On countless Web forums, fans debate the All Star merits of various players.
The crash of 1929 made the public aware for the first time that, for all their merits, equities had serious flaws (as did Wall Street brokers, happy to sell their own portfolios before those of their clients).
For all its merits, Silicon Valley can definitely be too insular, and this is often expressed both through lack of engagement with the world at large and in a lack of perspective about the true value and potential of technology.
Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa all argue that Africa merits two permanent seats and each thinks it deserves one of them.
But as I watch activists, journalists, historians, politicians, technologists, media experts and regular people all around the world challenge the merits of the video and motives of its makers, one question stands out above all.
These are highly intelligent people who will all get either distinctions or merits.
But I think that what's great about our political system is that we are all judged on our own merits.
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NDCs, despite their merits, can solve all the problems of public-pension systems at a stroke.
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Seniority, personal connections, a reluctance to talk about individual merits or faults - all confuse the issue.
This is one of the merits in such an all-inorganic system while some conventional systems cannot follow the light power in general because of their internal or external rate-limiting processes in the complex structures.
Potential investors, customers and employees all need to be sold on the merits of a new company.
In other words, there's now a standard for whether appeals courts even really get to the merits of an appeal at all in death-penalty cases.
At that point, routinized court-endorsed people-plus-technology processes will enable all litigants to more readily get to the merits.
On the corporate front, the focus was on Vodafone, as Mannesmann's board convened to discuss Vodafone's all-share terms and investors assessed its merits and chances of success.
Argue the merits of farm subsidies with these people all you want.
Greenlight is hopeful that when Apple and its advisers review the idea afresh, it will see the merits and act to unlock value for all shareholders.
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"Greenlight is hopeful that when Apple and its advisers review the idea afresh, it will see the merits and act to unlock value for all shareholders, " the hedge fund said Thursday.
But the bigger explanation for the persistent strength of the opposition has nothing to do with the merits of the argument or national debate at all.
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All investments, he says, are judged on their commercial merits.
This industry, along with all others, will have to succeed or fall on its merits in the marketplace without being propped up by government spending that we can ill afford.
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"As with all other applications the proposal will be considered on its own individual merits, " he said.
"Each litigation case is dealt with on its merits and, so far as the evidence allows, all claims are robustly defended, " said the spokesman.
If research in this area were based solely on its scientific merits and was not stoked by public anxiety we would all be better off.
For all Tepebasi's dome-and-minaret orthodoxy, the practical merits of reinforced concrete over masonry mean they got barely a pastiche.
Of all the figures surrounding the current story, that is perhaps the one that most merits further interrogation.
They're free to judge the merits of the project, and this project will be watched closely by all sides of the issue.
During this period all the cardinals - retirees included - will begin to discuss in strict secrecy the merits of likely candidates.
"As with all major planning applications I am making decisions quickly after giving careful consideration to the individual merits of each case, " he said.
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