This may have some superficial intellectual merit, but the idea that the public won't notice if there is a "public value test" is a bit optimistic.
In this study, inferior epigastric AV-bundle were adopted based on the merits such as superficial anatomical location and adequate length.
Nevertheless, these results imply that p53 is involved in the clinical behaviour of bladder cancer; its role in the progression of superficial cancer to invasive disease merits further attention.
However specious, or superficial, this distinction might seem, it is not wholly without merit.
And yet the social gestures known as manners, however superficial they appear to be, are indices of a collective soul and merit the close attention of the novelist and reader alike.
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right," (Thomas Paine, Common Sense) and consequently we have overlooked the merits of placing Term Limits on the Legislature.
The relative merits of the Zaki and Richardson and the Aerov and Todes equations for the superficial velocity porosity relationship and minimum fluidisation velocity conditions being critically evaluated.
That skin merits designation as an organ is not an effort to lend scientific seriousness to a body part often considered superficial compared with meaty organ kingpins like the heart, liver and brain.
