"We reject the district court's conclusion that SunTrust has established its likelihood of success on the merits," the court said in its opinion.
Yale SOM has established two merit scholarships for students in each entering MBA class.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose state ranks first in the nation in ACT scores, has established a merit-pay system for teachers.
Research has established that the perception of scientific merit is affected by past performance—such as association with high-ranking departments or institutions and previous funding and publication records and by access to organizational resources (12).
"Apple has established a strong case on the merits," she said.
Last Friday, a State Supreme Court justice, Richard B. Meyer, granted a stay of most of the agency's enforcement actions, and wrote in his decision that "the petitioner has established a likelihood of success on the merits on at least some issues raised".
The UK government has established a working party to investigate the merits of UCG, undoubtedly excited by the vast resources of coal sitting under the North Sea.
But Baroness Scotland, as a Home Office minister in 2005, promised Parliament that "belief" would not be frivolously interpreted; a body of British and European law had established that to merit legal protection, a belief must meet robust criteria.
Specifically, he said the state would probably revisit a Senate bill vetoed by Gov. Charlie Crist that would have established merit-based pay for teachers.
By Richard Harris The New Yorker, October 1, 1973 P. 29 "No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
"No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.
