If Congress reduce their wages to a trifle, what shall prevent the states from giving a man of merit so much as will be an adequate compensation?
Marini is a man of considerable merit, but he is also eighty years old, and as a candidate chosen through a back-room deal with Berlusconi he represented exactly the old-fashioned politics-as-usual that Bersani had promised to avoid.
A contemporary writer, Bede, praised Bosa as a man of "singular merit and sanctity".
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.
He probably merited the man-of-the-match award, although I don't suppose a mere ref will ever qualify for such preferment.
And so the cycle continues, with brilliant women floundering in their careers, overtaken by men not as a result of merit, but as a result of a shrewd cost decision.
David Axelrod, the president's chief campaign strategist, calls it "Orwellian" that Mr. Romney, the son of a wealthy business executive and prominent politician, would style himself the champion of "merit" against a man who reached the White House after being raised by a single mother.
The right of Nash to be selected, after all, was what exactly what CLR James worked for; to enable all men who merit it, regardless of skin colour, to have equal opportunity of selection.
God wills that all men be saved … God also hopes that men will merit outstanding degrees of glory: His will is our sanctification" (OM, 5 183).
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's.
