The phrase "anything merit" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "I don't think anything merit further discussion at this point."
Alternatives: "any value" or "any worth".
And, maybe more than anything else, merit will prevail.
No one has claimed that GS Yuasa was chosen for the 787 on anything but merit.
"I'm not convinced she really has done anything to merit being a senator," she said.
Between these two states comes the period of rejection, when right-thinking people cannot see anything of merit in the not-yet-rehabilitated work.
Her campaign has sought to quell the controversy by changing the subject to Mr. Brown's record and has said Mr. Brown was sexist for suggesting that she achieved her professional success through anything but merit.
"I'm sick and tired of having to skate on eggshells just waiting for them to make a bad call," said Fleury, who insisted he had not done anything to merit the 10-minute misconduct.
Doesn't he realize that we're playing with ten men each time he goes into one of his little playacting sulks?" HE hasn't done anything to merit such venom tonight, Nick.
It is capable of a sort of fabrication that is peculiar to the medium, of highly individualistic, highly crafted work that, like anything of merit, defies classification – although the very structure of the BBC's commissioning processes militate against the non-generic.
The "independent" filmmaker, Susser, straining for the brass ring of Sundance recognition and off-Hollywood distribution, seems as cynical as the propagandist Lu, but with lesser skills; the factitious premises of their films would have required extreme directorial interventions and inspirations to turn them into anything of merit.
The Chancellor makes are few comments in one show and you feel compelled to refute everything he said (no chance anything had merit?).
