1 If something merits a particular treatment, it deserves or is considered important enough to be treated in that way: --
2 the quality of being good and deserving praise, or a good quality: --
3 to deserve something: --
These recommendations merit careful attention.
4 the quality of being good and deserving to be praised or rewarded, or an advantage that something has: --
5 extra pay given to employees who have done their job well and made noticeable improvements in the company, department, etc.: --
Each work is judged on its merits and in many cases, [by virtue of an artist's] previous output.
Nonetheless, the impact of first-degree atrioventricular block merits including the topic in this review.
Despite the breadth of topics discussed in the book, there are three subjects that should have merited more consistent attention.
While the scheme has many merits, it mainly serves the white community and older people who are fit and able to care for themselves.
Rather, depending on what property is emphasised, there are many different families of curves, each with merits and disadvantages.
My theory thus sheds a novel light on the arguments about the merits and dangers of different forms of executive structure.
However, we cannot assess the merits of those views without first listening to the arguments advanced in support of them.
Clearly, my review should stand or fall on its merits, not some alleged rule invented by my two detractors.
