Unmerited

As long as elites persist in unmerited deference to and flattery of the majority, containing the dangers of voter irrationality will be very hard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My favorite from the Cato Unbound essay: As long as elites persist in unmerited deference to and flattery of the ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

The influence of the priesthood over the people was fostered by the remembrance of the events to which he had alluded; and the idea of unmerited and mutual suffering; and no doubt could be entertained, from their present feelings, that if the Roman Catholics were admitted to the enjoyment of political power, their first exertion would be to restore their religion to its original supremacy; and to recover the possessions and property of which they had been stripped by the reformation. ❋ Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1810)

Government, Madison wrote, should discourage the unnecessary accumulation of great wealth - especially "unmerited" fortunes derived from public patronage. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The court ruled that the duke's use of the Savoy name had been "unmerited" and ordered him to bring his "harmful conduct" to an immediate end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• flows from a love that come through the recognition that wonderful gifts are given to us "unmerited", leading to gratitude. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will take more than an unmerited victory over Wales to rebuild Fabio Capello's reputation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although they may restrain all outward show, strong men, under unmerited misfortune, are sometimes very close to tears. just then the vision of his little California home, and of the wife and two yellow-haired boys, was strong upon him, and there was a strange, choking sensation in his throat, which made him afraid that if he attempted to speak he would sob instead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For eight months, a greatly wronged man, he was compelled to undergo his unmerited punishment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I suspect without the head honcho people will be less apt to post to our well-qualified, but unmerited community. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or was she penitently striving to make amends for the unmerited harshness she had dealt him? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Environmental groups, with their perhaps unmerited moral authority, have insisted for years that curbing carbon is the greatest human challenge, and those groups that haven't opted for escapism, insisting wind and solar somehow can make up the difference, have quietly recognized that the only alternative to fossil energy is nuclear. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

I think suppressing our righteous outrage is far more polically damaging, though, because it lends unmerited legitimacy to their baseless and irresponsible attacks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Often we have a negative association as to what constitutes "modern" or "contemporary" church architecture -- and often, this is not unmerited. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Walton's letters, to the sudden deaths in the Frankenstein and Moritz households, to the unmerited reversal of Justine's fortunes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These two exchanged posts about baiting before buckhunter entered the conversation with an unmerited attack on Texans: ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Discounting the unmerited position of a crude man.) on July 1, 2009 at 5: 33 pm Finger Moose ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

This example of unmerited suffering is the greatest example for us to loose ourselves for the sake of our community in being renewed, refreshed and rejuvenated as we begin a New Year of unprecedented possibilities. ❋ Jr. Reverend William E. Flippin (2011)

At the recent launch of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, some distinguished economists outlined in vivid detail how the increase in inequality and concentration of often unmerited financial rewards at the top have had negative consequences for the economy and society. ❋ Unknown (2011)