meritorious

This means we lose out on a potentially meritorious technical talk, but finding a replacement speaker isn't that difficult.

DST is a stupid hack for artificially controlling economic forces, and has no meritorious bearing on timekeeping itself.

You can't simply say that it's meritorious to work hard at whatever it is that makes one succeed.

One problem is that a lot of people look at equity grants as a meritorious service award.

Which isn't to say that network-building isn't meritorious, but you can't use that particular argument for it.

There is also great pressure on the males to show how meritorious and deserving they are economically, in 'attracting' a mate.

Would it be objectively meritorious to spend less on defense and more on alternative energy?

The difference with academia is that what qualifies as 'meritorious' is far less pragmatic.

This obvious propaganda glosses over the problem of deciding what is and is not meritorious, and who does the monitoring of whom.

Having the wherewithal and self awareness to develop a professional network is meritorious.

This leaves plenty of intelligent and meritorious people with poor educations and thus poor prospects, which tends to carry over to their kids.

A private citizen cannot force prosecution, no matter how meritorious the case.

How do you define "merit" in Silicon Valley and how do you know the "most meritorious" are the ones winning?

How many Tolerance Points have I earned for my meritorious deeds?” Bodhidharma answers: “None at all”.

This means that quadrupling sales is better than doubling prices and books "that lots of people like" will always be dramatically more successful than books that are "neither artistic, meritorious, or even popular".