In Myanmar, where Buddhist temples and monks proliferate, merit is attained through good deeds such as the release of caged birds and trapped fish.
You do a good job and you are rewarded with merit pay and get promoted.
Luck, both good and bad, plays a part in every life--though people tend to imagine that the good luck is a consequence of personal merit, while the bad luck springs from some malevolent outside source.
This argument may have merit, but it is too complicated to do any good as voter bait.
But Conservative David Nuttall called for candidates to be chosen on merit rather than any other criteria, telling MPs: "good candidates will always rise to the top".
We must go forward in our commitment to the new basics, giving parents greater authority and making sure good teachers are rewarded for hard work and achievement through merit pay.
The imposing price, combined with the rarity of the work, was enough to merit mention in her daily column, and the glossy photo provided a good illustration.
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Arguments that this pipeline will somehow harm the environment are without merit, and should finally, at long last be ignored in favor of good public policy.
It works best when a good idea rises up organically and travels from market to market on its own merit.
"When you play with the best player of our generation, it's interesting and a good experience, " said Montgomerie, who won seven straight European Order of Merit titles from 1993 to 1999.
For a brief period, starting in the early 1990s and ending in the late 2000s, there was a widespread belief that the internet ought to stay open, allowing anyone with a good idea to present it online and have it evaluated based on its own merit and not on the size of the wallet supporting it.
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