The phrase "meritorious contributions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that deserves to be recognized and honored. For example, "His meritorious contributions to the field of medical research have been highly praised throughout the scientific community."
Since 1962, the award has been presented to one person annually for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing".
Mark Singer on Roger Angell, who travelled to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing".
In 1997, the day before he turned 94, he was named winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.
Mr. Lang was honored by the Hall of Fame in 1986 with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing".
For his courage and patriotism, Mr. Felt should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for exceptionally meritorious contributions to national security interests of the United States".
Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing," presented annually by the members of the Baseball Writers Association of Americaa during induction weekend at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The medal is given to individuals who have "made an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace or cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".
That was his "meritorious contribution" to American life.
Another meritorious contribution is the synthetic strategy realizing a more direct, eco-friendly and efficient utilization way of cellulose resource, which avoided pollutions from cellulose purification or pretreatment.
The award is for individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".
Driven by a declared "moral imperative" to protect Utah wilderness and prevent further contributions to climate change, Tim DeChristopher's act was nothing less, as the Medal of Freedom recognizes, than "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States".
