Sentence examples for merit the point from inspiring English sources

Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.

Everton, however, built on their midweek improvement against West Ham United in the FA Cup third round and merited the point they were given when Steven Naismith's glancing header put them level within four minutes of City's opener.

But in the crucial areas of education, health and welfare, the Blair government has not pushed its arguments about merit to the point of actual policy-making.

There isn't just one index of merit, and the point of admissions is not to bestow gold stars on people who've done well before, to predict the future.

Is the dark lady actually the poet Emilia Lanier, as the eccentric British scholar A. L. Rowse insisted (an identification that led to the discovery of Lanier as a poet of real merit, to the point that the feminist critics who revere her hesitate to mention the Shakespeare connection, for fear of Yoko-izing her)?

Simply: if you have to use someone else's name or authority to get a point across, there is little merit to the point (you might not believe it yourself).

To break it down into compositions of separate character and merit would miss the point.

Jerry Yang and his wife discuss over breakfast the merits of the points I bring up.

However, the study by Riddle et al. has the merit to point out again that the remnant hyperglycemia, which is frequently observed with insulin regimens using basal strategies or premixed insulins, should be combated by subtly combining basal with prandial insulins.

To dwell on questions of dramatic clarity or theatrical pacing or artistic merit would be beside the point.

Storey hit the crossbar from 25 yards later on and Inverness thoroughly merited the three points.