Sentence examples for merits merit from inspiring English sources

There are whole classes of wine way above that price whose merits merit such tabs; which merits can be objectively assessed by members of the vinous Fourth Estate — a.k.a. the Estate Bottled — honest fellows all, who never allow ourselves to be swayed by a wine's cost — because we never have to foot the bill.

Although "Commander in Chief," the new ABC series starring Geena Davis as the first woman President, is a hit on its own merits (merits that include a satisfying element of soap opera), it may get an extra shot of ratings oxygen from the country's growing curiosity about a certain woman senator — curiosity about whether she will run for President and whether there's a chance that she could win.

Amongst others, all members of the Privy Council are entitled to supporters in their arms, as are the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate, Companions of the Order of Canada, Commanders of the Orders of Military Merit, Merit of the Police Forces, and of the Royal Victorian Order.

Bills should be debated on merit, and merit alone.

Q. Merit pay. A. Yeah, merit pay.

And by equal merit I mean no merit.

We would judge applications on their merits and their merits alone," he wrote.

Honestly, those blokes don't just earn their merit - sometimes they get merit thrust down their throats!

They call it writing — the ability to distribute their thinking in the kinds of sentences that have a merit, even a literary merit, of their own.

I did it on the merits, and the main merit was that I owed Jack Quinn a favor that would make him a quick quarter-million bucks.

I contended that there was no such thing as intrinsic merit and that merit could be calculated only in relation to those factors the policy of blind submission forbids us from considering.