Sentence examples for merit against from inspiring English sources

They condemned those who would pursue a "morally wrong" case that is "without merit" against this aging tycoon.

One new principle is that members of the board should be selected "on merit, against objective criteria, and with due regard for the benefits of diversity, including gender diversity".

It will also come as a disappointment to Foster and Rogers, whose practices continue to work on the designs but have been battling to preserve their artistic merit against bureaucratic meddling and infighting.

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 BITC report called for ethnicity to be added to the UK corporate governance code, which sets out standards of good practice and states: "The search for board candidates should be conducted, and appointments made, on merit, against objective criteria and with due regard for the benefits of diversity on the board, including gender".

Despite gradual liberalisation over the course of the 20th century, helped when the Obscene Publications Act finally allowed a defence of artistic merit against charges of obscenity, by the 1990s Britain still had far more stringent censorship than countries such as Germany or Denmark.

People are weighing a trip's merits against its emotional cost.

"All applications are processed as soon as we reasonably can and each is carefully considered on its merits against the published criteria".

Does it mean you need to consider every single extension of the government, weigh their ethical merits against your own and then decide whether you still support the idea of living in America?

Some iterative adaptive grid generators, developed by the author, are numerically explored in detail to assess their relative merits against conventional grid generators, based on a direct method of integration and interpolation.

But as the company looks to pull together its cloud services and consolidate features across platforms, a cloud-based component of Xbox Music could definitely add a whole lot of appeal for users weighing its merits against competing services from Google and Amazon.