Sentence examples for the meritorious from inspiring English sources
adjective
Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward
- The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.
/ The city applauded the meritorious mayor.
He was a naval veteran of World War II and received the Meritorious Service Award.
He was the recipient of important University awards, including the Meritorious Service Award and a Presidential Citation.
She received the Meritorious Service Award from the North Carolina Hospital Association in 2006 and in 2009 she was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame.
She was the first soldier in her team to die in action and was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal and the Combat Action Badge.
"This court does not lightly disturb a conviction in such a serious case as this," Justice Rooney wrote, but "the court, without reservation, is firmly and soundly convinced of the meritorious nature of the defendant's application".
It didn't get the prize; the judges explained that, meritorious as the production was, the two lads who played Cassius and Mark Antony were both too mature to be bona-fide students.
The good life is the morally meritorious life, the morally meritorious life is one that is responsive to the demands of the world (on a suitably moralized understanding of "the demands of the world" and is thereby the virtuous life because the virtues just are those character traits in virtue of which their possessor is thus responsive (Swanton 2003).
"Esther's love must be kept in view, to make the coming trial the greater and the victory the more meritorious"; "Jo?
The different disciplines review the best concepts in their areas of expertise, before pushing their thoughts up to a super panel (the Space Science Advisory Committee) to pick the most meritorious suggestion from across the board.
What luck, then, to find the toweringly meritorious figure of Thomas Piketty, the French economist, encapsulating the objections in his rejection of the of the Legion d'Honneur.
