Sentence examples for measuring merit from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, it is still widely held, when it comes to measuring merit, that to be a leader is to be a male.

This fancy-pants plant earned top awards from the American Orchid Society, but while judges look for color vibrancy, splash petals, spots and different-colored lips, they don't measure merit with an orchidometer.

So if we are in favour of meritocracies, we should also be in favour of anything that helps us measure merit more accurately.

The problem is that multiple competitive money cults on every continent have been allowed to evolve asset markets into forms that elevate the value of growth capital over prudently measured merit.

The timing of investment results makes it challenging to measure merit-based performance year to year.

How does a society measure merit?

Certainly, the specific components of an average measure merit further debate and discussion.

The economic and disease burden of dengue in India is substantially more than captured by officially reported cases, and increased control measures merit serious consideration.

For the rest of the interview, he relaxes back in his chair; considers each question like a nightwatchman measuring the merits of each ball in the day's final over; he does not bristle but relaxes like a man with more international wickets than any other Englishman – dead or alive – and three successive Ashes victories to his name.

But there are other ways to measure teacher merit.

Some, like Branford High School, are dropping class rankings to encourage colleges to avoid using such shortcuts to measure the merit of a student.