Sentence examples for some sort of merit from inspiring English sources

At the municipal level, by the mid-20th century, most large cities in the United States had developed some sort of merit system; in smaller cities, however, merit systems were correspondingly less common.

"That sort of thing must occur as the result of merit," he says, "one becomes disabled like this because of some sort of negative karma, but one's life is saved because one has done some sort of merit.

Nor would he have been very likely to report all of this and describe it as having "come up too often, too spontaneously, too often in conversation, to be ignored" if he didn't believe it had some sort of merit.

Contests, which offer prizes based on some sort of merit, almost always have better odds than sweepstakes with similar prizes because contests require skill and time.

Perhaps there are aesthetic norms that guide us to beliefs that have some sort of aesthetic merit, or that make us more beautiful in virtue of believing them.

What a strange mentality it is which sees some sort of maverick merit in acting as cheerleader for a child rapist – and again for a creature who comes across as an unholy hybrid of Machiavelli and Hyacinth Bouquet.

If it is "department wide recognition," then some other sort of merit scheme that does not presuppose valor or courage on the battlefield could achieve this.

"Perhaps there could be some sort of system involving social merit points," he muses; something akin to the recent development of carbon-emissions trading".The proliferation of market services is going to be very good for philanthropy," says Mr Myerson of the Philanthropy Roundtable.

For some reason we seem to think that Tom Rogic or Aaron Mooy are less worthy of that sort of merit".

"I think it makes everyone feel like what we're all doing is not completely without any sort of merit," he said.

Among theater geeks, "The Baker's Wife" is a sort of merit badge.