"They are really looking for influence aside from the merits of their work," Senator Specter said of the covert operators.

"I want to be compared with any other photographer out there on the merit of my work."

Writers or visual artists are selected on the merit of their work by the collaborating organization.

This controversial article renewed public dialogue about the relation between a person's politics and the merit of their work.

Surely she must know that writers are notoriously unreliable in assessing the literary merit of their own work.

On the merits of his work, he has earned it.

But it's that kind of objectivity that is essential if you want to (truly) judge the merits of your work.

He recognized the merit of her work by giving her a new assignment - that of a columnist appearing on the editorial page.

Secondly, a great merit of our work is that cooperation will improve, both among communications officials and between them and Frontex.

Hence if some employer is doing a "performance review" he can infer his employee's behavior from the merits of his work.