All these aspects merit keen attention.

Organic products may merit particular attention in this respect

If an idea has merit, it has merit.

Certain areas, however, such as renewable energy sources and desertification monitoring and assessment, would merit closer attention in future reports.

Given their gravity and magnitude, the humanitarian crises of Africa merit more of our attention and our political and financial resources.

Promotion of compliance with international standards and re establishment of local norms that promote child protection and welfare also merit priority attention.

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

Counsellor (merit), June 1994

A certificate of merit...

We feel that the proposal of Brazil, India, Germany and Japan has aspects of great interest that we support and that merit the soonest possible attention.

Second Secretary (merit), December 1981

First Secretary (merit), December 1987

And no merit but one.

What other merit have we?

There is merit to this practice.

Minister Second Class (merit), June 2000

Minister Second Class (merit), April 1978

1. Merit based appointment and promotion

Play every ball on its merit.

The main criterion is merit and qualifications.

The only consideration is qualification and merit.

Minister First Class, Ambassador (merit), December 1984

What has He done to merit this?

Such was the situation in the Horn of Africa, where the refugee problem, which affected Ethiopia, continued to merit the attention of the international community despite being overshadowed by developments elsewhere.

Rio Branco Order of Merit, Brazil, 1990, 1994

(a) Appointments should continue to be based on merit

This delegate saw some merit in ambiguity of terminology.

These cases are reviewed on the basis of merit.

Many of these have merits and merit our approval.

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.

Neither does a virtue recently initiated, merit the name virtue.

In this context, the findings of a recent study (Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, 2005) on the effect of China's and India's growth and trade liberalization on poverty in Africa merit attention.

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.

The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.

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.