Sentence examples for merits themselves from inspiring English sources

Within minutes, the justices were ignoring Rosenthal's inane responses and arguing the merits themselves, leading Chief Justice William Rehnquist to suggest that "maybe we should go through counsel".

So Mr. Lelouch, angered by what he called a "lynching," decided to let the moviegoers decide the film's merits themselves, The Associated Press reported.

The generals appear to want some merit themselves by beginning talks about democracy, and perhaps even by releasing political prisoners.The United Nations announced this week, with Myanmar's blessing, that contact had been made between the military men and the leader of the country's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Nobody considered whether they had merit in themselves.

Certainly there could be some useful changes in the way Turkey deals with refugees, and some of the demands apparently being put forward by Turkey, such as visa-free travel for its citizens, have some merit in themselves.

Her merits speak for themselves and she's an amazing addition to our current panel.

Mr. Betts (who had not discussed the merits of the stamps themselves) had to laugh.

Or do they expect papers to decide for themselves what merits attention?

Without ample descriptions of the unnamed sources, readers couldn't know who was speaking and could not judge for themselves the merits of what was said.

Schmidt countered: "Given the serious nature of these allegations, I wanted to ensure that people have the facts so they can judge the merits of the case themselves".

While the architecture of the 1931 International Colonial Exposition ["Colonial Fantasies: When the Empire Has No Clothes" by Herbert Muschamp, June 25] is long gone, visitors to Paris can still judge for themselves the merits of the "colonial" artworks that were exhibited there.