The incident barely merited mention on the news, so heavy has been the parade of deadly attacks.

Some of them barely merited the title of men.

Items such as the cigarette lighter, the self-parking windscreen wipers and the side windows that wound down fully into the doors barely merited a mention.

Images and acts, he added, that might once have been shocking now barely merit a yawn.

How is he going to dialogue with people he evidently feels so little concern for they barely merit a mention in this piece, and then only as 'Arabs'?

"In judging Palin, he was relying on a vetting so hasty and haphazard it barely merited the name."

Skade would have laughed at him now as he struggled to match a thought-processing rate that would-to her-have barely merited comment.

Houses that barely merited the name of architecture took on a monumental form.

In his opinion this overpass barely merited the honor.

This catastrophe barely merited a mention until the end of an otherwise lengthy speech.