Now, the slightly better-qualified student is likely to be lured elsewhere unless the director can match the substantial merit scholarships she has been offered by other institutions.

Executive director of the commissioners, Barbara J. Kaplan, said the project had "substantial merit" and "that there is an opportunity here we should not pass up".

Additionally, the argument that border treaties are voided when federations are dissolved does not appear to have substantial merit and is clearly conflict-prone.

At The Times, a few correspondents who have received substantial merit raises and performed hazardous duty are "bumping up against $80,000," one senior editor said.

The only federal building from the period remaining in the city, the Post Office possesses substantial architectural merit as an example of Spanish Colonial Revival design.

Excellent: a record of substantial merit, though flawed in some essential way.

For these reasons its popularity was not so immediate as that of Grote's work, but its substantial merits were later recognized.

"We have a civil case against the auditors which we believe has substantial merit," Mr. Bershad said.

The history of the decisions shows lack of interest and enforcement when the Iranian claim had substantial merit.

The tribunal, unlike a court, must act according to the substantial merits of the case and not be bound by technicalities.