The phrase "as meriting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that deserves recognition, attention, or a particular status.
Example: "The project was evaluated thoroughly, and the team’s efforts were deemed as meriting special acknowledgment."
Alternatives: "as deserving" or "as worthy of".
And I can certainly object to the characterization of Philadelphia's Creative Industry Workforce grant program as meriting inclusion in the McCain-Coburn report.
As someone who came up in the first wave of funk, Hancock now disowns much of what he once thought of as meriting the term.
The elegant Frenchwoman cites Johnson's efforts to tackle crime, improvements in London's public transport, and the increase in security cameras as meriting her particular approval.
The right to a discharge is not unqualified and may be forfeited by the commission of acts that the particular legislation considers as meriting this sanction.
Levi, who has exposed overstatements on both sides of the polarized debate, sees the pipeline as meriting approval mainly because its impact on climate — whether approved or denied — would be minimal when placed in global context.
More immediately, what is needed are hundreds more immigration judges to deal with a historically high backlog of around 800,000 cases, to determine which should be justifiably regarded as meriting asylum.
And they certainly do not want anything as modern, as democratic and as merit-based as a playoff.
But Vivienne Ming, who since late in 2012 has been the chief scientist at Gild, says she doesn't think Silicon Valley is as merit-based as people imagine.
This approach is known as merit aid.
What has become known as merit selection began with the Missouri Plan in 1940.
Standardized tests have been disguising class and race privilege as merit for decades.
