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Speaking in Moscow, Jeremy Huck, president of BP Russia, said the company believed the actions were "without merit" .

I derive from it a gratification which those who are conscious of having done all that they could to merit it can alone feel.

During the campaign, Barack Obama said he would consider an overhaul or "complete repeal" of the merit pay system.

Civil society "is stronger in Egypt than I had known, " and its long-standing and "articulated set of institutions" merit support, she said.

Dye printing towel merit artistic, variety more changeable, after the shortcoming washes the variety to be easy to draw back.

Southeast University Law School Professor Zhang Malin that merit, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have long to realize that this point.

Imperial College London on the 24th June said it had a high proportion of foreign students as it chose on "merit" rather than nationality.

People have a certain kind of "merit" in mind when they speak glowingly of a meritocracy, and that kind of merit tends to run in the family.

We were very fortunate to be able to work with Her, so how could we not try our best and thus waste the merit that God had bestowed on us?

But the Republicans seem to have gone furthest in subordinating considerations of competence and merit to pro-life purity.

Good English was no longer an advantage to me, and I had to prove my merit through logic and reasoning.

I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove.

To merit the name, World Heritage sites need to encompass the intangibles, to be virtual at least as much as they're physical.

Merit tends to be measured by the number of training courses they have attended rather than by their competence.

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration said the drug was not effective enough to merit such risks.

The specific type of supernatural phenomenon to which your character is sensitive must be determined when this Merit is purchased.

Executives at Huawei said the Cisco suit had been settled and the Motorola suit had no merit.

He then showed me his piece for my opinion, and I much approved it, as it appeared to me to have great merit.

She had not, however, been named a National Merit finalist, dug a well for a village in Africa, or climbed to the top of Mount Rainier.

She did, however, agree to meet Senator Webb, suggesting she sees some merit in the American's new policy of engagement with her jailors.

In an emailed statement, a Goldman Sachs representative said the company believes the suit is 'without merit. '

that depends. If I love a girl, I can stand anything involved with her. You know, loving a person includes her merit and weakness.

The Reagan administration eventually dropped the case in 1982, asserting that it had been "without merit" .

It is understandable that this may not ultimately have been deemed workable - or, more likely, proved too expensive to merit such a project.

We ought to discover everyone's merit carefully but are not to have had the coloured eye at hand seeing others's shortcoming only.

In love, go slowly and try not to embellish the qualities of a new romantic interest that this person might not merit.

Some work is made for a certain object so that it is meaningful and has merit as well only if it is understandable to that certain object.

Mr Kouchner was one of the few Frenchmen to see merit in the Iraq intervention, though he criticised its aftermath.

As it executes, it gathers profiling data, used to decide which code sections are being executed frequently enough to merit compilation.

But "sword shaken into the wrong front" using them properly, might merit with well, are very easy to lose.

The system which has the merit of high integration, small volume, light weight and easy to carry, has a good prospect and practical value.

I guess there is fame, and then there is merit, and even from the distance of time, it's not always easy to tell which is which.

However, Col Gaddafi's death at least has the merit of depriving the remnants of the old regime of a figurehead to rally round.

Whatever the scientific merit of those studies, consumers are more wary of such products than they used to be.

Movement away from the current peg might be a symbolic gesture to appease the United States without having any material merit.

If it remains a while uncertain to whom the merit belongs, someone more vain than yourself may be encouraged to claim it.

Due to its merit of high energy conversion efficiency and less pollution, the research of fuel cell is of great value to electro catalysis.

Thank you. There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston.

he did not seem apt at conversation , but he had the merit of being well dressed and wholly courageous.

In this algorithm the unfitness function is chosen as a merit at the beginning of iteration and a new crossover operator is designed.

Everyone has ideas, and regardless of their actual merit, everyone thinks their ideas are just as good or better than anyone else's.

Some merit the name of eagles because they surpass all others and break through the clouds to the light of the sun.

Executives atHuawei said the Cisco suit had been settled and the Motorola suit had no merit.

It is quite another, as White House officials have done in the past, to describe climate change as a liberal cause without merit.

Don't panic. We'll take a look at it and see if there's any merit in the case. It might just be a frivolous lawsuit.

Because of the power of a chakravartin's merit, he is able to obtain the medicine with the true superior taste when he appears in the world.

If he true loves you, except appreciates your merit, also will contain your shortcoming, will other wise ask him to go away.

We eschew any "theory" of history, preferring to see merit in a number of basic concepts.

Nor did there seem to be any compelling correlation between merit and success.

Simply because the majority of the population does not understand it does not mean that the work of art has no merit.

As he paid this compliment to the merit of the absent charmer, MR. Brass came to a halt, looking doubtfully towards the light.

These narrow goals would hardly seem to merit flying more than a dozen U. S. cabinet members and agency heads crossing the Pacific.

CIBC said his claim was "without merit" and it intended to defend the matter "vigorously" .

He said his evaluation of the data indicates that many Internet companies merit their sky-high valuations.

At least some of these arguments have merit, says Julien Demoulin-Smith, an analyst at UBS.

Though he made some mistakes, he is not devoid of any merit.

We also suggest developing a merit-based incentive scheme most suitable to the Company subject to discussion with all concerned parties.

The relative attractiveness of its residents is only a minuscule factor in evaluating a city's merit.

I can see little merit in having Greece default to the public sector years of agony hence rather than to the private sector soon.

Rest assured that these allegations are completely untrue, and we fully expect that this lawsuit will be shown to have absolutely no merit.

I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.

Engineers are supposed to focus on the long term; buildings have no merit if they will collapse after a few years.

In reality, it would be foolish to make such a snap judgment without further investigation. . . but the technique does have some merit.

Your error messages and actions merit as much craftsmanship as the rest of your program.

If at least it had some artistic merit.

We continue to believe that Fox's claims have no merit and that we will ultimately prevail, whether at trial or in the Court of Appeals.

His greatest merit was to have worked with it totally, from opera to opo and operetta.

In view of this kind of situation, the wind transports transportation's merit on perfectly to manifest.

Whatever his rationale for criticizing the referees, Jackson insisted his comments did not merit his fine.

The long definition is a bit more involved, but it does merit consideration.

The Delegation felt that many of the recommendations appeared to have merit and support from many Member States.

Promotion should also be on merit, so that the best people get most responsibility and the pay to go with it.

Whomever dealing with, admit inferiority instead of superiority. Learn from others even if only a few merit can be found.

"We have to give merit to Bolivia who were better than us in every part of the field, " he went on.

At the end of this chapter we point out which of these areas we believe especially merit additional study.

The Jury Panel reserves the right to withhold an award if they find none of the entry merit a particular award and prize.

And I will gain merit with the fourth lump by giving it to the poor and needy and for other good works.

The only time a person can claim that "compassion" is a kind of merit is when he reflects on his own behaviors.

If the job were to be decided solely on merit and experience, his would be the strongest claim.

Her point was that a dud teacher teaches children to respect the authority of the office, even when the incumbent doesn't merit any.

Not much of it had lasting merit.

As in any significant undertaking, there are many options that might appear to have equal merit in terms of value to the organization.

I strongly believe the core values behind SOA have merit, but there needs to be a new label attached to it.

Having found these merit naturally is to turn they into self for making propagating for them , being going in the infant hood by no means.

Which country you think will merit that far more desirable title in 2010 depends of course on what criteria you use to pick a winner.

Mr. Lee said the government's acknowledgement of VIE structures implies acceptance of the structures' legal merit.

Just like, will for getting clutch of to fly merit badge dragon merely changing a plan for her? !

The company receives "appoints people on merit" the principle, creates a prospect broad platform diligently for each staff.

The local government in Cajamarca, headed by an ally of Mr Humala, questions the merit of the Conga project.

FDA advisers said last month the risk appeared real but that the evidence wasn't conclusive enough to merit pulling Avandia from the market.

FDA advisers said last month the risk appeared real but that the evidence wasn't conclusive enough to merit pulling Avandia from the market.

"Merit should count more than academic background, " he said.

At least 15 states also offer merit aid, typically in a bid to enroll top students in the state's public institutions.

This can help you gain lasting, merit-based links and loyal followers who generate direct traffic and "spread the word. "

A spokesman for the Swiss bank said the claims were "without merit" .

