There was no debate over the union's longstanding opposition to merit pay, salaries based on evaluations by administrators or evaluations based on students' test scores.
Nevertheless, systematic comparisons of these approaches have been sporadic and there remains a longstanding debate over the relative merits of such methods.
Nor is the IMF selection procedure based on merit, but on a longstanding gentlemen's agreement, which decrees that the IMF has to be run by a discarded European politician, while an American must head the World Bank.
Faced with a longstanding cultural war over the relative merits of basic research versus applied research, Stelson emphasized the importance of both.
Caterpillar, which is based in Peoria, Ill., said the allegations had no merit and the company had "longstanding policies prohibiting harassment and discrimination".
For this reason and because the biosemantic program hereafter, simply biosemantics—is an unexpected and fascinating extension of evolutionary biology to a longstanding problem in philosophy of mind, it merits a close look.
Those transactions, together with other evidence that has emerged in Italy's case against Ms. True and Mr. Hecht, put growing pressure on the Met to abandon its longstanding position that Italy's grievances were without merit.
(Mr. Medici is appealing his conviction). Those transactions, together with other evidence that has emerged in Italy's case against Ms. True and Mr. Hecht, put growing pressure on the Met to abandon its longstanding position that Italy's grievances were without merit.
China's robust, longstanding ties with Pakistan stand on their own merits, he says, and owe nothing to America's standing in Pakistan.
More citations should theoretically indicate higher impact on the scientific community, although there is a longstanding and passionate debate taking place on the merits of the IF as a measurement of quality [8] [10].
There is a longstanding debate in corporate law and governance over the merit of competition for corporate laws.
