About the only thing that some officials felt merited change was New York democracy.

The foreign spies were tried and found guilty, receiving merited punishment.

The consequence of this refusal was a merited punishment, only too long delayed.

I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment.

The school has also provided a platform for academic research in economy for a large number of merited Finnish scholars.

In 1905, he was appointed merited professor and was granted the right to retire, which he did immediately.

There can hardly be a soldier in the whole world, whether friend or foe, who would not be proud of merited decorations.

"The institution has a merited reputation for being long-term and bureaucratic, but along with my colleagues I'm trying to cut that down," Mr. Wolfensohn said.

He worked on strengthening of statehood of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and he was one of its most merited founders and builders.

Moses did not commit murder in killing the Egyptian ; for the latter merited death because he had forced an Israelitish woman to commit adultery with him.

Such an arrangement shows a merited appreciation of the proverbial "ounce of prevention," and when serious difficulties do arise materially counteracts the tendency to panic which is exhibited by so many young mothers.

Padmakumar K of Malayala Manorama rated the film 2.5 in a scale of 5 and said, "Though the concept is nothing new, the way of presentation and the setting is a merited deviation from the beaten track.

On the merits, the Court was right in the first place.

City officials said the decision was not based on merit but money.

My own answer to the merit question is a little different.

But how does the book stand on its own merits?

For me, a place must stand on its own merits.

I just wanted the decision to be made on the merits.

The individual would move up or down according to merit.

The plan would have no merit in their eyes now.

Of these, the group found some 70 percent to be without merit.

Her decision is not based on the merits of the case.

The merits of their cases are not the point, however.

He lost much if not all of his former merit.

The special relationship will now have to stand or fall on its own merits.

And in this case those merits are often hard to find.

One other thought: your son may have lost on his merits.

A. I like to think it was because of merit.

And there is merit to what the new people do.

More areas in the West are beginning to see its merits.

Others are to take up public jobs according to their merits.

They might have merit if used far away from earth.

This may have nothing to do with the merit of those works.

There is, however, also and above all the question of the merits.

Each case will need to be considered on its individual merits.

Such cases would have to be considered on their merits.

It was the same car he'd seen next to the merit building.

Which he does often enough to merit me keep watching him.

I do think they merit some study, though, so more power to the professor and his students.

However, there is a certain difference between these two cases which may merit attention.

And the economy, should you need to ask, turns out to merit the question.

But they have decided I merit it just as much.

She said that his family resources should not merit special treatment.

High enough to merit a soft answer, at any rate.

However, I should like to raise three points which perhaps merit our attention.

Three issues that merit particular attention between now and November.

Again I asked what you'd done to merit this investigation.

What he had done to merit his fate no one will ever know.

A mother and the little girl with her did not merit a click.

He also objects that she was too young to merit such a high position through her works.

The country has done little to merit a favorable report.

Was the attack effective enough to merit a continued campaign?

It's good enough to merit a purchase on its own.

From an economic point of view, those routine cases merit some concern.

He has raised a number of issues which merit further consideration.

Well, perhaps the quantum world will merit its own show one of these years.

That seemed as much of a response he felt the question merited.

"What have I done to merit two visits in one night?"

I feel that all these questions are sufficiently important to merit an answer from us.

In several years no film was found to merit the best picture award.

For a minute, I thought our dog was not going to merit a credit.

He is more likely to be able to pick out subjects that merit study.