= 'Deeds meriting praise'; compare 87 'tuas ... laudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

They do exist, but not as a challenger meriting constant attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Lutuli] Reference

Now in the life to come there is no state of meriting or demeriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Yet, today was an event meriting the same sort of excitement and attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Siegel: Michelle On The Mall] Reference

There were still some other matters of finance meriting legislative attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

These problems, while meriting attention, are not appropriate uses of the funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Statement On Interior Dept Appropriations] Reference

And therefore, since He is no longer a wayfarer, He is not in the state of meriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

I want to find whatever it is I've always been missing, before I stop meriting patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss.] Reference

And our interests in Afghanistan do not rise to the level of meriting this type of approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilan Goldenberg: The Case for a Middle Path in Afghanistan] Reference

Prizes of the undermentioned values will be given half-yearly for suggestions meriting reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa] Reference

Now the life to come will be a state not of meriting but of receiving the reward of our merits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

It comes off nice, pat and perfectly incredible, in the original sense of 'not meriting belief.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Frasca: Surgery, Please - A Look At Edwards On Health Care] Reference

The sylvan scene becomes peopled with "National Guards Washing," -- a scene meriting the notice of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

Which is why anyone who defends his posts as being in 'good faith' and not meriting zeros is a liar.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Attacks Hillary Campaign] Reference

The Chateau de Bagatelle was built in a month, thus meriting its name, by the Comte d'Artois, the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Other lower-wattage personalities meriting curious glances were Carson Daly, Mark Green and Al Sharpton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting the X in Xmas] Reference

In France at the end of March conditions meriting the popular description of 'wind up' were recognisable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Among the objects meriting your attention will be important recommendations from the Secretaries of War and Navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Reply Obj. 1: The source of meriting comes of the soul, while the body is the instrument of the meritorious work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

But the glory of the body, and the like, are less than the dignity of meriting, which pertains to the virtue of charity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

All these Chaplains rendered a brave and excellent service, meriting the respect and confidence of officers and men alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

This He did by meriting grace for them and giving them this spiritual help to withstand the devil in all his attacks upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference

Spanish aristocracy as traitors -- that is, as recreants and apostates -- from any and every cause meriting the name of national.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

Obj. 2: Further, the same thing cannot be cause and effect: hence grace, which is the cause of meriting, does not come under merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

Indes Orientales (1803-1809) goes further still by drawing attention to these people as meriting distinction for superior mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Was there no lover who aspired as Endymion aspired, no Spanish king meriting the fate of Mydas, no man favoured as was Phao by Sapho?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

Not even close to meriting the Consent of Congress, a Constituional Responsibility to conform ONLY qualified and centrist candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: "I Cannot Support" Mukasey For AG] Reference

Greyhound terminal opened on New York Avenue and 12th Street, it was a major cultural event meriting six pages in The Washington Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Swell Ride It Was] Reference

Just perturbance at another worthless uttering from a delusional campaign apparently meriting yet another "camp hillary says ..." post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Ickes: Hillary Will Need "A Few" More Super-Dels Than Obama To Catch Him] Reference

Three million Madeline Mc Canns each year meriting less column space than any major fashion house, how can I just passively accept this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story to Forget] Reference

It may be urged that the early scenes do present Barabas as meriting our pity, that our compassion does go out to him in his oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

But Christ's death could not operate in this way, because in death the body is separated from the soul, which is the principle of meriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

If he is of sound mind, he is guilty of a very cruel and shameless wrong, meriting expulsion from any body that makes laws against larceny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference

She remarked -- and here I really felt that there was little that I must needs explain -- for I am not conscious of meriting her reproach on this score.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference

The only intervening occurrence meriting attention is the promulgation of a French decree purporting to be a definitive repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

And I can certainly object to the characterization of Philadelphia's Creative Industry Workforce grant program as meriting inclusion in the McCain-Coburn report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary P. Steuer: Coburn and McCain: Giving the Arts a Starring Role Again] Reference

It began several years ago with the first round of friends who became vegetarian, a food choice elevated to religious significance and meriting that level of dignified respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Can Guess Who's Coming To Dinner] Reference

The attempt to explore the Red River, under the direction of Mr. Freeman, though conducted with a zeal and prudence meriting entire approbation, has not been equally successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference