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Merit in sentence

520 examples of Merit in a sentence

In an uncertain age, whoever defines us first, whether a politician, an artist, or an intellectual, will merit a prominent place in our history.
Most of these parties are led by political dynasties that prize loyalty over merit.
It rewards ambition, promotes office-at-any-cost politics, and devalues merit.
If current practices are maintained, the choice for this key post will be made on the basis of nationality, not merit.
The real solution is to increase our reliance on actual facts and genuine expertise; we just have to ensure that we are listening to real experts, to professional technocrats who have advanced in their careers on the basis of merit.
But some initial lessons for international politics – and for Western, particularly European, foreign policy – merit serious consideration.
These explanations have some merit, but one should recognize that central banks and sovereign wealth funds, not private citizens, are the players most directly responsible for the big savings surpluses.
There is considerable merit to this view.
All have merit and would have some impact, but they would lead to incremental advances at best.
Is there any merit to Trump’s claim?
At a time when the world is concerned with both slowing economic growth and rising inequality, policies that can be simultaneously pro-growth and pro-equality merit close consideration.
This suggests that, whatever the merit of government action, what governments do not do is also important.
While both proposals have merit, whether they will be enough to stabilize our dangerously unstable financial systems is at best dubious.
Assad, Syrian rebels, Americans, Russians, and Arabs all merit criticism.
Whether or not Napoleon was great, the question remains whether any leader could merit that description.
They believe that they owe their status purely to merit, not to the collective efforts – state-funded schools, universities, etc. – that enabled them to realize their potential.
When merit is measured by money, there is no ethical limit to the size of an individual’s paycheck.
But, while their concern does have some merit, there are key differences between the Latin American – and even Brazilian – context and that of Europe and the US.
This sort of arithmetic has the merit of giving some indications about burden-sharing, but it has also been shown that burden-sharing cannot be fully captured in graphs and spreadsheets.
The case dragged on until it was dismissed in 1982 as being “without merit.”
Given such free and vibrant daily debate in Turkey, allegations of rising authoritarianism are without merit.
While this approach has some merit, it is incomplete, as it fails to address the egregious mispricing of risk brought about by an overly accommodative monetary policy and the historically low interest rates that it generated.
For example, Sarkozy has promised that half of the savings from the reduction in public employment will go to higher pay – possibly based on merit, another red line for the trade unions.
Its towering merit is that it will work.
Likewise, de-designation can easily be reversed when conditions merit it – such as when Kim orchestrates the assassination of his half-brother in a Malaysian airport.
In particular, ten potential costs associated with such policies merit attention.
Officials are now actively discussing the merit of negative policy rates.
As long as such choices do not impose unreasonable or unbearable burdens on others, these democratic choices merit full respect.
Only determined action by their governments, supported by their citizens, will show that they merit unreserved support from the rest of the eurozone.
This does not mean that all opinions should be considered equal, but rather that alternative views should be debated and vetted on merit alone.
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