Sentence examples for issue of merit from inspiring English sources

Mr. Thompson alluded to the issue of merit pay, which has divided members of the board.

Among other subjects, the two men discussed the issue of merit pay for teachers -- which Mr. Giuliani strongly supports but Mr. Levy has expressed qualms about.

While the stalemate is technically about summer school, it is seen by many as a prelude to the larger struggle over the issue of merit pay in the year-round teachers' contract, which expires in November.

His goal, he said, was to get beyond the issue of merit pay and address the bigger problem -- recruiting an estimated 16,000 teachers for a mandatory summer school program that will begin in less than four months.

Rather, he confined his work to the issue of merit pay.

The decision means that the case, Perry v. Brown, is now moving from a legal detour — the question of who has the right under California law to appear in court on behalf of a proposition under legal challenge — to the issue of merits: does a legal ban on same-sex marriage violate constitutional rights?

But beyond issues of merit, "Blues Singer" has another significance: its reference to the earlier album.

Greger C. Andersen, the hospital's president and chief executive, said the union's focus on staffing was a tactic to distract from the "real issues" of merit pay and sick time.

The announcement that summer school enrollment will be capped at about 250,000 -- and limited to failing students only, not those seeking to graduate early -- comes after weeks of vociferous debate among Mr. Levy, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, over the issues of merit pay and financial incentives for summer school teachers.

Issues of merit aside, "The New Guard" amounted to a drop in a wide ocean; Billy Pidgeon, an analyst for the Internet research firm Jupiter Media Metrix, estimates that "hundreds if not thousands of people are picking up cameras and trying to become digital filmmakers".

These two options contain many issues of merit, including addressing the usage of mixed vendor network electronics within the same Ethernet network.