Sentence examples for projects merit from inspiring English sources

At Oxford, Flyvbjerg directs a program that teaches megaproject managers how to make cost-benefit forecasts more accurate, but accurate budgets alone won't clarify which projects merit approval.

"No more political muscle trumping project merit.

"Just like with earmarks, political muscle will too often outweigh project merit," Ms. Alexander said.

They said that an investigator's connections with the right bureaucrats matter more than project merit, especially for million-dollar-plus megaprojects.

We hope thus to provide a small contribution to the project identified by De Vries in 2003, that " [t]wo features of the bioethical project merit the immediate attention of sociologists of bioethics: the form and substance of the field" [ 23].

Setting aside whether these projects have merit, a supplemental spending request to deal with a current crisis is not the appropriate vehicle to propose new spending projects.

They say such a bank would spur innovation by allowing a panel of experts to approve projects on merit, rather than having lawmakers simply steer transportation money back home.

Such projects have merit, but environmental protection is a long-term cause that requires institutional infrastructure and programs to ensure that economic growth decisions will not compromise environmental quality.

We cannot afford to fund every project of merit from our budget".

If scientists determine that this project has merit, this legislation will allow it to proceed responsibly.

Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, told reporters that the project "has merit".