Sentence examples similar to merits election from inspiring English sources

Some Hall of Fame voters say Clemens and Bonds did enough before they are said to have used steroids to merit election.

His pitch is so understated — "I merit election based on my own record and based on my value system, which, I believe, reflects mainstream Texas values" — that the acerbic presence of Dave Beckwith in the campaign is a necessary complement.

While there were lawmakers who opposed the package on the merits, with Election Day just five weeks away, substantial numbers decided that to favor the bill would be to imperil their own political futures.

This is the first open, transparent, merit-based election in history.

He does not merit re-election.

First, voters must decide whether the sitting president has done a good enough job to merit re-election.

In my diplomatic career, I spent a great deal of time assessing the democratic merit of elections in various countries abroad.

Like many discussions about the merits of judicial elections, though, the article did not distinguish between partisan and nonpartisan elections.

Which only makes one wonder what the commission members were thinking last night in Brooklyn as they earnestly considered the merits of nonpartisan elections.

It is on the narrow question of whether the circumstances in this election merit a review that Florida's specific laws come into play.

Instead the Conservatives fought a rather half-hearted campaign for city mayors, organising referendums in ten cities on May 3rd, and sending various Tory bigwigs round the country to talk up the merits of direct elections.