Sentence examples for sole merit from inspiring English sources

At first glance Mr Löscher's outsider status seemed to be his sole merit as the boss of Europe's largest engineering firm.A re-engineering jobWithin a few months he had completely reshaped the company's management structure.

THE French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, whose retrospective opens Sunday at the National Gallery of Art, said that the "sole merit" of his portraits was "likeness" -- his busts looked like their subjects.

I suspect that Houdon (1741-1828), a cunning businessman and self-promoter, was being coy: he couldn't think likeness was the sole merit of his portraiture, because it wasn't.

Unusually, I'd like to call attention to a movie I haven't seen, on the sole merit of its subject: the last days of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which he spent toiling in frustration in Hollywood.

Compounding the challenge further was the fact that Johnson fundamentally disagreed with the way Gen. William Westmoreland was conducting the war in Vietnam, emphasizing large operations in the deep jungles and using enemy body count as the sole measure of merit while neglecting pacification efforts and the improvement of South Vietnamese forces.

He won a Nobel prize but by what transparent standard is a committee of the Swedish academy the sole arbiter of intellectual merit, or itself unswayed by beliefs and world views?

Even electoral campaigns aren't allowed -- the system is designed to make personal merit the sole determinant in voting.

Student upset is to be expected, as several students likely chose to attend The Cooper Union for financial reasons; the school's founder Peter Cooper looked to admit students on the sole admission criteria of merit.

Benefiting from the co-merits of sole constitute, the obtained NCNT/CNF1-15 (1–15 refers to the mass ratio) complexes possessed a typical three-dimensional architecture and much increased specific surface area, which facilitated reactant/electrolyte infiltration and ion/electron transfer.

Ms Mogherini, who has served as Italy's foreign minister for barely six months, would probably not have won the job had merit been the sole consideration, but her appointment may say more about big countries' determination to retain control over crunchy foreign-policy issues than it does about any supposed European spinelessness.

Decision methodologies for manufacturing management typically use cost as the sole or primary criterion of merit.