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They're talking about their little action figures and their little achievements or merit badges, or whatever it is that they get.
What on earth did this man do to merit this treatment?
But merit remains the fundamental driver.
I didn't think about that much at the time, and it wasn't until the next three fatal shark attacks happened, and it caused me to think, maybe there's some merit to this idea.
And at the end, the city of Philadelphia thanked every single one of them and gave them a merit for their accomplishment.
And of of the criticisms is this idea of merit.
Look, I don't want to be picked because I'm a chick, I want to be picked because I have merit, because I'm the best person for the job.
But, if the merit idea was true, why would identical resumes, in an experiment done in 2012 by Yale, identical resumes sent out for a lab technician, why would Jennifers be deemed less competent, be less likely to be offered the job, and be paid less than Johns.
And, you know, it's interesting, there's some research that talks about why this is the case and it's called the merit paradox.
To suggest that the script had merit, based solely on the possibility of being included on a list of beloved screenplays.
He had just transferred to NYU from a community college on a merit scholarship, and turns out, only about five percent of students at NYU are black.
There are many reasons, but the two that merit the little bit of time is: one, the clarity of purpose is there.
Unlike those khans, Temujin promoted soldiers based on merit and distributed spoils evenly among them.
We think these high-confident grays are folks who understand that both arguments have merit.
The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
But the idea has a merit.
The idea has a merit.
Their countries are so different, and they merit to be recognized in the same way, as we don't talk about Europe as one place.
The basis or plot for the movie probably had some historical merit and maybe even truthfully accurate...but the actual film may be one of worst movies made in American film history...I kept waiting for Lee Marvin, William Holden or Charles Bronson to pop in to somehow save whatever "face" was left of this film.
Yes, maybe there have actually been very few with much merit.
Quite possibly this was some latent voyeuristic tendency in me that wanted to see our hero get it on with his victim, or maybe fascination that they got funding to make, distribute, and show this film that kept me searching it for merit, or possibly some bizarre wish-fulfillment fantasy that there might be a point at the end of all the pain.
A rather cheap looking production with almost no artistic merit, this film relies on the quality and quantity of its action.
No one can make an 'instant cult classic', Joe Minion's previous "After Hours" achieved that by sheer merit & an amazing director, but it wasn't instant.
This movie has no merit at all and needlessly trashes Errol Flynn's memory.
Any artistic merit got flushed down the drain of the gay ghetto mentality.
As it turned out, the film both merited and did not merit the anticipatory shame we felt.
This is a film that has garnered any interest or praise it has received simply on the merit of being a lesbian interest piece.
The only thing of merit in the film was the costuming and the acting ability of almost everyone in the film....there just wasn't a plot/script worthy of their talents.
Once upon a time Theresa Russell made a few halfway decent movies, so I keep hoping that one of her efforts from the past decade or two will merit a rating of at least 6 or 7 (out of 10).
Still this does have merit.
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