Sentence examples for Modest merits from inspiring English sources
But the film, a muddled, disposable crime thriller, has modest merits.
The latest Jay-Z track - 'Change Clothes' - namechecks the decidedly 'un-bling' logistics firm U-haul, while on another top 20 track, rap artist Chingy considers the modest merits of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.
The SNP associations identified in this study, although modest, merit further investigation in a larger cohort of suicide attempters and may contribute to future meta-analysis of suicidal behaviour susceptibility loci.
That's why the good ones — the ones that pull more than a few threads from the underlying tangle and let them show through the shiny surface of simplification — take hold of the imagination in ways that defy their modest artistic merits.
Some caravansaries are of modest architectural merit, with well-hewn, massive walls and impressive proportions.
Conversely, from the top down the same ladder, once the quest for modest and compassionate merit became firmly established as the rule of the political game, the more coveted and merit-worthy males and females would tend to pair together and avoid overt extra-pair solicitations so as not to overshadow their lesser competitors, thus avoiding demerit and the risk of quorum punishment.
Again, it appears as a key "evo" factor responsible for the biological fitness (differential reproduction) which stemmed from modest and compassionate merit all along humans' egalitarian past.
The new secretary must persuade visitors that the quality of the experience merits a modest charge.
This proposal has merit but is too modest.
Union officials said City Hall has signaled recently that it will agree to some modest across-the-board increase, with merit pay on top of that.
The French have also said the Brown government was slow to accept that the ceremonies merited more than a modest British involvement, since British policy had been to give full-scale government backing only to commemorations at decade-long intervals.
