As with Klout's role in the wider world, it's hard to decide whether there is really any merit to knowing about how influential a person is, but presumably if you are in a large enough work network that you don't know certain colleagues all that well, it can be a useful bridge to collaborating more closely with them in the future.
I have no doubt that these students would have been considered on their own merits, and knowing their parents, they would not allow them to coast or to slack off once they arrived at City Hall.
And the universities may use merit aid to attract them, knowing that even if these students get aid of $5,000 or more, they will still be paying more than their in-state counterparts.
We should have no hesitation to give it for John Dryden, in preference to Elkanah Settle, from the names only, without knowing their different merits".
"The defendants' claim that users are legally obligated to pay for their service lacks merit because consumers did not provide knowing consent to the installation of the relentless pop-up demands", he said.
Every woman in the Commons should be able to look every man in the Commons in the eye as an equal, knowing they got there on merit.
The illegitimacy to which Jesus calls us means living in the perpetual astonished perplexity of knowing that we are infinitely loved without merit.
Publishers say his book will include his thoughts on "topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England".
Instead of offering up a large merit scholarship, colleges may reject an over-qualified student altogether, knowing he or she is unlikely to enroll.
All these shows were desperately self-conscious and desperately anxious to establish their intellectual credentials, as if supposing that a plethora of knowing references to various aspects of culture must demonstrate artistic merit.
