Sentences with phrase «argued by merit»

«We find that aggregating results from multiple studies across different cultural, economic and political contexts suggests that incentive pay, as argued by merit pay advocates, offers a promising strategy,» the Vanderbilt study concludes.

Not exact matches

On the other side of the debate, we have the ISPs like AT&T and Comcast, who argue that a re-classification of broadband providers the Internet under Title II (which was originally written for old phone networks) by the FCC is both out - of - date and without legal merit.

The merits of the settlement have been debated here and elsewhere, and I doubt I'd change minds by arguing it either way.

One side vehemently argues the merits of innovating vis - à - vis customer feedback; the other argues that true innovation is created by singularly gifted visionaries who ignore customer input and instead manufacture innovation based solely on their prophetic vision for a better future.

one could argue there was no pretense or mistake in this war of inception rather than post deceptive wars we are forced to celebrate to this day by our leaders regardless of their merits as being «victimized» or aggressive acts of War (just).

It has been said that she hastened her own death by bringing on a fit of seizures while arguing the merits of skim milk because it was cheaper than whole milk.»

This complacency, which Cobb acknowledges with his typical candor (supra), was being encouraged by Ford, albeit unconsciously, even before my use of the systematic approach had produced a significantly new interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics — one gleaned from all of Whitehead's books from The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Modes of Thought, and one which, whatever its merits are finally judged to be, constitutes a strong, thoroughly argued, and well - documented challenge to the whole range of traditional interpretations.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

Legislators will argue with some merit that they are judged by a few bad apples and that despite all of our reforms to date, «it's never enough, it's never enough.»

Finally Young argued some things should never be distributed by merit, such as healthcare, protection by the police and education.

But Oluyede argued in the first grounds of appeal that the ruling amounted to miscarriage of justice, adding that the CCT erred in law by allowing Umar «to single - handedly decide that the application for recusal (disqualification) lacks absolute merit».

«While the date itself can not prove that the map is authentic,» Olin notes, «it is an important piece of new evidence that must be considered by those who argue that the map is a forgery and without cartographic merit.»

Lights Out by George Wolf While fright fans continue to argue about the merits of art house horror vs. torture porn, there is another option in 2016.

THE DVD - ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO by Bill Chambers A wonderful DVD of a lousy movie, Columbia TriStar's Once Upon a Time in Mexico platter has the potential to become a key tool for arguing the merits of digital video.

That contract then — which some critics in the union argued would amount to merit pay, a characterization you disagreed with, and argued under state law meant that bonuses would be determined in part by test scores — was it still the right move to sign that contract?

Their concurring in part and dissenting in part opinion argued: (1) the court should not have reached the issue because: «n reaching the merits of the Section 10 challenge, the court ignores the fact that the Duncan complaint (which raised the Section 10 challenge) was dismissed by the district court for failure to state a claim under NRCP 12 (b)(5);» and (2) the issue is one of first impression, which the justices, in dissent, said is «not as well - defined and easily resolved as my colleagues suggest,... the proper action here, had a majority of this court not determined that SB 302's funding is unconstitutional, would be to remand this matter to the district court for further proceedings and factual development as to this claim.»

When the lawyer for the state of Illinois tried to argue that the state had an interest in working with «a stable, responsible, independent counterpart that's well - resourced enough that it can partner in the process of not only contract negotiation,» Justice Kennedy broke in and devastatingly finished his thought by saying, «It can partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes.»

The late Brig. Gen. A. W. DeQuoy, who was a master historian in our breed and a man with a brilliant mind, discussed eye color by saying that while the «List of Points in the Order of Merit» called for a dark eye as No. 16, it did not say brown... arguing that a gold eye could still be dark.

However, I am astonished that instead of arguing the merits of the issues raised by the exhibition, she turned her review into a personal attack on the curator.

One - sided arguments proliferate and people arguing the other side are frequently denounced as being employed by business interests rather than rebutted on the merits.

In view of the inconsistent relationship between RMSE and MAE, we argue that comparing the performance of competing models by comparing their RMSEs lacks merit.

By the way, as someone who has an interest in climate change, but not the technical skill to be able to sort out the merits of an argument, i have to say that i am influenced by the way people arguBy the way, as someone who has an interest in climate change, but not the technical skill to be able to sort out the merits of an argument, i have to say that i am influenced by the way people arguby the way people argue.

In recent discussion of the Weblog 2007 Awards, several commenters at other blogs have argued that our criticisms of the Mannian parlor tricks have been «thoroughly refuted and discarded by climatologists, published in a credible journal»; that «other professionals in the field who also have «looked in great detail at the problem at hand» and have come to the conclusion that rather than McIntyre's findings being «valid and relevant», they instead have found them to be «without statistical and climatological merit»; that CA «fluffed on the whole hockey stick thing».

The irony of siding with Marketing to argue against the merits of History on matters of substance aside, it's likely that the whole of the «Where's the beef,» epoch (1984 - 1985) passed away before History Major was born and was forgotten by all except decrepit fans of Wham!

Though Dow Chemical claims the suit is «without merit,» arguing that it has been on the market for 4 decades and approved for sale in 100 countries «based on detailed scientific evaluations by regulators charged with the protection of human health,» it wasn't exactly candid about the fact that its so - called «detailed scientific evaluations» were just tests conducted on cash - strapped, semi-informed college - age volunteers.

... Although respondent attempts to minimize his criminal acts and illegal conduct involving moral turpitude by arguing that he did not distribute medications to others, the cumulative nature of respondent's misconduct... merits disbarment.»

Next, to the merits of the appeal, Mr. Stallan argued the trial judge's ruling had been based on a «simple misunderstanding» caused by an absence of consideration for certain excerpts of a trial transcripts in the Family Action below.

The Council argued that compensation could only be awarded in the period following the strike if the workload formula, in Article 11 (as modified by the Return to Work Protocol), generated additional hours that would merit extra pay.

However, because the firm takes pro bono cases primarily to provide an educational opportunity for the law students in the Harvard clinic, we usually require that the firm take the lead in writing the briefs and that any merits case be argued by one of the clinic instructors.

The complainant and the Ontario Human Rights Commission opposed the College's request to have the complaint dismissed, arguing that the complaint should be heard on its merits as the substance of the complaint had not been appropriately considered by HPARB (¶ 7).

Building on the ground - breaking work of John Borrows and others, we will argue that Aboriginal spiritual traditions have a home in this provision and merit a level of protection equal to that enjoyed by other faith groups in Canada.

I think it is irresponsible to argue against the merits of a product by discrediting the professionals that sell it.