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520 examples of Merit in a sentence

Anything of merit can actually be seen in the trailer which heavily uses the 'best', or at least most memorable scene in the film featuring an aged child on a swing.
Mission impossible II is undoubtedly one of the ten worst movies ever made; with the exception of the climbing sequence, at the beginning of the film, it is completely without excitement or any other merit.
And while I agree it is really bad, I'm not sure it reached the level of wretchedness needed to merit inclusion in the book--but it sure is close enough that I can't fault its mention.
Although the entire movie is not relevant to everyone, I would strongly suggest watching it for at least the artistic merit.
My youngest two will not be seeing "Bratz" as I could not find anything about it worth merit in the preview.
In India, this myth is less powerful, but there is a general feeling, shared even by some of the poor, that the rich deserve their wealth because of their merit, education, and skills.
The factors underlying this shift merit attention, for many of them are likely to bring the two countries even closer.
Typically, an interest group lobbies Congress, blandishing persuasive arguments, campaign contributions, and other support; often enough members – or enough key members – come to see the merit of the group’s point of view (or at least vote as if they do).
As if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s depth and duration were not enough to merit an international solution, there is also the issue of Palestine’s mistrust of the US.
In early September, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, suggested that to torpedo the deal, Trump could simply argue that Iran’s other misdeeds were damaging enough to merit sanctions.
This may or may not work, but the decisions and announcements at least have the merit of existing, thereby demonstrating the willingness of the G-7 and others to uphold principles and values to which Russia is, in theory, also committed.
No one has expressed that mission better than Benjamin Franklin, a man of letters and a scientific innovator, who defined education as the quest for “true merit.”
“True merit,” Franklin wrote, consists in “an inclination joined with an ability to serve mankind, one’s country, friends, and family; which ability is…to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning; and should, indeed, be the great aim and end of all learning.”
As for the death sentences that have already been carried out – two in that four-year period – it is impossible to ascertain the objective criteria that made the crimes in question more heinous or “rarer” than those that did not merit execution.
Given that these problems are most acute in Africa, Blair’s priorities have some merit.
To be sure, fears that a ceasefire could lead to a stabilization of the conflict’s frontlines, turning them into semi-permanent lines of division, are not without merit.
There is most likely some merit to all of the explanations on offer.
This strategy has considerable merit.
Qaddafi’s armed forces were chosen on the basis of loyalty and ethnic affiliation, rather than any concept of merit, so the temptation to strip everyone to their underwear and send them home (to describe what may be the most humane of outcomes) might be great.
So, in this regard, investor fears were not without merit.
In fact, given an increasingly unequal distribution of income between capital and labor (as well as across the income spectrum for labor) a larger store of public assets certainly has merit, as it equalizes the distribution of capital and wealth, albeit indirectly.
As I acknowledged at the time, that prediction certainly had merit; nonetheless, I persisted in contending that the tribunal could eventually bring to justice many of those most responsible.
If monetary expansion does not merit the charge of currency manipulation, still less do other sorts of economic policies.
But the evolution of Trump’s position on NATO suggests that he may yet see merit to working through these organizations as he comes to recognize that the world economy, too, is a dangerous place.
Such claims merit close scrutiny.
But competition is as important as financing in determining a university's quality, because competition increases the merit of the product.
Two questions, in particular, merit attention.
It is not utterly absurd, therefore, that voters want to like the look of their presidents, quite apart from the merit of their policies.
But the American republic has one merit that monarchies lack.
Two decades of natural decay and remediation measures mean that most territories originally deemed “contaminated” no longer merit that label.
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