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

Does she have any merit?

Naivete is his only merit.

An aim not devoid of merit.

There is little merit in this plan.

There's little merit in asking him for help.

I got a merit badge in first aid.

At the meeting I pointed out the plan's merit.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Today awarded posthumous Order of Conspicuous Merit 2nd class.

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

What on earth did this man do to merit this treatment?

So the work that we can perform takes higher priority and merit increases.

The merit of that step forward is that the toilet basin stays clean.

Surely most of them merit the decree of chastisement so they do not believe.

There is just enough merit between them to make one good sort of man.

She is too fair, too wise wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair

Peace be upon you. You merit this reward for your steadfastness. How excellent is the ultimate abode!

Inherit at my house hear all, all see, And like her most whose merit most shall be

Do you know that a 20 year survey of merit scholars had one thing in common without exception?

On the eve of the national holiday... the CC of the SUG traditionally rewards men and women of merit.

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

My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.

They're talking about their little action figures and their little achievements or merit badges, or whatever it is that they get.

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

Saying O Lord, forgive me, and give me such a dominion as none will merit after me. You are the great bestower.

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

There are many reasons, but the two that merit the little bit of time is one, the clarity of purpose is there.

I'm not saying that your proposition is without merit, but if it's all the same to you, I'll take a rain check, okay?

Their countries are so different, and they merit to be recognized in the same way, as we don't talk about Europe as one place.

Carpets have the effect of a dust pocket, with merit of sucking up dust and stopping it flying around, but you can say that effect backfires.

For everyone there are degrees of merit pertaining to what he has done He will recompense them fully for their works, and they will not be wronged.

I don't claim any merit for standing the stress of Jim's emotions I could take refuge in the letters I could have written to strangers if necessary.

(Music) And most people rated the 2nd Violin Concerto of Ligeti as ugly, which does not again, let me emphasize, mean that it doesn't have considerable musical merit,

And the first of them will say to the last of them, You have no merit over us! So taste the punishment because of what you used to earn.

But there are others who say 'Lord, give us a merit in the world and good in the Everlasting Life, and save us from the punishment of the Fire'

Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of this world. But deeds of lasting merit are better rewarded by your Lord and a far better source of hope.

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.

(O Prophet), recite the Book that has been revealed to you and establish Prayer. Surely Prayer forbids indecency and evil. And Allah's remembrance is of even greater merit. Allah knows all that you do.

Some of you may know what I mean that mingled anxiety, distress, and irritation with a sort of craven feeling creeping in not pleasant to acknowledge, but which gives a quite special merit to one's endurance.

They began to study religion alone, insisting that only those who study religion particularly Islamic jurisprudence gain merit in the afterlife. The result was intellectual regression at the very moment that Europe began embracing scientific and mathematical knowledge.

The work of innovation is becoming more open, more inclusive, more transparent and more merit based, and that's going to continue no matter what MlT and Harvard think of it, and I couldn't be happier about that development.

And here is another painting which most people, but not all, rated as ugly, although it's a painting by Lucian Freud of considerable artistic merit in that it projects truth, but was nevertheless not experienced as beautiful by most subjects.

But my point in discussing this is to show you I hope I'll be able to show you how these merit based competitions, with equal access to everyone, with the winner selected via voting by SMS, are changing tribal societies.

But it does make a point which is one which, in a sense, differentiates the real world of people who make things, and the world of people who think about things, which is, there is an intellectual merit to asking