Sentences with phrase «much merit for»

Frankly, I don't think it has that much merit for becoming a faster runner.

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That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

There is much discussion of the merits and implications of possible candidates for the job.

If not for the fact that I write these weekly comments to address everything - favorable and unfavorable - with my shareholders, I wouldn't consider a pullback of 6.5 % as meriting much discussion.

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But, for the most part, I think this view has some merit, and does help explain what Jesus might have meant in John 16:12 where He said He had much more to teach, but could not do so because they were not ready to hear it.

Sabio, the comments, though merited in their content, leave much room for improvement regarding delivery.

We all realise that it is not the aspect of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage which is going to inspire and attract in our secular age, but there is no mention of the «remedy for concupiscence» angle or much on Original Sin, which I would have thought merited more than a passing nod.

A much more plausible explanation is to assume that Plantinga has not significantly modified his position for the same reason that Griffin has not significantly modified his position: because he doesn't believe that any of the criticisms leveled against his position thus far merit such modification.

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!

Dr. Harold W. Watts, for example, presented a scheme in 1972 to the Democratic Platform Committee which has much merit.10 It would replace the whole system of present public assistance programs and individual income tax schedules.

For all the merits of debate between Keynesians and libertarians, much is left out.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

Eriksen has helped Ajax to three successive Eredivisie titles and feels he has achieved as much as he can at the Amsterdam club, and whilst the Danish international can indeed enjoy Champions League football he is looking for a fresh challenge and Rodgers will hope to convince the 21 year old of the long term merits of joining a Liverpool side that are responsibly building for the future.

(Apologies for being a bit snappy, but seriously, that argument doesn't really have much merit.)

I am sure that the debate will be raging just as much as ever among Arsenal fans about the merits of our England international star Theo Walcott and whether or not he can provide the Gunners with a good enough option for the centre forward position.

Mourinho is keen to plan for the future and believes Barkley has the potential to be a player of great merit and by the summer if Roberto Martinez's side haven't shown much improvement, and haven't secured European football for next term, then the midfielder may well be ready to press ahead with a move to a side that can help his career progression.

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

And while there is much blurring, with some sick of Wenger but wanting him to bow out with a trophy and a legacy, and others who have supported his retention now angling for a change, that is our analytical right as fans — we can love the man yet get frustrated with him, we can support him and despair at some of his decisions, and we can debate his merits and flaws ad nauseam.

It seems sensible to address - as you do - the Blond argument on its own merits, rather than to buy the idea that this is an emerging Cameronism, for which the evidence seems pretty much entirely lacking.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

For now, though, skepticism is very much merited.

Two of the reasons for the proliferation of the «Shadow Government» are so that the State does not appear to be the entity that acquires additional debt, and to provide State pensions for people not in the classified Civil Service who theoretically, (although much now is very fixed, going back to Mario Cuomo and continued by Pataki, Spitzer and Paterson) must face non-partisan Merit and Fitness competition for appointments and promotions.

For now, it embodies many of the issues that the Arab Human Development Report blamed for the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the regiFor now, it embodies many of the issues that the Arab Human Development Report blamed for the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the regifor the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the region.

Although scientific merit may still be the key to the success of smaller research grants, such as those from China's National Natural Science Foundation, it is much less relevant for the megaproject grants from various government funding agencies, which range from tens to hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (7 yuan equals approximately 1 U.S. dollar).

Kawchuk, who practised as a chiropractor before going on to obtain his PhD in biomechanics and bioengineering, said the results do not advocate one way or another for spinal manipulation but help explain why there has been so much conflicting data about its merits.

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And it changed everything for me, as I got MUCH better at sifting and sorting, determining who merited a first, second, and third date and... who didn't.

Older kids will probably make fun of it for being corny, and adults familiar with Herbie might feel there is too much déjà vu in the scant story to merit making yet another sequel.

To Ubisoft's credit, they did as much as they really could have with the original content, and should be merited for the game's feature set; especially the online four player co-op.

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.

In focusing on the audience, the fest capitalizes on the fact that we're all here and there's not much else to do than just sit in theaters all day long, arguing about the merits of cinema and drinking beer while waiting for the next screening to start.

I'm not sure if there's a need for a debate as to whether the first Charlie's Angels is better than the second, as filmmaking this superficial doesn't really merit much thought or analysis, but I can state that I personally found the second go around to be easier to endure.

While there is merit in looking at a previous release for hints into what we should expect, there's only so much two vastly different games can potentially have in common.

Probs not much of a precursor for major categories given past winners, but interesting nonetheless on its own merits.

Perhaps he put in too much, as the downfall of Basic comes from being too ambitious, contorting itself until it becomes too difficult to follow for first time viewers, and not really entertaining enough to merit a second viewing.

I won't go so far as to say it's without merit, as it does pose interesting questions, but it seemed like it belonged in a much different movie than the one that had been developing for the first hour and 20 minutes.

Similarly, we've spent much of these last few weeks gradually losing assurance that the beautifully realized characters, brisk rising action, incisive dialogue, and political resonance of both Greta Gerwig's script for Lady Bird and Jordan Peele's for Get Out will on their merits be able to stave off Martin McDonagh's work on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The former tends to be a lot fluffier — its extras aim to put you at ease for purchasing a disposable film but don't have much merit in their own right.

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.

Much will be learned from these experiences in the years ahead, but for the time being one immediate takeaway merits repeating: Local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs.

There's no ready estimate of how much districts spend for extracurriculars: Districts account differently for teachers» afterschool pay (it can be lumped in with merit pay, says Stephen Frank of Education Resource Strategies), whether they include team buses in the extracurricular budget, how much they depend on parents and booster clubs for field maintenance and stage - set construction, if and how much they charge students to participate, whether they use federal Title I funds for afterschool enrichment, and so on.

«There have been waves of merit pay initiatives in the past, and every time someone recommends it anew, it's as if it's never been done before,» says Johnson, who recently coauthored Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators, a book garnering much attention in the education world by advocating a radically different approach to teacher pay that encourages teacher career development through a four - tier system of promotion.

There's much to be said for an older philanthropic tradition in which the donor waits to be approached by someone who might have a plan, a project, or an idea with merit that never would have occurred to the people with money to give.

Parents like Jordan's who advocate actively for their child's involvement in enrichment and gifted education tend to believe that those programs are based on merit and that they need to make sure that school staff know how worthy their child is and how much the program would benefit from their inclusion.

Perhaps so much disruption would be deemed worthwhile if Michigan had anything of merit to show for it.

We disagree on much, including big issues like merit pay for teachers and the best strategies for school choice.

While individual school cultures remain, a much more level playing field exists for those seeking promotion through merit, using the teaching standards to justify their claims.

If you're looking for a large luxury saloon that's engaging and rewarding to drive, then the XJ has much of merit to offer.

The change should be for the better as now a review should hold merit, in so much as it shall reflect the book.