Liberal interventionists, if you recall, were people like myself for whom the sight in the 1990s of hundreds of thousands of European Muslims processed through Serbian concentration camps, or killed in them, left little doubt of the merits, indeed the necessity, of U.S. military action in the name of the human dignity that only open societies afford.
But, from the earliest times, many Pali texts have certainly had such merit; indeed, they include some of the earliest examples of the sophisticated artistry known in Sanskrit as kavya (Pali: kabba or kaveyya).
It is the burden of the Government, in opposing an attempted criminal appeal in forma pauperis, to show that the appeal is lacking in merit, indeed, that it is so lacking in merit that the court would dismiss the case on motion of the Government, had the case been docketed and a record been filed by an appellant able to afford the expense of complying with those requirements.
This view may have some merit (indeed, the same can be said of philosophy of dance), but Sparshott goes so far as to say that criticism is entirely worthless for understanding dance; that it "is not a discipline" and as such does not mark any distinctive area for dance understanding (1995, 338).
Although hiring for the highly coveted jobs is supposed to be based solely on merit – indeed, 95% of applicants are rejected – an improbably large number of sons and other relatives of current and former firefighters got jobs, including some who failed key elements of the exams.
@petergnz, meanwhile, wanted Sherman to discuss the economic merits (if indeed there are any) of Kim Dotcom's Megabox concept.
It seems to me her approach stems from a recognition by Whitehead supporters of just how weak the case for Whitehead is - it cannot stand on its own merits, and, indeed, it cannot.
These results confirm that predicting an individual's genetic merit is indeed harder, especially if predicting the genetic merit of a preselected set of individuals, i.e., seeds from the selected landraces.
Then, as now, people of merit were indeed chosen for official service.
Microsoft executives said yesterday that the suits were "without merit". And indeed, as the Federal District Court in Washington begins considering these lawsuits, the Justice Department and the states will need to overcome ambiguities in the antitrust laws that could work to the company's advantage.
Young Socrates' division into the herding of humans and the herding of other animals seems in retrospect to have considerable merit and indeed to apply two lessons from earlier in the day (cf. § 6.1 above).
