The phrase "a distinct merit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to highlight a specific advantage or quality that stands out in a particular context.
Example: "The proposal has a distinct merit in its innovative approach to sustainability."
Alternatives: "a clear advantage" or "a notable benefit."
Obviously, this is a political attack more than a diagnosis, but Christie's comments do hold one distinct merit: It's true that sleep and decision-making go hand in hand, an important fact to keep in mind before someone chooses to, say, make an important political call.
We conclude that the WBE model had the distinct merit of shedding light on some important features such as conduit tapering.
We therefore prefer to recognize each of Clades N5 N7 as a distinct entity meriting equal rank, rather than combining them into the expanded genus Ponerorchis sensu Jin et al. [ 28].
While not a fashionable perspective, this has distinct merits, among them that it satisfies the human appetite for an intelligible story.
Each of these approaches has distinct merits and limitations, and are at the early stages of investigation and development.
The distinct merits of the InterMine framework have inspired us to develop TargetMine, an integrated resource for retrieval of target genes and proteins for experimental characterisation and drug discovery.
The two heterogeneity quantifying statistics have distinct merits in quantifying heterogeneity.
In partial order game trees, the outcomes evaluated at the tip nodes are vectors, where each dimension of the vector represents a distinct criterion of merit.
King has defended the hearings, saying that radical Islam is a distinct threat that merits investigation, even though such an inquiry might not be "politically correct".
Therefore, the possibility that weekly paclitaxel versus every 3-weekly docetaxel targets different populations of tumors is a distinct hypothesis that merits further investigation.
