If an idea has merit, it has merit.

But the idea has a merit. The idea has a merit.

What has He done to merit this?

The proposal for a standing fund for peacebuilding has merit.

The decision to establish child protection task teams also has merit.

Rather, the appellant has an erroneous or different understanding of its merit.

Well, your advice has certain merit. I'll give your Greek a chance.

No attempt has been made to analyse those proposals or to assess their relative merit.

Counsellor (merit), June 1994

A certificate of merit...

Second Secretary (merit), December 1981

First Secretary (merit), December 1987

And no merit but one.

What other merit have we?

I believe that not only this proposal has a lot of merit, but that it should be supported.

There is merit to this practice.

Minister Second Class (merit), June 2000

All these aspects merit keen attention.

Minister Second Class (merit), April 1978

1. Merit based appointment and promotion

Play every ball on its merit.

Lastly, an important delegation has made specific suggestions for Security Council reform that we believe also merit serious consideration.

Investing money in your home has some merit when it is time to sell it you can get more money.

In addition, a provision of 0.8 per cent per annum for in grade increments and merit promotions has been made.

UNICEF finds that several recommendations in the report would extend the progress that has been made and merit further discussion.

Where it finds that a complaint has merit, the Commission may recommend to the President that remedial action be taken.

The main criterion is merit and qualifications.

The only consideration is qualification and merit.

Minister First Class, Ambassador (merit), December 1984

Rio Branco Order of Merit, Brazil, 1990, 1994

The authors' claim that the State party has not provided Vanessa with the required measures of protection is therefore without any merit.

(a) Appointments should continue to be based on merit

This delegate saw some merit in ambiguity of terminology.

Organic products may merit particular attention in this respect

These cases are reviewed on the basis of merit.

Many of these have merits and merit our approval.

It also has the great merit of calling upon States to build on this day of remembrance by working to educate future generations.

This initiative, moreover, has the merit of bringing to the table other countries, either closely or less closely involved in the Great Lakes problems.

Lo! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,

Lo! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,

However, we also recognize the merit of paragraph 24 (b).

We believe that the proposed measures merit our serious consideration.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

Neither does a virtue recently initiated, merit the name virtue.

The granting of nationality of the Niger through birth in the national territory has the unquestionable merit of avoiding cases of statelessness in the Niger.