Sentence examples for like merit from inspiring English sources

Each tended to collect rare and difficult interventions like merit badges.

The same cannot be said of fuzzier concepts like merit and accountability.

Any change in teachers' employment conditions, like merit pay, requires union consent, she said.

We disagree on much, including big issues like merit pay for teachers and the best strategies for school choice.

That crass bargain seems a poor substitute for the usual considerations in admissions decisions, like merit and diversity.

She rejects stick-and-carrot incentives like merit pay — "the idea that never works and never dies," and that undermines the spirit of collaboration by pitting teacher against teacher.

Because while the local dining scene has become a postmodern mosaic of three-star food trucks and strip-mall Alain Passards, Mélisse, the land of the $145 tasting menu, has always been the kind of special-occasion restaurant Michelin likes, meriting two stars in the last Los Angeles guide.

"He can say, 'I'd like individual merit pay, but I know it's a nonstarter, so let's come together on a group plan,' " suggested Mark Green, the public advocate, referring to merit pay for the faculties of entire schools rather than for individual teachers.

Another quirk: 1,600 employees are civil service workers, making concepts like merit-based promotion a bit foreign.

Several people felt Christopher Walken's portrayal of the horseman – his face enhanced with pale makeup and vampire-like teeth – merited inclusion.

I like to see merit credited, and your industry, accomplishment, and skill all do you credit.