Sentence examples for meritorious men from inspiring English sources

He met with him at the White House three times and once told a colleague that he considered Douglass among the nation's "most meritorious men".

In the family circle, then, the bust was a double portrait, of a meritorious man with (a copy of) his own portrait of a creature that had taken only the first steps.

He submitted that it is more meritorious for man to believe in God's existence by faith informed with love than to reach certainty by deductive reasoning.

The original Victoria Cross was created by Queen Victoria in 1856 to recognise incidents of gallantry that were unconnected with a man's lengthy or meritorious service.

There was a growing feeling among the public and in the Royal Court that a new award was needed to recognise incidents of gallantry that were unconnected with a man's lengthy or meritorious service.

Yet Arnauld also assumed that the man's decision, like any meritorious act of will, was free.

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?

He was a naval veteran of World War II and received the Meritorious Service Award.

"Well, that's fine, but how come there are more men with merit than women?" she continued, adding mockingly, "It seems that men are far more meritorious, you know".

In another late text, he adds that if God did not cause human beings to will freely, He would not be causing them to act in a meritorious way: "But what Scripture, the Fathers, and reason itself say about the power of God over the wills of men, assumes that He makes them will in a manner that is conformed to their nature, which is to will freely.

"I believe he must have meant meritorious.