My father, very inventive, spatial thinker.

We can be astonishingly inventive and creative.

High performing systems have made teachers and school principals inventive.

But the idea has a merit. The idea has a merit.

So I had a very inventive teacher, a Pakistani Muslim, who wanted to teach us about this.

Counsellor (merit), June 1994

Second Secretary (merit), December 1981

First Secretary (merit), December 1987

And these tend to be some of the most independent, tenacious, intuitive, you know, inventive people you will ever meet.

The Protetch Gallery recently had a show on ideas for buildings, which had some sort of inventive ideas of buildings.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

There is merit to this practice.

Minister Second Class (merit), June 2000

All these aspects merit keen attention.

The main criterion is merit and qualifications.

The only consideration is qualification and merit.

And these and many similar experiences convinced me that there are just tons of bright kids in Africa inventive kids, intellectual kids and starved of opportunity.

Lo! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,

Lo! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,

However, we also recognize the merit of paragraph 24 (b).

We believe that the proposed measures merit our serious consideration.

The proposal for a standing fund for peacebuilding has merit.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

The decision to establish child protection task teams also has merit.

We agree that they merit a proper place in our system.

The final selection is based entirely upon merit regardless of gender.

We have employed innovative, homegrown ideas such as microcredit financing, non formal education for women, social forestation and the inventive use of information and communications technology for development.

Several delegations indicated that topics A, B and C all had merit.

Repetitive this may sound but these agreed parameters merit repetition and reiteration.

Rather, the appellant has an erroneous or different understanding of its merit.

FCN treaties merit special examination as a changing area of international law.

Members of CEB are not quite clear about the merit of this recommendation.

Accordingly, this aspect of the communication should be dismissed for lack of merit.

Alternatively, this aspect of the communication should also be dismissed as lacking merit.

The court decreed that admission to medical colleges should be on open merit.

Scholarships are based on academic performance purely on the basis of open merit.

We commend the inventive ways adopted by the ICTY to speed up trials, including the shortening of briefs, the three court system and expediting appeals and the translation of trial judgements.

Surely most of them merit the decree of chastisement so they do not believe.

Surely most of them merit the decree of chastisement so they do not believe.

The constructive proposals in the draft resolution merit the support of the international community.

Many exercise this option and the courts consider and decide such cases on merit.

There is merit in both positions but much more in the Spanish and Italian argument.

Governments were advised that future selection will be based on merit and not national allocation.

Disarmament conventions merit the support of all States, small or large, nuclear or non nuclear.

Such merit is usually understood to be academic achievement, a combination of talent and training. This is measured by academic degrees, which in turn are graded on merit A, B, C, D, or First, Upper Second, Lower Second, Third.