publication which Schiller began in 1796, the Horen, which had never met with the success it merited, coming to an end in 1797.

On the one hand, the suppression is denounced as a base surrender to the forces of tyranny and irreligion, an act of treason to conscience, which reaped its just punishment of remorse; on the other hand, it is as ardently maintained that Clement acted in full accord with his conscience, and that the order merited its fate by its own mischievous activities which made it an offence to religion and authority alike.

Without entering into any examination of the charges brought before them, the synod condemned him on the ground of contumacy, and, hinting that his audacity merited the punishment of treason, called on the emperor to ratify and enforce their decision.

Since the couple buying the home delayed the closing the day before it was scheduled, I'm wondering if there was something discovered in the final inspection/walk-through which suddenly merited a halt to the proceedings.

Given that vitamin C is necessary for health and a relatively innocuous vitamin, continued study may be merited.

That's possibly merited for their respective stances, but for a regular person just looking to lose a few pounds, you can't really go wrong with sticking to moderate servings of the foods outlined above.

This was the track that merited Clapton the famous graffiti that said, "Clapton is God".

The short was very critical of the social media phenomenon, but are the complaints merited?

The Sephardic Jews in all these respects occupied a superior position, and they merited the partiality shown to them.

The boys have a government of their own, elect their officials from among themselves, and inflict such punishment on any of their number as the boys deem merited.

Nevertheless he cheerfully gave his voice in 1814 for the dethronement of his patron, and his "suppleness" merited a seat in the chamber of peers, and, in 1817, the dignity of a marquisate.

Probably, then, the original and limited address, or rather salutation, was never copied when this treatise in letter form, like the epistle to the Romans, passed into the wider circulation which its contents merited.

In the Loci of 1535 Melanchthon sought to put the fact of the co-existence of justification and good works in the believer on a secure basis by declaring the latter necessary to eternal life, though the believer's destiny thereto is already fully guaranteed in his justification, In the Loci of 1543 he did not retain the doctrine of the necessity of good works in order to salvation, and to this he added, in the Leipzig Interim, "that this in no way countenances the error that eternal life is merited by the worthiness of our own works."

The eloquence of the Italian humanist has bestowed a not entirely merited aureole on the memory of Jerome of Prague.

The nucleus of the city occupies an island formed by the North and South Channels, two arms of the river Lee, and in former times no doubt merited its name, which signifies a swamp. In the beginning of the 18th century, indeed, this island was broken up into many parts connected by drawbridges, by numerous small channels navigable at high tide.

They are in reality a collection of stiff and formal essays which have long ago fallen into merited oblivion.

Another king in his place might have merited such titles, but Edward was too careless, too unsystematic, too lazy, and too fond of selfindulgence to make a real tyrant.

Hitherto it had been only the works of Wycliffe that had merited this attention on the part of inquisitors.

All souls were tried once, with equal privilege; all fell, save one, who steadily clave to the Logos, and thus merited to become in due time the human soul of Jesus Christ.

No higher function could be given to free will; unless, by an extravagance, some theologian should teach that the Almighty Himself had merited His sovereignty by the virtuous use of freedom.

I was cheerfully received, and rejoiced that I had merited the approbation of so many worthy individuals.

His title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided.

Johan Nordahl Brun (1745-1816), a young writer who did better things later on, gave the finishing touch to the exotic absurdity by bringing out a wretched piece called Zarina, which was hailed by the press as the first original Danish tragedy, although Ewald's exquisite Rolf Krage, which truly merited that title, had appeared two years before.