The courts consistently rejected such arguments as political matters, not deserving of their attention.
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This is not to say that the young men selected for this prestigious showcase are not deserving.
Are women who are in danger of losing their lives suddenly not deserving of help because some others may have received an abortion with some taxpayer money?
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Finally, the point of the blog post (one not deserving the exegesis it received from some readers) was about packing a small bag, not a big one.
"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.
The argument is that we all disagree about who is deserving or not, and the government is ill equipped to choose among these differences of opinion on who should be helped.
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But this is also the chancellor who courts private financiers to build public infrastructure, who stuck to the Tories' tight spending plans in his first two years in office, and who fiddles and fusses with the tax and benefit systems to ensure money goes to the deserving, not the idle, poor.
Deserving of it or not, Leno has become the villain to O'Brien's victim, with "Team Conan" campaigns sprouting up online and off.
Yet, Tagliabue did not believe the performance pool was deserving of suspensions.
This is the problem with the Nigerian system: a single man makes so much money not because he is hardworking or deserving, but because he is merely connected to the powers that be.
The short answer is that much of the lending has gone not to guarantee the deposits of deserving savers, nor even to pay the pensions of impoverished old folk or the wages of unpaid miners.
"I could not think of anybody who is more deserving, " said ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"My concern is that in pressing for some sort of designation for lands not protected yet, there may not be a mechanism to protect lands deserving of wilderness protection as designated wilderness, " he said.
Statistically he resembles Johnny Mize and Chuck Klein, both deserving hall-of-famers but not the sort of ballplayers who get their biographies written.
That's not to say Blackburn don't have their deserving individuals too.
This cuts bureaucracy and waste, and can ensure (though not infallibly) that public capital is efficiently allocated among the deserving.
Labour voters would not then have to agonise over whether to cast their votes for the deserving Mr Davies or to vote tactically for Mr Oaten.
There was a realisation, too, that spending money wisely in the Balkans is not quite the same as spending it freely: if the aim is to keep Mr Djukanovic in power, it must go to pay the pensions of deserving Montenegrins (including the Serb-minded) and so on, not to finance cigarette-smuggling by corrupt members of the regime.
Speaking at the launch of the coalition's mid-term review, Mr Clegg said it was not helpful to "portray" proposed changes to the welfare system as pitting "the deserving poor against the undeserving poor and the in-work against the out-of-work".
But, whether we like it or not, our economic recovery depends on bankers oiling the wheels of capitalism by providing credit to productive enterprises and deserving households.
The problem with such mandates is that they do not create rights for some so much as levy burdens on others, many of whom would be considered more deserving under more compelling criteria, in a manner hidden behind the veil of higher prices and fewer choices.
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