Sentence examples for whose only merit is from inspiring English sources

It's much easier to pick something at random whose only merit is unexpectedness.

With unemployment at 10%, the idea that you can pass a bill whose only merit is that "liberals hate it" just because the media will eat it up and print your talking points in the process is so cynical and short-sighted it's hard to comprehend anyone would pursue it.

For me, an anti-racism conference that was organized by Libya, kicked off by Iran, and concluded with a speech whose only merit is, they gloat, the avoidance of a frontal attack on women, Jews, religious and sexual minorities, free thinkers, and indigenous people, is a total failure.

Or, more sardonically and pertinently in the context of Italy's current economic plight: "free competition, this selection which heartlessly favours only uncouth and rough persons whose only merits are those of passing tests, doing their job well and knowing their business, is naturally resented by most Italians".

If only merit were a bigger consideration too.(Picture credit: AFP).

This is an unacceptable cost, given that it arises from one single EU regulation whose merit is far from clear.

Republican officials' lawyers argued that a federal law supersedes the Florida law, an argument whose merit is far from clear.

Alternatively, there is an older term whose meager merits are only that it is well-known, concise and factually correct: atriobiventricular pacing [ 50].

Much of our familial treatment as weirdos is not only merited, it is also sought.

A revolution is long overdue in the technical and research governance frameworks for testing widely used interventions whose relative merits are unknown.

Its great merit is that it requires conformity only on the surface.