Huawei has said the allegations are completely without merit.

When a rule is broken, however, you will usually find inthe program some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation.

President Barack Obama is announcing a wide-ranging education policy that embraces merit pay for teachers and a longer school day and year.

But governments will need to be convinced of the merit of these arguments before mining can begin.

It has the merit of a show of honesty, while it puts the laborer completely at the mercy of the landowner and the shop-keeper.

In his time, the old gentleman was a working mason, and had risen form the ranks more, I think, by shrewdness than by merit.

This was mostly a bug-fix release, and it wouldn't normally merit mention in a year-in-review article.

The company tries to retain employees by giving merit-based pay increases that top most of its competitors, and other perks.

"We believe the suit has no merit and will defend ourselves vigorously, " it said.

Deloitte has said the legal claims are "utterly without merit. "

In fact, Watts explains, only about half of a song's success seemed to be due to merit.

Yet Mr Baron-Cohen's agenda is liberal and his arguments at least merit inspection.

'As long as the returns on investment are attractive and merit the risk that's involved, we don't have a problem, ' he said.

This year, she was granted the merit-award scholarship by the most prestigious French Political Science institution, Sciences Po Paris.

In many cases, it is possible that there are other employees who merit these advantages more than the brown-noser.

Citi said the allegations were without merit and it intended "to defend against them vigorously" .

The commission thinks Serbia has done enough to merit candidate status subject to "significant progress" in the Kosovo talks.

The second rationale has some merit provided the Bank of Japan really does resist the urge to mop up any liquidity.

To yield readily -- easily -- to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you.

The civil suit has no merit, and Mr. Strauss-Kahn will defend it vigorously. '

A world-embracing socialist system would therefore not merit the name of an economic system.

The teachers unions long ago eliminated merit pay, and made teachers' pay determined almost entirely by degrees and years spent teaching.

She has lately come to see the merit of fleshing out George Bush's skeletal "vision" of a two-state solution.

But one can reject that and still believe in the merit of a system in which people with strong views put their money where their mouth is.

Microsoft Thursday announced it would do away with merit pay increases for employees in the next fiscal year.

The new model of financing, in which debt is repackaged and risk is dispersed through a web of derivative contracts, has much merit.

Toyota said the latest lawsuits were without merit.

It must be added, however, that the merit and rights of the mere Understanding should unhesitatingly be admitted.

There are many reasons, but the two that merit the little bit of time is: one, the clarity of purpose is there.

That is not to say that the antitrust cases that are now under way are without merit, and have merely been stirred up by rival firms.

Teacher merit pay is an adventruous reform in teacher management as well as a further reform in basic education and teacher education.

It seems that the only time fathers merit attention is when they are criticized for not helping enough with the housework or when they die.

He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men, and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt.

His career was very comprehensive, as noted above, as he attained an extraordinary list of accomplishments of highest merit.

I suppose there is merit in the truth that design and artistic preference evolve over time and with prolonged exposure.

Huawei has said the suit is 'utterly without merit. '

Experiences of pleasure and of pain are the fruits of merit and demerit, respectively.

Working smart is another one that deserves equal merit as well but what exactly does working smart mean and what does it entail?

I will let you know at once if at any point your performance would merit a grade below C.

Huawei cried foul and said the deal didn't merit review because it wasn't an outright acquisition.

The current situation does not merit it, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) reassured markets they could be used, if needed.

And now -- what had she done, or what had she omitted to do, to merit such a change?

In chapter two, from the theory of Service-Oriented Architecture, points out the merit of this structure.

One of his pieces was awarded Merit in the Biannual Art Exhibition.

From these quickly-digestible clues, both your regular readers and social media readers can evaluate the merit of your content.

This panel has given heart to Mr Gibbons, who says he has insights of his own that merit a hearing.

Sometimes, however, we have debated a subject and decided that it currently does not merit inclusion in Wikipedia.

The strong possibility exists that GH response to GRF administration in young bulls may be a valuable indicator of genetic merit.

Annual renewal of academic merit scholarships depends on whether the recipients remain _.

A CONTEMPORARY work of art can provoke outrage disproportionate to its artistic merit.

