"I supported bankruptcy reform legislation because of its merits".
An radio frequency deflector (RFD) was proposed as a chopper for the J-PARC linac, because of its merits of high deflecting field, compact structure, ease to manufacture and both reliability and flexibility of the total chopper operation.
Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is a promising solution to global energy and environmental problems because of its merits on clean, cost-effectiveness, relatively high efficiency, and easy fabrication.
Biomass is one of the most promising feedstocks for biofuel production because of its merits of renewability and wide distribution.
Li4Ti5O12 has attracted attention as a Li ion battery electrode for energy storage because of its merit as zero-strain lithium insertion hosts and its stable insertion potential at 1.55 V vs. Li [4].
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.
"The New Communism matters not because of its intellectual merits but because it may yet influence layers of young Europeans in the context of an exhausted social democracy, austerity and a self-loathing intellectual culture," wrote Johnson.
Requiring such a commission could create a conflict of interest, perhaps tempting curators to show work because it would sell rather than because of its artistic merits alone.
The essay quickly turns to its main concern, Coetzee's own discovery of the classics as an unhappy teenager in South Africa, and he wrestles with the question of whether he really fell in love with a classic (in this case, the music of Bach) because of its intrinsic merits or, like Eliot, because it offered him a ticket out of a provincial dead end.
To count as a convention, a reproduced pattern must be reproduced, in large part, simply because it is a precedent, not because of its intrinsic merits.
"His application was granted because of its considerable merits," Mr. Bartolomucci said.
