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Its primary purpose was to pack these pages and obscure the simplicity of your primary argument, if that's a name merited by your bald assertion that verily this is that.

What the OPR Torture Report Will Not Say 2009

In this taxonomy of transgression, original sin merited less punishment than did actual sins, as noted by the monk William in his debate with the heresiarch Henry of Lausanne (minori pena teneantur).

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

His widow might continue to hold her pious faith in him, and refuse to believe that his name merited obloquy; his child knew better.

The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

Its primary purpose was to pack these pages and obscure the simplicity of your primary argument, if that's a name merited by your bald assertion that verily this is that.

Let's Try Democracy 2009

Its primary purpose was to pack these pages and obscure the simplicity of your primary argument, if that's a name merited by your bald assertion that verily this is that.

The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy 2009

The respect he’s merited from the Pentagon and from his commanders — particularly Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. Ray Odierno — is both commensurate with the steps he’s taken to visibly support them, and the result of being a reality-based man in a fantasy-based administration.

At The Gates | ATTACKERMAN 2008

Towards the close of the supper, which, like every thing else round him, was worthy of Sardanapalus, he addressed himself to me, and giving a most gracious personal opinion of what my "services had merited from the English minister," said that, "limited as his own means of rewarding zeal and ability might be, he begged of me to retain a slight memorial of his friendship, and of our day together on the heights of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

She ordered a preliminary probe into whether Gore's White House calls merited the appointment of a special prosecutor.

You Can Call Him Caught 2008

Now, that which is thus merited, which is of debt to be bestowed, we do not say that it may be bestowed, but it ought so to be, and it is injustice if it be not.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

While we think of this protracted cruelty of the author of his imprisonment, it is some consolation to know that he met with what we may well call a merited retribution.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan