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Example sentences for: merits

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Strategically, few dispute the merits of perfecting "theater" defenses, such as the upgraded Patriot missile to swat down low-flying shorter-range missiles on overseas battlefields, but the genuine operational need for a missile defense system for the U.S. homeland remains a much-gnawed bone of contention.
After weighing the relative merits of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, and other great figures, Time has named Albert Einstein the "Person of the Century."
The former's statement that “[t]he French words for junkie are toxoman and morphinman , neither of which merits official use” leaves me puzzled.
In short, when Bush's merits and treatment are examined relative to other applicants', his story looks fishy.
It's always nice to see distributors proved wrong about the merits of "difficult" films, but in this case I think they did the decent thing.