I see the security issues but wonder if this really merits the time it's being given in the media.
"It really merits a recount," Mr. Holub said.
Despite Simon Winchester's best efforts to establish a link between Krakatoa in 1883, an abortive Islamist uprising in 1888 and the end of Dutch rule in 1949, Krakatoa simply cannot compare.There is a temptation, then, to charge Mr Winchester with trying to make more out of Krakatoa in his new book than it really merits.
Each term really merits an analysis of its own; on terminology see at least Jolivet 2006: 217–227; Bertolacci 2003, 2012c).
There were "good reasons why people are sceptical about whether Britain really merits a top 10 ranking", he wrote on its website.
Well, there might be a conversation to be had here about the relationship between art and commerce, and whether a piece of music is still valid if it has been paid for by a sponsor, but I'm not sure the above really merits that.
The problem is that this requires far more work than the dish really merits, and the meat becomes cold while you prepare the sauce.
But there are good reasons why people are sceptical about whether Britain really merits a top-ten ranking: overseas bribery by UK companies, the laundering of corrupt money through the City, the lax regulation and lack of transparency in British-controlled tax havens, to say nothing of corruption scandals here in the UK.
This joke, beyond being a shameless pitch for the paternity testing industry, squares nicely with common notions of who really merits the designation "the weaker sex," and who is stolid in the face of pain and illness, and who greets the slightest sore throat or strained muscle with all the heigh-ho fortitude of an old Leonard Cohen album.
This is not an argument, and there is nothing going on here that really merits being called inference.
