And five years later, when President Ford was looking for a replacement for Justice William O. Douglas, a liberal icon, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, he, too, decided to emphasize merit and competence over ideology or cronyism.
After President Obama announced Judge Merrick Garland as his nominee to the Supreme Court, commentators praised Obama for emphasizing "merit" instead of playing into identity politics.
They're keen to emphasize their merits—stating they work with some of the most powerful tools on the planet, create new software, hardware, and super solutions that no one has ever heard of.
Several of our results emphasize the merits of including antibody-based techniques in cell wall comparative studies.
These advertisements were for resort hotels and each one emphasized the merits of cantors who would be appearing.
Sitting next to Cha, Albright emphasized the merits of diplomacy and said: "It would be great if we had an ambassador in Seoul" — prompting laughs from the audience.
Time was, manufacturers marketed high-priced audio equipment by emphasizing technical merits like frequency response, optimum impedance, ambient noise attenuation and so on.
Some of the restored films are distinguished more by their scarcity than by their beauty, but many in the series are important additions to the repertory — and the rare chance to see them projected on a big screen emphasizes their merits.
We point this out only to emphasize the merit in making a rapid determination as to whether you are interested in inspecting, copying or retaining any of the above-described records in the warehouse".
Kerry also emphasized the merits of diplomacy just days after his own frantic series of phone calls with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif helped secure the release of 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran on a Gulf island.
