She deserves our respect and admiration, but she is difficult to like.
If anyone deserved admiration in this situation, it was Kade.
The sight of human affairs deserves admiration and pity.
To him, this international surgeon was a man who deserved admiration.
People who do them deserve admiration for doing them.
She deserved admiration for the way she'd waited until just the right time, the right moment.
He adds that "many of his claims could be discussed or, perhaps, not acceptable, but deserve our respect and admiration."
I think they deserve more respect and admiration than most people give them.
Though for that matter the architecture deserved admiration, or at least study, on its own account.
They deserve respect and admiration for the way they have pursued their case.