Sentence examples for meritoriousness from inspiring English sources

He believed too in the superiority of Greek culture and in the meritoriousness and providential character of the Roman Empire.

He respected the role of the woman in life and attributed the redemption of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage to the meritoriousness of women of that generation.

The Hazare movement has since petered out, but its central idea, of the unique meritoriousness of the middle and upper classes of India, remains.

I live and teach in New York, where I've seen among my students (mostly white, just as elites in India tend to be mostly upper caste) and in the Occupy Wall Street movement an elite that has suddenly been forced to examine its notions of unique meritoriousness and endless prosperity.

Legal positivism requires only that it be in virtue of its facticity rather than its meritoriousness that something is law, and that we can describe that facticity without assessing its merits.

With no act having intrinsic worth, the meritoriousness of human behavior was grounded in a covenant between God and the human faithful.