Sentence examples for grounds of merit from inspiring English sources

"In a society that supposedly offers universal access to health, education and so on, social and political rise must also be justified on the grounds of merit," she says.

It would be wrong, on grounds of merit, for the most successful countries to have the same representation as, say, Latvia and Macedonia; but a maximum of two entrants each, together with a more equitable distribution of television revenue, would strike a fair balance.

The combined cuts in higher education and the proposed fee increases threaten our status as one of the great institutions of research and teaching in the world, but will also further undermine our ability to select students purely on grounds of merit, and not of wealth – an issue that is already of great concern to many of those who teach here.

Promotion on the grounds of merit and competency is essential to ensure the most capable reach senior managerial and leadership positions.

Because today Germany take on USA! USA!! USA!!! in the first match ever to be contested on the grounds of artistic merit.

John Carey, chair of the IMB committee, retorted - quite reasonably - that the judges were not commissars: "Our unanimous decision to award the prize to Ismail Kadare was made solely on grounds of literary merit".

If Philip K. Dick does not entirely convince on grounds of literary merit — and the books in question aren't quite his best material — then how about Graham Greene, who was pounding Benzedrine when he wrote his 1939 travel book about Mexico, "The Lawless Roads," and the novel that came out of his Mexican travels, "The Power and the Glory"?

The jury had first to decide whether or not the work tended 'to deprave and corrupt': if they concluded that it did, they must go on to consider whether its publication could be justified as being 'for the public good' on the grounds of its literary and other merits.

He has also emphasized that he finds common ground with Mr. Obama on education issues, especially on the question of merit pay for teachers.

It is uncertain whether this effort is merited on the grounds of one narrow kind of error; however we consider the benefits are far broader than the error that triggered the intervention in our case and recommend increased awareness and training in human factors to all health care teams.

A new aristocracy of merit is emerging.