Sentence examples for merit was that from inspiring English sources

As for Bush's speech, its principal merit was that it provided a pretext for Webb's.

I did it on the merits, and the main merit was that I owed Jack Quinn a favor that would make him a quick quarter-million bucks.

You don't have to be a Protestant to argue for this sort of view; you could say, as many do, that the Reformation's real merit was that it reduced the importance of religion in general, and ushered in a more rational world.

The comforting theory, which has some merit, is that Europe's slower growth reflects cultural preferences.

Its great merit is that it requires conformity only on the surface.

A second apparent merit is that whereas previous measures threatened intervention, the new model also offers support.

One of the wondrous and mysterious things about literary merit is that there is no right and wrong way to achieve it.

What makes Hong and Dunham artists of merit is that they both know this, and make it the subject of their films.

Hodgson's great merit is that, unlike the too-clever-by-half Benítez, he is a master at making things simple.

The result is a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and professional soldiers equally.

Its biggest merit is that it reflects a consensus of the country's main Shia Arab and Kurdish leaders, who speak for 80% of Iraqis and once seemed at loggerheads.