Instead, she has been slogging through cinematic heavy weather as if to prove merit that was already brightly apparent.
But the desire to prove merit and win — a $50,000 prize, no less — didn't deter Qui, a bright fortune hunter, from tanking in front of the judges just so she could publicly pillory Sarah C., whom she hates.
If someone was to succeed his unofficial position of power, they were going to have to earn it through their own publicly proven merits.
But the presented study was not designed to confirm the already experimentally [ 27] and clinically [ 28] proven merits of therapeutic hypothermia by cooling down the animals to a predefined temperature.
Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who has worked for McCain, has called Saunders's approach "one-third true, two-thirds hokum," but Saunders's methods have proven merit.
This place has a list of awards as long as your arm to prove its merits.
"Half of me — and I say this with an asterisk attached — wishes I had the opportunity to prove my merits from the start," he went on.
Their departures leave the team with little experience inside besides Kenrick Ellis, a third-round pick in 2011 who has yet to prove he merits a starting job.
Opponents of earmarks say the ban is forcing communities to prove the merits of projects rather than depend on their Congressional representatives to bring home money year after year.
The two banks had hoped that by helping arrange Enron's rescue they could prove the merits of their strategy of providing both loans and advice in the merger business.
There may even be hope around the corner for a litter-free Glastonbury as a number of festivals in the UK are starting to prove the merits of the cup deposit concept, which is already commonplace in bars and events in Germany.
