Sentence examples for idea of merit from inspiring English sources

His first administration merely promoted the idea of merit - important enough in its time.

The idea of merit pay is a good one: teachers should be paid more for teaching better.

California could have tied grants to test scores, but the idea of merit has become an elitist notion.

"We will not entertain the idea of merit pay as a condition for a new contract," he said.

I have also written at length about the history of the idea of merit in "Measuring the Mind" (Cambridge University Press), in case anybody is interested.

And so when Abbott talks about "merit", I cannot help but wonder about the criteria his idea of merit is based upon.

In this new epoch, when all music is created equal, sweeping ideas of merit that place Timberlake below Thom Yorke are increasingly redundant.

And first no doctrine in my opinion can meet contemporary needs, which finds the meaning of the atonement in the triumph of Christ over cosmic powers of evil such as Satan, sin, and death, to which man is subject". 5. Knudson, "View of Atonement," pp. 55-56: "One [objection] is the abstract, mechanical, and impersonal way in which it deals with the ideas of merit, guilt, and punishment.

Write down every idea regardless of merit and filter them later.

Tories may have given up on many things (death wishes for example) but the idea of competitive merit is still basic to the Conservative party.

Directors are often great critics, but not necessarily of their own work, because their experience of the process of making a film may distort their idea of its merit.