Sentence examples for merits if from inspiring English sources

But what good are merits if you're not re-elected?

The board of Ryanair has yet to receive any offer, and will consider any offer on its merits, if and when an offer is made".

No matter how much any decision involving his brother is or isn't on the merits, if Mark is elected mayor, there is always going to be a cloud".

Itisam Akhtar, office manager for the Birmingham branches, said that each case would be judged on its merits: "If they've got a recent entry on their credit record, we need to look at that with a bit of caution.

"Art" is comic enough in the banter that starts off about the merits, if any, of the painting and leads to other more personal things that, in turn, lead to violent eruption.

An art initiate, for example, must create a sculpture that wins the approval of at least 20 players, who can vote on its merits if they happen upon it in their travels.

The comparison will gain some historical merit if Duke wins.

These conversations that are so "of the moment" will only have merit if they inspire change.

This argument would have merit if there was much evidence to support it.

The match has been going for over three and a half hours, so it seems merited if uncharacteristically human.

It is neither our fault nor our merit if we lived in a time when torture was a daily fact.