And to have merit, according to mahayana, you must have compassion and bodhichitta, the wish to establish beings in the state of freedom.

Do not raise an eyebrow at the beliefs or choices of others, even if you do not find reason or merit in them.

Simultaneously the computer, is having the merit which the manual administration center is unable to compare.

Mr. Obama said he instead would ensure that hires are based on merit, rather than party or ideology.

Confucianism thought; Administrative ethic; Governing with morals; People oriented; Appoint people on their merit; Administrative justice.

Keith was a Cub Scout in the 1950s, he had a great urge to do good deeds and pile up merit badges.

Medicare will have to be reformed, and Mr Ryan's plan is not without merit.

Kuhn's most unique merit of his theory lies in holding the essence of science and he has the historical angle of view.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as lithe as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

In China , merit means that the phenomenon of money pass, only to have more crazy with the money .

The merit and shortcoming, the application fields, the stability of the voltage model and current model have been analyzed.

This method can be prospectively applied in the engineering with the merit of simple operation and low environmental condition.

The principle and merit of the proposed stirrer are introduced in the beginning.

The answer lies in its characteristics and the merit of using everyday language to facilitate communication with the public.

Although these warnings aren't without merit, I see Fenner's belief that all of mankind may not exist in a century to be overly pessimistic.

A good leader must be able to appoint people on their merit.

Advancement depends on merit and we have yet to find the limits to the responsibility our best people are able to assume.

Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go.

There are, no doubt, other books about science that merit some distinction.

Eg. And paper had a merit, especially in Sweden: it was not only lighter than copper, but easier to come by than silver or gold.

Provide cost analysis on compensation and benefits programs as well as the annual merit increase exercise.

You, Hetty, may not know what a merit it is a man to have truth.

Personal merit cannot be achieved through our associations with people of excellence.

If Timber Hill steps away, others are likely to follow, and investors will find many options prices worse than market conditions may merit.

Other education specialists have different ways to determine merit pay that may be worth considering.

Moreover, an additional merit of the method is to provide the exponentially convergent velocity of the solutions.

Yet the immediate outlook for the economy is so bleak that there seems little merit in holding fire.

State immunity is an international principle with the theory of sovereign equality as its legal merit.

The drill sergeant and professor are at least human and have bona fide experience and merit.

taking on the merit of saving load and time , enhancing yield , precision planting is the direction of planting.

Tempting as it is to crunch agencies together to remove gaps, some checks and balances between regulators have merit.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestor.

The appetite for scandal in the average office is prodigious, but the scandal needs to be fresh to merit continued discussion.

Both of these environments have merit and value, so it is really a matter preference.

That said, he should seek to hire staff on the basis of merit, not nationality.

The system uses the database support to ensure that merit inquiry, retrieval, backup performance.

Given the stakes, the next IMF head must be picked purely on merit.

In a well-ordered world, there would be merit in extending the US approach to global banks.

Though it was possible that wouldn't be true after the merit. But was that a bad thing?

Sagan felt that the project also had scientific merit in that the cloud itself could be closely examined for possible organic material.

I feel waves of relief when I 'get through' a difficult experience, more than the situation seemed to merit.

He was sincerely convinced of his own merit.

This view has at least the merit of giving a correct expression to the nature of all consciousness.

But they are also trying to widen pay differentials further down the organisation: about 90% of American firms use merit pay, for example.

but why have not I the merit, the talents, the wit, or the beauty, of such and such others, is a reproach rarely or never made to nature.

based on the merit of his job performance , john was chosen as the winner of the employee of the month award.

This at least had the merit of simplicity.

He estimated that as many as 6 of every 10 students would flunk if they had to advance on merit.

every fault into a merit, and will frankly convict himself of being the honestest fellow in existence.

Mr. Soros's lawyer, William D. Zabel, said in a statement that the lawsuit is 'frivolous and entirely without merit. '

The systems of stock market risk management in foreign countries can be grouped into three which have their merit and demerit.

Man was not to seek merit to be worthy of God, but to accept by faith what God had done for him.

Merit consists in seeing into the nature of affairs a very great deal farther than anybody else.

The merit of multifractal approach for researching self- organized criticality of granular mixtures theory and application are clarified.

