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How to use the word merit in a Sentence?

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The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bizarre but prevalent ideology that permeates these policy measures purports to act in the name of justice for the marginalized. But it frowns upon American institutions. It rejects merit and achievement. And it advocates identity essentialism, we reject this woke ideology. We seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy. We will not allow reality, facts and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad.

– Mike Peterson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They are against racial discrimination, but pernicious division and discrimination by race have been ongoing for a long time in admissions, so there is wrongful resistance to a change back to privileging individual merit. Those who see everything through the lens of color, want a superficial skin color result, or benefit from that, should join us in opposing discriminating by race.

– Wai Wah Chin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Eliminating affirmative action does not mean opposing against diversity. Universities should base admissions decisions on academics and extracurricular activities, not skin color. There are other ways to promote diversity within the merit system, affirmative action may sound like a positive policy for universities to have, but it is discrimination. The term tries hides its discriminatory practices behind the concept of diversity.

– Chloe Teachey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Trump and his cronies have made clear that they want to dismantle the merit-based civil service, i am committed to stopping this attack on our democracy and thank House leadership for bringing this legislation to the floor. We must keep all options on the table.

– Gerry Connolly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The CHIPS bill is necessary to shore up an existential threat to our economy and our national security, and that stands on its own merit.

– John Cornyn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They are viruses that merit about one line in very small print in the largest textbooks, so I've never come across them as a cause of disease.

– Will Irving

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously.

– Paramount Studios

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded.

– Stanley Goldfarb

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If I won it (Masters) and went back every year, I’d be happy to wave to the crowd, it is nice to be back, no doubt. It reminds me of my good performance at the PGA — I’m there by merit. It’s nice in that sense. But I’m not a guy into the sentimentality of it.

– Padraig Harrington

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have driven up the price of oil with half measures that have not achieved our objectives, sanctions need to be tailored for the appropriate situation to have the desired impact, achieve a certain outcome. Not all sanctions are alike. Not all sanctions are created equal, and not all situations merit the same type of sanctions response.

– Rich Goldberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Judge Blawie is an excellent judge, he’s been a judge for a very long time, so there could be circumstances, I suppose, that merit a full sealing — but I’ll say it’s extraordinarily unusual.

– Joel Faxon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The school board has not been prioritizing our childrens’ education, instead focusing on renaming schools and closing merit-based admissions.

– Leslie Huang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thanks to Save the Redwoods League for seizing on any opportunity to protect lands on the Lost Coast that are vital to its conservation, but PGE getting a green merit badge after all the destruction they’re doing ... is not palatable.

– Michael Evenson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it’s become clear that fairness is overrated ... the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in, that the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention … Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic responsibility or some kind of agenda, in fact, it’s just the opposite.

– Lester Holt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
2 years ago

It was n’t until Rush spoke up against Democrat policies that they started giving him those horrible names, president Trump has suffered more defamation of President Trump character than any president in modern times because these people are relentless in their opposition to President Trump -- and they can not argue it on merit, so they use ad hominem attacks to smear and castigate their opponents.

– Limbaugh Show producer James Golden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some people really voted... with enthusiasm to say our health care workers, our frontline workers, people who were vaccinated early, people who work in congregate settings, in correctional facilities, grocery workers, really do merit the vaccine, the question wasn't' yes or no,' the question was' wait or do now,'.

– Rochelle Walensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You may be putting him in some jeopardy with this allegation, i don't know if there's any merit to( the forgery allegation) or not. but I do know that Mr. Hodgkins was under oath, and I asked him if this was his signature, and he said it was.

– District Judge Randolph Moss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For Powell, there is no merit in specifying the exact timing for tapering at today’s speech. If he doesn’t drop a clear hint, that will be mildly positive for stocks.

– Kyosuke Suzuki

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

What we don't think is that what we believe is that there isn't a presence that is significant enough to merit a threat to our homeland. As there was back on 9/11 20 years ago. The president also said there is no national security interest, no national interest in Afghanistan.

– Jennifer Griffin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sameulson is an extortionist who is trying to undo pension reform. We also understand he is a political supporter of Tish James and she says she may run against the governor, and he wants more benefits in his contract, it is critically important to realize that any such comment may merit severe repercussions.

– Rich Azzopardi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Advocates for critical race theory are even arguing that merit is racist, they argue that math is even racist, i am worried about the dumbing down of curriculum. I am worried about this forced equality. I don't think it works in other areas of the world. It certainly won't work in United States.

– Harry Jackson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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