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Honorees do not have to be American citizens but must simply merit the award in the view of the President, advisors and the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board (established in 1957 by President Eisenhower and expanded by President Kennedy).
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More likely, however, China simply sees merit in the old saw that possession is nine-tenths of the law.
And Marche's claim that "Canada has become ungovernable, entering a period of Italian-style instability" is simply without merit.
Also interesting, to us, is simply how Merit is structured, which is as a self-funded nonprofit.
"This frivolous lawsuit is simply without merit," Uber spokeswoman Eva Behrend said in a statement.
The assumption you make that the Attorney General's Guidelines were ignored is simply without merit and nothing could be further from the truth".
This logic is so acceptable that we are not even supposed to notice it; as long as the person is white, everyone pretends that the decision to welcome them was simply about merit and that "race" had nothing to do with it.
"When you hand one person a position of power over someone else ― a position that they did not earn based on competency or merit but simply because of some attribute or descriptor they were assigned at birth ― that power will inevitably be used for the person in power's benefit".
This is not a ranking on merit, but simply an order of presentation to drive the mate allocation part: The first ranked male mating is the single mating of male 3 and it is thus allocated to the first available female mating (the one nearest to the left) - the only mating of female 1.
It simply did not merit the same response.
But the blameless victims of climatic variation simply did not merit attention, said Michael Glantz, a political scientist who has studied the famine and its lasting impact.
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