Looking the wall pasted fully with certificates of merit, Mr. He recalled the past of the rural primary school with emotion.

McCain seeks "a path to citizenship for immigrants based on merit, " he said.

After analysis on the merit and demerit of the two guidelines, the article introduces the specific method of adjusting the transfer price.

Some Members remarked that the principles now under discussion are too shallow and do not merit our time and efforts.

Their writings, though of varying merit, have the common advantage of presenting an outsider 's point of view.

It would be a happier night if elections were a test of valour and merit alone, but that is not for us to question now.

He held that the book's literary merit was irrelevant because a well-written obscene book was even more harmful than a poorly written one.

It simply did not merit the same response.

What is the use of time, rewards of merit, medals, crosses, Monthyon prizes, if they do not lead society towards more complete perfection?

Fifth part: Has carried on the system summary to the new teaching material merit and the existence question.

Buildings of special merit; efforts should be made to selectively preserve .

The merit of related transaction is both transacting parties'familiarization of information, cost saving in transaction and efficiency.

Evil and darkness are the same. Darkness means not seeing, not knowing, not understanding. Merit and knowledge are the same.

Council staff screens complaints and submits those of potential merit for adjudication under council procedures.

Potential deleterious effects of low intake of polyunsaturated fat and fiber among suicide attempters merit further investigation.

"Artistic merit scholarships require that applicants excel in a given artistic area" .

The assignment editor runs through a list of scheduled events that may or may not merit coverage.

Achieving desirable outcomes is not enough; moral merit lies in the right intentions that are freely willed.

But at the time of release, while many saw great merit in the movie, others were not so happy.

Due to a series of merit on laser technology, the practical foreground of the laser carving used on industrial manufacture is very wide.

Having a merit on communication, organization, regulation; Mastering ebullient working attitude.

At the turn of the centuries, some issues that merit attention occurred in traditional literary writing and studies.

American Medical Response of Connecticut denied the labor board's allegations, saying they were without merit.

Tannery wastewater treatment was estimated, and its merit and disadvantage were pointed.

The IMF needs to assess the merit of eurozone rescue programmes independently of what regional politics dictates.

Later Lala told her it's what appetency called which could be wrote into the year-end summary as merit for herself.

We must have enough merit to see their manifestation forms.

In terms of human freedom, the merit of diversity must depend on precisely how it is brought about and sustained.

but by the content of his character, his merit, his achievements.

beings , through no fault , and no merit of my own.

Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, said with regard to women, their greatest merit was tobe never heard of.

Through implementation of benchmarking , the organization can know themselves clearly and pick abundantly the other people's merit to use.

Some become part of the problem: They use connections to judge grant applicants and undervalue scientific merit.

That does not detract from his merit.

All merit their place in history.

has no method for assaying merit.

The employees are usually promoted or transferred on the basis of performance and merit rather than seniority.

Chapter one analyzes and epitomes the practice and evolution of Pingyang urban renewal, generalizes the experience that merit for reference.

My extensive experience with film gives me the ability to make my own judgments of relative merit.

A simple but important start would be to distribute all of the new funds based on merit, without regard to connections.

System's development unified these two kind of technical merit to carry on the development well to the system.

While most of the fields can be left at their default settings, some merit further explanation.

Use the language that will speak most effectively to your future employer and allow your accomplishments to shine on their own merit.

The merit of such a focused approach is that Java developers in user organizations can use the ideas to build their own simple pilot SOA.

Of course, elements shared by multiple users or by all batch jobs in a read-only capacity merit a longer cache lifetime.

This course offers students opportunities to critically evaluate the adequacy and scientific merit of research protocols.

The results indicated that compared with common adhesives, KGM had the merit of environmental protection even if they had the same property.

Then in detail this paper introduces the merit and the feasibility of the expert system unifies with the plastic injection mould.

While these fundamental explanations have merit, it's difficult to determine precisely why stocks tend to buckle in these two months.

Conversation at the lunch table ranges from spilt-over class discussions to the merit of videogames to plans for afternoon labor.

This article through to the Iraqi strength special customer loyalty analysis, discovers its merit and the insufficiency, gives own comment.