Sentence examples for meritorious by from inspiring English sources

Producers may well have wanted to acknowledge the importance of black culture to American life and have thought they were doing something meritorious by merely showing white and black performers together.

Is the fact that Silicon Valley billionaires are almost all white men a sign that white men are more meritorious by nature, or is a more likely explanation that they get the opportunities to succeed where others don't?

Thus, several meritorious works by medieval Islamic mathematicians were inspired by their study of Archimedes.

Lincoln's responses to what Douglass identified as his primary concerns — the inequitable pay for black soldiers, the need for retaliation against Confederate policies toward black troops and the need for policies guaranteeing promotion for meritorious service by black troops — cannot have been immediately reassuring to the abolitionist.

The medal was founded in 1917 and was awarded for "meritorious" actions by civilians or military personnel, although the recipients did not attend a royal investiture.

The long encyclical ignores the causes of global climate change: it is an externality, an unintended negative consequence of otherwise meritorious activity by producers producing the goods and services people want, and consumers using those goods and services.

Is it earned by meritorious works or granted by the obscure operations of grace?

The good news is that America doesn't need to become anything like a Singapore, or China for that matter, to realize what many voters imply they want -- reforms to the current process of selecting political leaders to ensure political decisions are made only by suitably qualified citizens and political office held only by meritorious candidates.

Merit is that which is produces by meritorious action (karma).

After letting slip a three-goal lead at Stamford Bridge, Darlington won the replay 4 1 after extra time, described as "a most meritorious win, earned by a combination of sound tactics and an enthusiasm that Chelsea never equalled" by The Times correspondent, who felt it "surprising that extra time was necessary, for Darlington always seemed to have the match well in hand".

Senate Democrats and a few Republicans had been responsibly holding out, insisting that any tax cuts, no matter how meritorious, be paid for by raising other revenues or by spending cuts.