Sentence examples for direct merits from inspiring English sources

And what that means is that stimulus and/or austerity should be considered on their direct merits, a comparison that makes a strong case for stimulus while revealing austerity as a (literally) unmitigated disaster.

It even merits direct involvement by President Obama.

The point estimates on the control variables are of no direct interest, but merit some brief discussion.

Instead the Conservatives fought a rather half-hearted campaign for city mayors, organising referendums in ten cities on May 3rd, and sending various Tory bigwigs round the country to talk up the merits of direct elections.

Rainfall estimates from cloud observations differ from direct measurements, but have merits such as temporal and horizontal continuity (see, e.g., Xie and Arkin 1997).

African-Americans were divided over the merits of direct, legal resistance.

Its data show that the only two TV ads created by the No on 8 campaign that made voters more likely to support same-sex marriage were the only two that used the word "gay" (none of the other fourteen breathed a word about whose lives would be most affected by Prop 8) and that made clear, direct arguments on the merits.

It is difficult to draw direct comparisons on the merits and shortfalls of all the methods, as they take quite different approaches to resolve subsequence/domain families.

We also try to go one step further and reflect on the relative merits of direct vs 2-stage approaches for structured motifs finding.

The merit of indirect selection per unit time, relative to the merit of direct selection, can be described as the indirect selection response (CR X) divided by the direct selection response (R X).

Although the United States policy now prohibits military aid for counterinsurgency operations, an all-out war in this strategically situated country may lead to a renewed debate about the merits of directing aid to battle the insurgents.