Sentence examples for principal merit from inspiring English sources

The principal merit of "Hallelujah Junction" was contrast.

As for Bush's speech, its principal merit was that it provided a pretext for Webb's.

The principal merit of ATM was that the promising infeasible individuals could be inherited into the next evolutionary process.

Compared to other models from the literature (e.g. McDougall and Hungr, 2004), the GeoFlow_SPH model has the principal merit to explicitly introduce the hydro-mechanical coupling between the solid skeleton and interstitial (pore water) pressure, the latter one being variable within space and time.

The principal merit of the book is that young physicians can rapidly find up-to-date practical information.

The principal merit of this approach is that gene concatenation allows for the minimization of statistical errors, often resulting in well-supported trees (Delsuc et al. 2005).

Indeed, one of the principal merits of this approach, as the White House no doubt understands, is that it gives congressional Republicans fits.

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.

Westley describes the U21 League as "a small step" to bridge the gulf, its principal merits organisational; the games are staged at the weekends to complement a first-team schedule, and the league is national, not regional, as was the now-scrapped reserve league.

In the past decade, a reform movement financed by some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropists has put forward entrepreneurial approaches: charter schools, business-style accountability for teachers and principals, and merit bonuses for top performers.

The evidence linking improved teacher or principal performance with merit pay is murky, concedes Tim Knowles, an Emanuel education adviser who runs the estimable Urban Education Institute.