What is "deserved"

Usage examples of "deserved".

American struggle for independence hope for all humanity, and who, as Adams would long contend, never received the recognition they deserved.

When it was said he deserved to be known as the father of the American navy, Adams answered that he was father of enough as it was, with two sons, fourteen grandchildren, and five great grandchildren, all of whom required his attention and support.

I was beginning to understand my eccentric host, and, to flatter him, I answered that he praised me more than I deserved, and that my appetite was inferior to his.

Fear might drive him to the attempt now that he knew the manner of horrible pack that was upon his trail, and that Tarzan of the Apes was following him to wreak upon him the vengeance that he deserved.

Claredon would give him the chance to start anew, to prove he deserved the overlordship of such a vast demesne on his own merits, despite his baseborn origins and the scandals that had surrounded him his life long.

There was a suspicion in the air that the admiral believed the opposite of his words: that the men of the Bucephalas had got what they deserved, and their captain along with them.

After the war is fought, yield the sleek Russian That which thou canst not keep, his deserved portion Of blood, which shall not flow through streets and fields, Rivers and seas, like that which we may win, But stagnate in the veins of Christian slaves!

Socialism in one country, the filthiness of the Purges - the point of counterrevolution being reached - and the Fascist invasion saving Stalin from what he deserved at the hands of the people.

Ormand, himself a criminologist, had recognized the fact that Agent X deserved notoriety of another sort than the type city police records gave him.

More than once I have longed to change places with the prince regent for five minutes for the sole purpose of hanging Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt for naming such a town after me and God knows he deserved to be hanged for persuading the British government to build Dartmoor Prison on his property.

John of Cappadocia, whose actions had deserved a thousand deaths, was at last condemned for a crime of which he was innocent.

In the exercise of their functions, they were frequently called upon to detect the errors of heresy or the arts of faction, to oppose the designs of perfidious brethren, to stigmatize their characters with deserved infamy, and to expel them from the bosom of a society whose peace and happiness they had attempted to disturb.

The question and that familiar wording also implied that he might have a slightly harder time than he had hoped convincing IRU 247 that nothing on Dest deserved destruction.

She deserved a special tribute, and doggone it, he deserved the privilege of providing one.

The dogs deserved the chance to respond to a program of detraining aimed at preparing them for a return to civilian life.