She knew she would have to tell him soon that he hardly merited her attention at all, but she did not plan to do that tonight.

To an unschooled or cursory observer, they might easily have been mistaken for fuel tanks or napalm canisters, and such objects hardly merit a second look.

Their fielding was shoddy, the bowling mostly thoughtless and Andrew Strauss's captaincy hardly merited any gongs.

Being stationary or slow-moving targets, they hardly merit the attention of the snipers with their Mausers and telescopic sights, who concentrate mainly on killing the officers.

But these points hardly merit the Dole broadside.

Ripken was named an American League All-Star as an honor for career achievement, his statistics this season hardly meriting his inclusion on the team.

It is as though the new groups hardly merit any notice.

Ten years ago business news hardly merited a two-minute segment on television; today, the airwaves are filled with shows devoted wholly to business, and to business people.

Yet some of the dishes, especially the salads, offered variations that seemed so subtle they hardly merited separate recipes.

Frank and April's plans would hardly merit a raised eyebrow; if anything, they'd seem somewhat timid, even bourgeois, in their Old World aspirations.