Sentence examples for previous merits from inspiring English sources

By Richard Harris The New Yorker, October 1, 1973 P. 29 "No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.

"No well-ordered republic should ever cancel the crimes of its citizens by their merits; but, having established reward for good actions and penalties for evil ones, and having rewarded a citizen for good conduct who afterwards commits a wrong, it should chastise him for that wrong without regard to his previous merits.

In the present study of depressed outpatients, the prevalence of melancholic features was substantially higher (67.1%) than previous estimates, and merits further comment.

During the rise of affirmative action, their overall academic standards generally increased, for students and faculty alike, so it didn't look as if they were abandoning a previous commitment to merit.

McNamara believes that although their previous camp had merit, the move will help give his team the best possible chance of victory against the Kiwis, the top-ranked international team in the world who defeated England in the semi-finals of the World Cup two years ago.

Whereas their criticisms had some merit, previous orthodox Neo-Confucians such as Hayashi Razanhad insisted that the Confucian usage of terms such as "stillness" and "calmness" meant something profoundly different from what was meant by Buddhists and Daoists.

Where Tobin will serve is also important: Newark, New Jersey, a city that no previous Pope felt merited a cardinal.

The reversed increasing trends in outpatient breast cancer surgery in 2000 and 2001 from those in the previous period may merit special policy attention.

These inconsistencies may arise from methodological differences (e.g. varying pre-fixation time with impact on phosphorylation states) [ 30], or the limited number of cases included in previous studies and merit further evaluation.

With her inauguration in January 1975 she became the first woman to serve as governor of Connecticut and the first woman to hold a state governorship solely on her own merits (all previous women governors had been wives of former governors).

The 3P++ analysis has three merits over previous methods.