1.   Did those figures improve because of creative bean-counting techniques in which fewer calls are deemed worthy of investigation?

2.   The issues the Republicans deem worthy of constitutional protection are a motley lot of special-interest pleadings.

3.   Strangely, when Tir Na Nog prizewinners were announced this week, no book was deemed worthy of the English language prize.

4.   And why was Mihailovic deemed worthy of support by the Dutch security services for several months while no action was taken on the evidence he had produced?

5.   As in Asian forms of theater like Noh and Kabuki, the labor of preparation is deemed worthy of aesthetic delight.

6.   Beyond the game on the field, the acoustics of baseball stadiums themselves have been deemed worthy of extensive research.

7.   A certain amount of time has to happen before these scraps of paper are deemed worthy of being collected.

8.   A few other subjects are deemed worthy of serious consideration.

9.   But for all the publicity, the book has not been deemed worthy of review or commentary by the critics.

10.   But that is how the Celtics are seen, when they are even deemed worthy of discussion.