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355 examples of Merits in a sentence

And so we argued it on the merits of being a dome.
And in this particular case I happened to like one of them on the merits of music literacy in schools and I shared it over a social network.
And these are all merits that are not just good in the developing world.
In assessing the merits of such tales, it's probably wise to keep in mind that old sailor's saw that the only difference between a fairytale and a sea story is a fairytale begins, "Once upon a time," and a sea story begins, "This ain't no shit."
We're weighing the merits of two jobs, after all, not the merits of the number nine and a plate of fried eggs.
A comparison of the overall merits of two jobs is something we can make, and one we often do make.
So if you are a liberal parent and you want to encourage your children to believe in the merits of nontraditional families, you might give them a book like this.
This high level group agreed to honestly discuss the merits and flaws of drug policies.
And while this approach has merits, I have come full circle.
She began working on the Alexiad, which made the case for her father's merits as emperor.
And just as I learned to do, we routinely refuse to acknowledge the flaws in our positions or the merits in our opponent's.
Knowing what people are like also allows us to decide what responsibilities to give them and to weigh our decisions based on people's merits.
Here's an example of a vote that we took where the majority of people felt one way ... but when we weighed the views based on people's merits, the answer was completely different.
And that means competition on the merits, that you compete on the quality of your products, the prices you can offer, the services, the innovation that you produce.
That's competition on the merits.
And this is where competition rules come in, because when we make sure that markets work fairly, then businesses compete on the merits, and that helps to build the trust that we need as citizens to feel comfortable and in control, and the trust that allows our society to work.
And even when surrounded in a structure of European classicism, these narratives boldly extoll the merits of African empowerment.
Besides the comments on the technical merits of the production, or lack thereof, the acting is absolutely horrible.
But the shoddy production values can't completely obscure this film's considerable merits: namely, Sidney Poitier's performance as the cool detective determined to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, even if it implicates a friend.
As a film on its own merits this is a good looking but pretty unremarkable movie.
The film can't stand on it's own merits.
I saw this film purely based on the fact that it was on the DPP Video Nasty list, and while I'm glad I saw it because it's now 'another Video Nasty down' - on its own merits, Andy Milligan's film really isn't worth bothering with.
Book of Revelation is not entirely without merits, but as an overall experience it is well below average B-grade.
Yet were I to detail its merits, this space would remain blank.
Taken completely on its own merits Assault is a debacle.
But all that said, I did watch whole thing in more or less one go and did appreciate its merits, all the while wishing that someone would do a less soapy remake.
I would consider myself a fan of Dean Koontz; having read a number of his novels and liked them all, but unfortunately I never got around to reading Watchers so I'm left with no choice but to rate this film on it's own merits rather than comparing it to the book that I haven't read.
March and his wife have a terrible time adjusting, and he is drinking; O'Donnell's young man, Harold Russell,, has hooks instead of hands and wonders if life can even be worth living; and worst of all Andrews' wife throws him over for a guy with dough and he has lost years, causing employers to ignore or deny his rights to a job, to consideration on his individual merits, to have even what he had before he had been ripped from his life and thrust into the arena of risk--for nothing, and loss of everything he had ever had.
I feel "Scarlet" should be judged on its own merits rather than attempting any comparison with the venerable Selznick masterpiece GWTW.
The visual effects was just one of the merits of this movie, the camera was in true Kubrick style amazing and enchanting.
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