The novel's merits lie elsewhere.
Its principal merits lay in the avoidance of any reliance on causal concepts and in the ability to give an account of explanation in areas of theoretical science in which talk of causation seems strained.
Bb9's merits lie in its ability to prompt critical reflection as a response to its grotesque depiction of the post-contemporary.
More or less a commonplace book whose merit lies in its capacity to offer random delight rather than coherent argument, "The Tao of Travel" is as likely to land you with Pico Iyer as Emily Dickinson, Samuel Johnson as Bronislaw Malinowski.
For Gaels like Ishbel Maclennan, the film's great merit lies in its celebration of Gaelic as a living language and its depiction of young people and their connection to the language.
In the Novelas ejemplares (1613; "Exemplary Tales"), Cervantes claimed to be the first to write novelas (short stories in the Italian manner) in Spanish, differentiating between narratives that interest for their action and those whose merit lies in the mode of telling.
The true story of a sister, Betty Anne Waters, who trained for 15 years to be a lawyer to get her white trash brother off a life sentence for a false murder rap using DNA testing, its only merit lies in the strength of these two fine actors' meaty performances.
He believes political merit lies in action, not demeanour.
Also here the model was proved to be efficiently simulated on a standard quantum computer (Freedman, Kitaev, Wang 2000, Aharonov et al. 2005), but its merit lies in its high tolerance to errors resulting from any possible realization of a large scale quantum computer (see below).
While the bill has some pronounced weaknesses that need to be amended, such as assigning schools the Herculean task of delineating and defining any and all types of infractions that might occur, its merit lies in its attempt at some return to flexibility and good judgment over blind adherence to ineffective rules.
