Sentence examples for earning merit from inspiring English sources
Buddhists call it "earning merit," because they give food in order to speed their path through the next world.
Lee compares it to earning merit badges in the Boy Scouts.
Instead of a diploma being a certificate of "seat time served" in a collection of courses, students will work towards earning "merit badges" representing diverse competencies - much in the way that Scouts do today - at times and places that are consistent with their learning interests and goals.
Fifteen Million Merits, the second episode, imagines a dystopian near future where everyone spends their days on exercise bikes, earning merits that can be used to purchase various forms of disposable entertainment.
He earned merit badges in the Boy Scouts.
Boy Scouts earn merit badges for cleaning, patching and resetting tombstones.
FOR Buddhists it is important to earn merit in this life, so as to be rewarded in the next one.
Connie Yowell, director of education at MacArthur, offers this example: a 4-H Club leader who helps his young members earn merit badges might earn a badge himself.
She sat behind a row of Girl Scouts, who told her that they were at the Cineplex to earn merit badges in Tolerance.
There are many new facets to Girl Scouts, but the girls who meet at Schomberg School still sell cookies, earn merit badges and go camping.
As the proud father of a scout who has earned merit badges in shotgun shooting and rifle shooting, I understand the requirements for both are all about learning to handle firearms safely.
