(a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(3) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
(4) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(5) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(6) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(7) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(8) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
(9) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(10) These findings established that the cellular immunological response can be affected by specific inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis and deserve further consideration both under in vitro and in vivo conditions.
(11) The fact that sulfinate salts show activity, both ip and po, suggests that the -SO2Na moiety deserves more attention in medicinal chemistry.
(12) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(13) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(14) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(15) In the evolution of inflammatory diseases of adnexae algodysmenorrhea and disturbed menstrual rhythm deserves special attention to the clinical interpretation and to the formation of diagnostic hypothesis.
(16) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(19) The effect of reversing ventricular hypertrophy in patients with and without coronary disease deserves further study.
(20) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
Meritorious
Definition:
(a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said it still planned to close its compensation scheme, but would continue to consider "meritorious claims".
(2) Physical fitness tests will be overhauled, including new standards and surprise “spotchecks”, and the navy and marine corps will transition to a “meritorious” system of promotions, Mabus said.
(3) Improved communication between physicians and patients may result in fewer nonmeritorious malpractice claims while leading to less costly resolution of meritorious claims.
(4) One of the capital payment options under consideration is the establishment of a lid on capital expenditures and the concomitant allocation of capital to health care providers whose applications are the most meritorious.
(5) The overall achievement by scientists and clinicians in Korea has been meritorious in elucidating some of the pending problems in the areas of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
(6) The citation was read to the congregation, praising his “exceptionally meritorious service and his extraordinary integrity and leadership throughout his 11 years as an officer”.
(7) Yet if the post-feminist age is clearly not quite as meritorious as anticipated a brighter, more equal, future beckons.
(8) This program provides funds for rapid testing of investigator-initiated meritorious research ideas, new drugs, and treatment modalities.
(9) Whilst Glencore cannot predict the results of any litigation, it believes it has meritorious defences against those actions or claims.
(10) You must know that there is a direct application on the battlefield and we’re using it today, but we don’t really understand it yet so this is a critical element.” His awards include the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Service Medal, a Meritorious Service Award and an Army Commendation Medal.
(11) On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the organized health care of the city of Subotica, the authors present the development as well as the present functions of the establishment for the care of little children, which exists for 100 years already and is undoubtedly meritorious for the people of this region, justifying it's existence since the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
(12) The glutaraldehyde-vaccine is of good potency with a meritorious performance in tests for abnormal toxicity in mice, the leucocytosis-promoting-factor and the mouse weight gain.
(13) The purpose of the panels is to weed out frivolous lawsuits and aid the prompt settlement of meritorious claims.
(14) The listing prospectus does reveal a Belgian criminal investigation in which Glencore's Dutch-based grain trading operation, a former employee and one current employee have all been charged with bribing European officials, but the company does not detail any further legal battles as it believes it has "meritorious" defences and that any rulings will not adversely affect its finances.
(15) One of these was the Jewish physician Hermann Jastrowitz, whose meritorious achievements for the benefit of the Outpatient Division and Hospital of the Department of Medicine of the University of Halle have been practically completely documented and reconstructed from university and other records.
(16) It further concludes that it is essential to submit proposals for all prospective QA projects, potentially scientifically meritorious QA projects, and all scientific clinical research projects to an institutional review board (IRB) to render decisions about the protection of human subject's rights before accessing data.
(17) While it is widely acknowledged that the vocational potential of physically impaired persons should be evaluated in an organized manner, there are differences of opinion among professional evaluators as to which approach, or approaches, are the most meritorious; The four principal approaches are: (1) mental testing, (2) work sampling, (3) situational analysis, and (4) job tryouts.
(18) In its public filing, Twitter said "we believe we have meritorious defenses," although it also said "there can be no assurance that we will be successful" in resolving the dispute.
(19) He devoted much of his time and effort to improving medical care for the inmates, and he thus made a meritorious contribution to the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
(20) This must mean that meritorious claims are not being pursued because of the fees regime.” The letter urges the government to carry out a review of the fee levels, and urgently.