Sentence examples for their merits that from inspiring English sources

It is for these reasons, as well as having candidates considered solely on their merits, that the Cornell Alumni Association prohibits campaign activity of any kind by or on behalf of any candidate.

Each of the recordings of the Requiem have their merits; that by Péter Eötvös (used in the Playlist) is particularly fine.

It is only through the direct interrogation of the concepts in local historical contexts, and through direct scholarly debate about their merits, that we may succeed in redefining them in truly universal terms or in identifying new conceptual frameworks that foster comparative and transnational historical understanding.

My last column, "The vodka effect," argued that emerging-market debt issues were trading on their own merits — that Russia wouldn't pull down other emerging-markets' paper the way Mexico's devaluation did during the tequila effect days of 1994-95.

What Betzer and Levine have done is substantial, and substantially different from the familiar run of low-budget genre films that come out, sometimes to acclaim (I'm thinking, for instance, of "Blue Ruin" and the forthcoming teen horror film "It Follows"), films that have their merits but that fit into genre without reflecting on or transforming it.

Looking through the completed pieces, I considered the ones that stood on their own pictorial merits (that is not looking so much like the original source reference) to be more successful than those that looked just like the clouds at sunset (for example).

But there is nothing in his presentation of the view that God's love for creatures is independent of their merit that yields this result.

But evaluating their merits from that perspective was pointless, since the singers were amplified with headset microphones.

If the party should have the confidence to discuss issues on their merits, saying "that sounds a bit Old Labour" was not a legitimate way to close down debate.

At worst it may force people to take a second and evaluate those ideas on their merits, and that's hardly a bad thing.

Courage … and all the other shining virtues of that kind, have plainly a strong mixture of self-esteem in them, and derive a great part of their merit from that origin" (Hume, Treatise, 599 600).