On December 26th, while survivors of the disaster surveyed the wreckage of their lives, Mr Khamenei found time to extol at length the merits of making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
The cover letter should indicate why the additional length is merited.
We discussed at length the relative merits of adoption versus a breeder.
Other lowlights included a subpar day four of the fourth Test, and declaiming at length on the merits of Chris Rogers as a dancer.
Mr. Jacobs's tendency to go off on intellectual tangents or argue at length about the merits of seemingly obscure statistical minutiae can make him seem better suited for lecturing on engineering topics than running a company that has surpassed Motorola, America's other wireless titan, in market value -- $55.6 billion as of Friday, compared with Motorola's $50.9 billion.
It is good to have my son's chocolate-stained face beside me, and, as the guide drones on, he tells me, at length, the relative merits of Sky Digital and Sky Plus, along with the virtues of High Definition TV.
The absence of any effect of an initial assessment of risk on length of stay merits some comment.
Have a look at the Cuomo letter and the reply here (posted as a separate document because of its length) and judge the merits of her argument.
He talked at great length about the relative merits of Metallica, Megadeth, and Aerosmith before mentioning that he had travelled to Moscow in 1995 to see a performance by Deep Purple — his favorite group by far.
He showed me the cover of the album that was currently rattling the windows of the house, "1000 Percent Metal Ballads.'' He talked at great length about the relative merits of Metallica, Megadeth, and Aerosmith before mentioning that he had travelled to Moscow in 1995 to see a performance by Deep Purple — his favorite group by far.
