Sentence examples for question of merit from inspiring English sources

This play been pre-empting Little Theatre for weeks by weight of money and without question of merit.

He has also emphasized that he finds common ground with Mr. Obama on education issues, especially on the question of merit pay for teachers.

Once again, the specious question of merit versus positive discrimination has raised its ugly head, with John Whittingdale, chair of the Commons' culture select committee warning prime minister David Cameron to appoint "whoever is the best person", rather than, as has been reported, pushing for a female candidate for the job.

In addressing the question of merit and cultural capital during the early tracking, it has been illustrated that, while young people in Amsterdam are tracked into the vocational track in higher numbers, the respondents attributed their streaming outcomes to the national test scores rather than their own motivation or their families' preferences.

Leaving aside the not small question of literary merit, all these fabricated memoirs are essentially one, or perhaps twelve, steps removed from self-help.

The question of whether merit pay discourages teachers from working with low achievers is, along with the possibility of educators' cheating or using other tricks to raise test scores, at the root of the debate over financial incentive plans.

In an essay about the work of the Nobel prize-winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész, his English translator Tim Wilkinson quotes a letter from a publisher, politely refusing Wilkinson's offer of a translation: "It's certainly not a question of the merit of the work being insufficient, but simply a keen awareness of the difficulties involved in introducing a new European writer to the UK market".

In a minute, I'll get into what's wrong with it, but the question of its merits goes beyond this one movie into an overall consideration of the general mediocrity of many foreign-film releases (or, rather, of the choices of foreign films to release).

However, according to Luo and Bhattacharya (2009) the question of the merits of CSR still lingers.

Protecting the Sagrada Familia is an issue that extends beyond questions of architectural merit, though.

They debated questions of artistic merit and the role of the artist vis-a-vis technology: Is iPhone art "real"?