Deserving

They call Paris the City of Lights, but Las Vegas may be more deserving of that title.

This hotel is far from deserving the four stars the guidebook gives it.

Tom was really deserving.

We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.

I can't think of anyone more deserving of the award than Tom.

Khadija said "Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You keep good relations with your kith and kin, help the poor and the destitute, serve your guests generously and assist the deserving calamity-afflicted ones.

They stopped deserving our respect when they said we were idiots that wouldn't amount to anything meaningful.

To Mr Johnson, Palestinians are dark skinned and have dark eyes whereas Ukrainians are white and have blue eyes like us. Therefore, Ukrainians are more deserving of our sympathy than Palestinians.

If the Japanese were white people with blond hair and blue eyes, many US Senators, in a manner reminiscent of Britain's Boris Johnson's views about who should be deserving of Western empathy, would have strongly argued and campaigned against nuking them.

Are white people more deserving of the healthcare system than aboriginal people?