The phrase "demerits of having" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to indicate the drawbacks of having something. For example, "The demerits of having a car in the city include expensive parking fees and high gas prices."
The verdict was a crucial step towards the freedom of the written word, at least for works of literary merit (works of no literary merit were not safe until the trial of Oz in 1971, and works of demerit had to await the acquittal of Inside Linda Lovelace in 1977).
Women did not differentiate the quality of care they received between the public and private hospitals as both had different merits and demerits of their own.
The merits and demerits of both kinetic approaches have been discussed.
Merits and demerits of alcoholic beverage intake have been long explored because of its benefit for cardiovascular disease (Corrao et al, 2000; Fillmore et al, 2007; Ronksley et al, 2011) or carcinogenic effect (Kan et al, 2011).
The reason American manufacturing has been in decline is not because of any fundamental demerits of manufacturing but rather because United States trade policy has been weak and dysfunctional for two generations.
The merits and demerits of different models evolved by many researchers have been critically analyzed.
The relative merits and demerits of other works that predate this paper have been reviewed and critically evaluated.
The present study aims at describing the design specifications and highlighting the merits and demerits of various solar stills upon which research has been done till recent past.
Earlier designs have demerit of long processing time, since the reading, writing and filtering operations have been processed in each cycles.
If DeMerit had not stirred Bruce Arena, who was the coach of the United States team, he had caught the attention of Elton John, an inveterate soccer fan and Watford's former chairman.
