Firing Pruitt was seen among many of Trump's hard-line advisers as giving in to the left without merit.
Both had merit, particularly the balletic left foot adjustment effected by Orlandi to shape the ball past Rob Elliott for the opener.
His famous critique of the academic left had merit, but the problem today - as Bloom himself recognised - is his neoconservative champions.
The left arm merited a shilling less all round.
The collective and complementary functions of the left and right hippocampi merit further exploration in prospective studies of memory function and TLE.
Rustin was not a traitor, though -- even if his writings show that from time to time he grew a little ornery and declined to grant even the slightest merit to his critics on the left.
Well out into the centre-left, few politicians see merit in multiculturalism.
They will be ignored as long as they push ideas perceived as being on the left, regardless of the merits of the ideas.
After years of bitter squabbles over identity politics and the merits of the Clinton administration, the left appeared to have reclaimed its anti-corporate heritage and was growing.
And then the harsh words already leveled by critics on his left flank will have some merit.
