The process is cumbersome and expensive, but it has allowed experts to keep track of the most prominent developments in their respective fields.Peer-review possesses other merits, the foremost being the ability to filter out dross.
My translation is below: While my chapbook is new, its face yet unerased, while the undried page still fears to be touched, go, boy: take it as a gift to the dear friend who merits my trifles foremost.
And Lancaster added: "Chris is in the team on merit as a player first and foremost, but he has also shown himself to be an outstanding leader for Harlequins and England.
The poet Imruʾ al-Qays (died c. 550 ce), of the tribe of Kindah, was foremost both in time and in poetic merit.
First and foremost the Fellowships are awarded on scientific merit; however, in the event of a tie between equally strong projects, priority is given to applicants who would benefit the most given their personal situation, a criteria jokingly referred to as the 'Hodgkin Factor'.
To be sure, Mr. Lubetzky says, "socially conscious brands engender more loyalty" among consumers, "but first and foremost, you have to stand on your merits".
Mr. Gramm, for example, held up the deal with Jordan not over any concern about the merits of expanded commerce between nations; he is one of the foremost advocates of free trade in Congress.
In the Mahayana tradition, however, bodhisattvas perform good acts and practices for long aeons and thus accumulate vast stores of merit, but their practice is invariably undertaken with the liberation of all beings foremost in their minds.
William E. Wallace, one of the foremost American experts on Michelangelo, who examined the painting in 2005, said there is at least enough evidence to merit a more extensive examination.
First and foremost: Really?
