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Example sentences for: merit

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More often than not, the host has only limited time: maybe a dull caller can be disposed of quickly; on the other hand, an interesting caller might merit being continued after a break for the news or a commercial.
The 183 introns described in rRNA Introns Table 2 as "Unclassified" merit special attention.
Accounting for ethnicity, you might amend Young this way (to the extent that "merit" and academic performance are the same thing): an ethnic group's long-term cultural orientation to education, plus its level of sociological ambition in American society at the moment, will equal its members' merit.
Ambassadors who die in office merit consideration for a space in Arlington.
One might well counter that words containing those elements are therefore not common enough to merit inclusion, but is that suffi- cient reason to omit - mane words ( balletomane ), - bund words ( moribund ), and all words ending in - phobe or - phile ? I believe that to create a truly useful work, even acknowledging its restrictions, the author should have considered matters other than raw frequency, the criterion applied for “use in the classroom or at home.”