Sentence examples for doubtful merit from inspiring English sources

Of more doubtful merit, however, is your claim that the Canadian response to the crisis has been "tepid".

The decisions in this area, Justice Stevens wrote, "have been few and, in my view, of doubtful merit".

"The less the FISA court comes to trust the validity of the applications, the more inclined the judges will be to impose on all applications the kind of scrutiny that doubtful applications merit, which of course takes more time and causes more delay because the court's resources are limited," he said.

He is also doubtful about the merits of supermarkets expanding their non-food businesses.

Nevertheless, in many cases authors are not aware of the consequences that occur when different Ri definitions are being used, such as possible misinterpretations, doubtful comparisons and false figures of merit.

For the loved ones left behind by America's 4,000 dead, it is doubtful there is any outcome that could possibly merit their sacrifice.

Obama is faced with the challenge of persuading his doubtful countrymen and an intractable Congress of the merits of military action.

(It is doubtful he is going to introspectively consider the merits of the feedback, take personal responsibility, and apologetically reach out to address the misunderstanding).

In the upper bulb are the better-off, who are more optimistic about their living standards, more cautious about the merits of looser fiscal policy and more doubtful about government's ability to affect wages or prices.

It is doubtful, then, that the clothes Ms. Subkoff presented on Sunday will merit the same place in the annals, for they are made of new cloth like virtually everyone else's.

Whether it has the merit of fairness, or the teeth to bite the deficit, is doubtful.