The respective merits of each route have already been discussed in para 2.4 above.

The issue transcends the respective merits of the designs.

High school and college clubs as well as professional pundits routinely debated their respective merits.

They are both well known to you, gentlemen, and I have no intention of speaking in detail on their respective merits.

No one could be better equipped to assess each holiday on its respective merits.

However, he is chiefly remembered for his share in the controversy about the respective merits of ancient and modern learning.

In the following decades, Italian critics argued over the respective merits of the two epics.

In order to determine which line should proceed, a Parliamentary Inquiry was held to determine their respective merits.

Or again, two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant judgment as to their respective merits.

And no-one will ever win an argument over the respective merits of our rich and expressive linguistic heritage.