Sentence examples for how much merit from inspiring English sources

There are numbers that are being thrown around, but I don't know how much merit they have.

When Emperor Wu of Liang showed the Indian sage Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of the Zen sect, around the temples he had built and asked him hopefully how much merit he had thereby accumulated, the Indian replied, "No merit, none at all".

Such a graph provides alternative solutions to the breeder, who then can balance how much merit (s)he is prepared to sacrifice to maintain diversity.

The designer, who won the British Fashion Council/Vogue award this year, proved how much he merited the accolade.

The question is how much he merits the mercy — if not a bit of gratitude, for giving us that early, elusive taste of reconciliation before post-racial was cool.

How much was the merits, and how much was it the motive?

One can reasonably debate how much blame he merits for all of that, but there are simply no meaningful "peace" accomplishment in his record -- at least not yet -- and there's plenty of the opposite.

How much consideration did he merit?

When a degree is something you buy with money rather than something you earn based on merit, how much weight can it realistically carry?

To make matters worse, we desperately want the world to be fair, which means that our view of how much credit or blame people merit is disproportionately affected by outcomes.

That is, even if there were no reason to prefer the Darwinian Hypothesis to the Design Hypothesis, the mere fact that the Design Hypothesis was no longer the only potential explanation in the field tends to erode (to some extent at least) how much credence the Design Hypothesis merits on the basis of the relevant considerations.