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You're like the smartest, best, most deserving elder this center has ever seen.
You must learn, Mrs. Collins, to draw a firm line between the deserving poor and the undeserving.
Damn it, Nate! The woman on that table is just as deserving of dignity as anyone else we prepare.
There's no question of your deserving them.
I am not a decoration to be rewarded for some deserving officer.
Someone deserving.
I figured any fella that shouldered a gun was deserving of respect.
I say.. they are deserving of each other.
But tell us this, Germanicus: Did great Caesar also toss one-third of the Roman Empire.. into Cleopatra's undoubtedly deserving lap?
But my needs is as great as the mos deserving' widows that ever got money. out of six diferent charities in one week for the death o' the same 'usband.
I don't need less than a deserving' man, I need more.
Money is a little hard to come by, and I don't know if you're deserving.
Pick it up, before somebody more deserving than you does!
Russell, if nobody ever lifted a finger until people were deserving, the whole world would go to hell.
No Mr. Chalmers, I think Mr. Alastair here is much more deserving of a reward than I am.
A man of parts and quite deserving, no doubt.
Give it to some deserving family?
But most of all because they offend thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all our love.
I think, under the circumstances, cavender, since you've done so very well with that subject, it occurs to me that there are other deserving subjects down there who might require a little angelic assistance from time to time.
I say they are deserving of each other.
Did great Caesar also toss one-third of the Roman Empire into Cleopatra's undoubtedly deserving lap?
I'm sure you can find somebody more deserving.
But my needs is as great as the most deserving' widows that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death o' the same 'usband.
I ain't pretending' to be deserving'.
I'M SURE THESE EXCELLENT LADIES ARE FAR MORE DESERVING OF THEM.
I'd rather you conserve your impetuous energies for emotions more deserving.
Yes, we've done a great deal of work in helping deserving cases.
I professed me thy friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness.
Reputation is an idle and most false disposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
Yes. We'll try to be deserving.
But you will find that he is deserving of the same loyalty and confidence each of you have given me.
News and current affairs
The wayward Kuchma is far more deserving of Europe imposing safeguards to ensure his good behavior.
Myanmar's transition is in some ways quieter, without the fanfare of Twitter and Facebook, but it is no less real - and no less deserving of support.
But consider, instead, the US system: students pay for their education and, with part of the tuition these students pay, universities finance scholarships for deserving but poor students.
Competition between them works because it involves fighting for the best students and offering scholarships to deserving poor ones.
The gains do not accrue to the most deserving.
Support for the deserving poor was to her like charity wrung from the household budget.
Israelis justified their stance with this question: Just when did the Palestinians become a nation deserving of statehood?
Gore's co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is less known, but no less deserving.
China's insolent prosperity, even if it is far from being distributed equally, China's relative political stability, even if the regime's opening remains strictly limited, are undeniable and deserving of respect.
The IMF should stick to supporting countries with temporary external-financing problems; a wealthy creditor region that refuses to address its institutional contradictions is not a deserving case.
First and foremost, the eurozone countries' decision to admit Greece to the single currency in 2002 was woefully irresponsible, with French advocacy deserving much of the blame.
Women hear over and over that we have to be twice as good as men to be perceived as successful, deserving leaders.
Anyone who endangered the international security of the Soviet Union was deemed a traitor deserving death.
The more people believe that it is the hardworking and the deserving who have money, the more they are willing to tolerate transactions for money (though some transactions remain beyond the pale).
In a non-clinical context, individuals at risk in the future may be regarded as deserving differential treatment before it is known whether or not the disease will ever occur.