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Example sentences for: merits

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Prior decisions have little value in trademark claims, and each case must be argued on its own merits.
The merits of universal telephone and postal service aside, there are several strong arguments against an Internet subsidy:
Sathyamoorthy concludes his brief exercise with a suggestion that merits some attention by VERBATIM readers:
Whatever the merits of this idea--and there are some--it does not address the problem at hand.
The language of extraterrestrials merits only passing mention in Lunatic Lovers of Language, which deals with the development of artificial languages and with the search for language universals, characteristics that many (or all) languages share and that lend credence to the notion that there was only one original language from which the present stock has liverged.