This delegate saw some merit in ambiguity of terminology.

If an idea has merit, it has merit.

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

Some have retained a centralized structure, albeit with clearly defined purposes and with a renewed emphasis on merit.

Counsellor (merit), June 1994

A certificate of merit...

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

Although many multilateral and bilateral donors have been involved in these assistance programmes, some more recent interventions merit special mention.

Second Secretary (merit), December 1981

First Secretary (merit), December 1987

And no merit but one.

What other merit have we?

Some of our colleagues have made thoughtful interventions about matters not raised in the Secretary General's report but that merit careful consideration.

However, we also recognize some merit in paragraphs 4 (f) and 12 (c), and in the longer run in paragraph 12 (d).

Observe how We have given some of them an advantage over some others yet the Hereafter is surely greater in respect of ranks and greater in respect of relative merit.

Observe how We have given some of them an advantage over some others yet the Hereafter is surely greater in respect of ranks and greater in respect of relative merit.

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.

Bill Gates I've seen some things you're doing in the system that have to do with motivation and feedback energy points, merit badges.

The main criterion is merit and qualifications.

The only consideration is qualification and merit.

Minister First Class, Ambassador (merit), December 1984

What has He done to merit this?

Rio Branco Order of Merit, Brazil, 1990, 1994

It stresses that there is merit in revisiting some of the financial rules to provide programme managers with greater flexibility in the implementation of their mandated activities, as well as merit in empowering them through greater delegation of authority to manage the human and financial resources appropriated to them.

His Government saw some merit in the current attempt to resolve the predicament of Taipei, taking into account the changing international climate characterized by global economic interdependence.

(a) Appointments should continue to be based on merit

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.

But I should like to cite some of the omissions, as well as some of the issues included, in the document that should merit a very broad ranging, careful and in depth debate in the Assembly.

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.

The proposal for a standing fund for peacebuilding has merit.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

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

There is also much merit in paragraph 77, except some specific points, such as the existence of free transit of space objects, because only innocent passage can be admitted.

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

We agree that they merit a proper place in our system.