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not merited

adjective as in unearned

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Rashford’s form has not merited selection, his chances reduced even further by rivals for his position such as Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Anthony Gordon of Newcastle United both having outstanding seasons.

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Oishi said faculty would be looking into the “due process policies that the President used extraordinary emergency powers that were not merited, given the lack of community threat.”

Former Socialist prime minister Felipe González has also said that the amnesty is not merited.

In a submission to the court put forward by a legal team led by Roddy Dunlop KC, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, they argued that changing the law would remove vital safeguards against miscarriages of justice and "raise the real possibility of convictions which are simply not merited."

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"Removing that safeguard raises the real possibility of convictions which are simply not merited."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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