In the short program, technical merit serves as the tie breaker; in the long program, presentation serves as the tie breaker.
The women in the programme expressed that the main motivator was to earn religious merit by serving their community; recognition by the community and improving health of the community were also mentioned.
Educating the public to the ills of secondhand smoke has great merit and serves an important function in society.
She was a pioneer before the word "feminist" existed, achieving her positions on merit and served as a role model for numerous generations of attorneys.
Scholar-officials loomed large on the Chinese political landscape, members of the cultural elite who, versed in calligraphy, philosophy, poetry and history, were appointed by merit to serve as government officials.
Of the enlisted, those who demonstrate merit and serve long enough are promoted to non-commissioned officer (NCO); they are the more senior enlisted members.
The ability to control the calcium phosphate phases that are going to form on the surfaces of the mat is another merit, which serves the means of forming a phase graded mat cross section.
At age twenty-three, he returned home with the title "Officer of Merit in Nanyang", serving as the master of documents under the administration of Governor Bao De (in office from 103 111).
The FC-43 calibration spectrum provides insight into several figures-of-merit and serves as the basis for all calibration procedures (e.g., calibration of ion transmission, mass accuracy, analyzer injection, advanced signal processing (ASP), and quadrupole isolation).
More to the point, perhaps only one or two other senators among the 100 now serving would merit a full-scale intellectual and political biography, which is the task that the British journalist Godfrey Hodgson has set himself in this lucid, engaging study of the life and career of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Senate's philosopher-king.
