Sentence examples for personal merits from inspiring English sources
ARE members of the House of Commons elected purely as individuals on their personal merits, or as the interchangeable representatives of a political party?
Another 120 are to be "independent" of party politics, chosen on their personal merits by an independent cross-party appointments commission.
The idea behind Social Security is not just that old folks should be entitled to comfort regardless of their personal merits.
Whatever their personal merits, people are always asking whether they can inherit the mantle of the legend that has gone before: for the Argentinians, Maradona, for the Scots, Billy Connolly.
In a stark illustration of France's nonchalance about perceived conflicts of interest, most debate on the subject has revolved around the personal merits of Mr Niel, who first made his money from chat lines and sex shops.A second reading is that Le Monde's troubles reflect those of the newspaper business at large, which seem particularly acute in France.
They were ranked in a definite genealogical order according to their relative seniority, and, in the course of filling the highest posts in his army and administration, the tsar had to consider not so much the candidate's personal merits as his genealogical seniority as defined by earlier precedents.
Kohlberg identifies two of these justice operations: "equality," which involves an impartial regard for persons, and "reciprocity," which means a regard for the role of personal merit.
Such variations in income defy all attempts to relate them to variations in personal merit.
Victory depends upon a fickle combination of personal merit, political strategizing and the skillful application of flattery.
Edgar was a generous benefactor of the church; a contemporary historian (St. Aelred of Rievaulx) called him the equal of Edward the Confessor in personal merit.
Franklin writes that political "victory depends upon a fickle combination of personal merit, political strategizing and the skillful application of flattery".
