In 1969, the South African Cricket Board of Control (SACBOC) announced that future teams would be racially integrated and selected purely on merit; efforts duly began to allow all races to compete against each other and share facilities.
No cause could better merit this effort.
Low-active participants in particular reported that it was important that such rewards were provided on the merit of effort and not just to those who excelled at particular sports: "You got points for putting the effort into it, like even if you're not the best person that you still tried your best.
Sarkozy said appointing her sent a message "to all the children of France that with merit and effort everything becomes possible".
People like rags-to-riches stories, wanting to think everyone has a fair chance to rise by merit and effort – even when it's patently not so.
But several theatre productions have left me concerned that the phenomenon of throwing talent and money at scripts that don't merit the effort and expense is also becoming a significant problem on stage.
You can hike up to Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu, on a 1,500-metre 1,500-metreutside Mae Hong Son, is strenuous, but the two shimmering chedi speaks and justdroutsideview Maee tHongmerit the effort.
Singling out Poland as a source of extradition requests, he said that the increase in cases was placing increasing strain on the system and "a disproportionate amount of time is expended in cases which do not merit the effort".
And, while the Huffington Post has successfully positioned itself as the place where progressive politicians and Hollywood liberal luminaries post their anti-Bush Administration sentiments, many of the original blog posts that it publishes do not merit the effort of even a mouse click.
In our opinion, quantitative assessments of fuel treatment effects on fire severity in frequent-fire forest types hardly merit further effort.
A shift in perception was taking place in the collective from a belief that success was a function of merit and effort to a recognition that the system was rigged.
