Words similar to merit

Example sentences for: merit

How can you use “merit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There is too much venture capital money chasing increasingly marginal business ideas--as exemplified by Clark's going in to see John Doerr, uttering one sentence, and getting funding for MyCFO, an idea that may or may not have merit.
Only Al Franken's Lateline is said to have any merit.
He doesn't merit such niceness.
As Table 3displays, the δ AUC analysis demonstrates a p-value of 0.036 for the rectal toxicity comparison, and a p-value of 0.065 for the bladder toxicity comparison, suggesting that [when using AUC as the measure of merit] the BED-DVH's were significantly better-correlated (than the corresponding C-DVH's) with rectal toxicity, and marginally better-correlated with bladder toxicity.
But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”) was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.