Sentences with phrase «much merit even»

None of the penalty appeals had much merit even for a ref inclined to award so many as Mr Oliver.

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Having family members who fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and even the American Revolution, people who believed that those wars were just, I wonder if an opinion from my armchair has as much merit as theirs.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

so much so that they seek out something without any merit nor even a shredd of evidence and then claim it to be more then truth but the word of god who for all intents and purposes is equal to every other make believe creature in the entire history of man - kind!

Zephyr Teachout quotes this description in Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Harvard University Press), a book that merits the large readership it may get thanks to the author's recent appearance on «The Daily Show,» even if much of that interview concerned her remarkable dark - horse gubernatorial campaign in New York state's Democratic primary, in which anti-corruption was one of her major themes.

Details of this astounding tale — the spectacular paper sent by an unknown working in obscurity, the instant recognition of its merit, even the appointment to the IAS — are reminiscent of another, much more famous, researcher.

And even though it doesn't have the same emotional pull, and its storytelling drifts much more toward the conventional, it stands alone on its own merits.

Hell, even Boyhood might be able to secure a win but I'm guessing that voters didn't think that the merits of Boyhood lay in the script so much as the process itself.

Assembling a game cast of collaborators including Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen and Amber Heard, Bell attempts to subvert new - relationship conventions for a meditation on the merits of longtime commitment, in the process overworking «he / she drives me crazy but I love him / her anyway» clichés without producing much in the way of insight, storytelling or even the effervescent humor that is fast becoming her trademark.

It had merit then and has even more today, if only because the passing decades have brought so much more evidence that the original versions of these programs don't do much for kids.

Even though money was not yet tied to this decision, I appealed, won my case, and later underwent a much - improved process at another school and was awarded «merit pay.»

The study speculated that the high pressures surrounding teaching and testing — before merit pay was even introduced — might explain why introducing the new incentives did not change outcomes very much.

The post even so has much merit to it:

To be really clear, if the ideas of people like Bob Ayres have merit [that energy * efficiency is a big component of economic growth, i.e., much of «Total Factor Productivity»], it is * even * more important to move faster and harder on efficiency and sustainable - energy replacements, and to stretch oil & gas supplies as long as possible.

Nevertheless, the concept of a Tuscany Day certainly has merit, even if it is built on a slightly utopian view of the region — how much could we all get done if we avoided unnecessary travel, even for just one day a week?

And they realize how much it can cost to defend a claim, even if it does not have any merit, just to get it to a motion for summary disposition.

Speaking of price, even the law itself doesn't merit much respect these days.

You're probably right because, in most cases, the SRL's, even if their case has merit in the abstract, haven't brought the minimally necessary proof to court, or they've brought so much hay with them that the needle of key evidence can't be found.

If widely adopted, he hopes it will put an end to this confusion, and make new crypto users more apt to purchase bitcoin, if even in tiny amounts, instead of cryptocurrencies that he thinks might come back to bite them, since many of the cheap altcoins don't have much technical merit to back them up.