How To Use Demerit In A Sentence

The Literati: some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, etc. Life of Charles Dickens
Double demerit points for motorists caught speeding in 40 kph school zones was one suggestion put forward at a public forum last week.
A succade to follow your eggs, which you shall have if you demerit it. All's Well Alice's Victory
Drink driving is a crime and is expensive (double fines and double demerit points).
Double demerits will be in force for all traffic offences this Anzac Day long weekend.

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I pulled her quick into the restroom, before a hall monitor could come and give us demerits.
Instead, he surveys the answers and disagreements found in the vast literature of the subject, giving his own incisive judgment on the merits and demerits of the various authors concerned.
Est porcus ille qui sacerdotem ex amplitudine redituum sordide demeritur. Anatomy of Melancholy
In the paper, she highlighted various merits and demerits of the mechanically operated automatic toothbrush as against the manually operated one.
To be fair I haven't ever been at a Compromise or International rules match so I can't really comment on its merits or demerits but I can offer an opinion.
We need to consider the merits and demerits of the plan.
TV has its merits and demerits.
Catholic Doctrine: (i) All men are equal in that all come from the hand of the same Creator, all have been redeemed by Jesus Christ, and all will be judged, rewarded or punished by God according to the exact measure of their merits and demerits. (cf encyclical Quod Apostolici muneris (Pope Leo XIII), Dec. 28, 1878). Archive 2007-10-14
Full marks for actually responding, demerits for tardiness.
A further 81 drivers were booking for speeding, despite double demerit points.
She told her managers she needed to go home because she was contagious, but Walmart informed her that she would get a "demerit" if she worked less than 4 hours. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
* Eleanor Clift loses one of her uncountably many demerits in agitating for Howard Dean to HHS. Saturday Night « Gerry Canavan
‘I do not intend to do so; it would be entirely inappropriate for me to engage in public debate on the merits or demerits of the Bill,’ he wrote.
From midnight tonight until midnight Monday March 3, double demerit point infringements will be issued for those who fail to follow the rules.
Interdum quoque sensimus tanquam graues baculorum ictus, per humeros, dorsa, latera, et ad renes, alij quidem grauiores, alij vt puta secundum demeritum vniuscuiusque. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Whatever the merits or demerits of any of these policies, the liberal label would never fit if the word still meant what it once meant.
LOTHIAN: Ayers doesn't think their casual connection should be a-- quote -- "demerit" on Obama's record. CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2008
The upshot of the merit and demerit of human actions rests upon this basis, that nothing is so much in the power of our will as our will itself, and that we have this free-will -- this, as it were, two-edged faculty -- and this elative power between two counsels which are immediately, as it were, within our reach. The Existence of God
Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
Indeed, the party stopped is hardly regarded as a person: no account is taken of his demerits: he is regarded simply as an abridger and diminisher of what you have a right to preserve intact. Moral Philosophy
But what had disturbed Jill even more than the demerit was the failure of the colleague present at her belittlement to speak a single word in her defense. Bladewire - Washington Blade
He dressed for the occasion, received higher class audiences, held forth on the merits and demerits of the film and was usually an expert on public taste.
Through its actions it burdens itself with merit and demerit, the consequences of which it has to bear or enjoy in series of future embodied existences, the Lord -- as a retributor and dispenser -- allotting to each soul that form of embodiment to which it is entitled by its previous actions. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
There are heated arguments about the merits and demerits of studying with the television set turned on, especially when it is examination time.
* Eleanor Clift loses one of her uncountably many demerits in agitating for Howard Dean to HHS. Saturday Night « Gerry Canavan
This, even with Australia's ubiquitous double demerit penalty that applies during any public holiday.
Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget.
Double demerits for speeding and seatbelt offences over the Easter period have been extended to 11 days to include the Anzac Day holiday weekend.
We need to consider the merits and demerits of the plan.
The amendment proposes to add 10 demerit points to that offence.
To get a favourable rating, employees may endorse every action of their superiors without analysing its merits and demerits.
The endurer, in such a case, communicates the demerit of all his own bad acts to the person who under the influence of wrath indulges in abuse. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
I never thought of this business of merit and demerit, which is able to change our lives in the twinkling of an eye, and which actually brought me down to a pretty low estate. Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends
everlasting fire of hell" can only have been intended from all eternity for sin and demerit, that is, for neglect of Christian charity, in the same sense in which it is inflicted in time. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Maybe after elections, when the passions will cool down the whole issue would be considered on its merits and demerits without bringing in extraneous and irrelevant issues.
Poe, Edgar A. -- The Literati: some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, etc. Life of Charles Dickens
So, if you would like to read, or have already read, these books and are interested in having some lively discussion on their merits or demerits, contact Deirdre on the number above.
Governments continue to agonise about ways of reducing the road toll, through speeds, more police, double demerit points, more advertising.
Demerit points alone can be used to predict a driver's subsequent crash involvement, but an even better model can be produced by including prior casualty crash involvements as well.
While I'm dishing out the demerits, lest you think it was all distaff damage, know that my father went through a rather extraordinary ice-cream phase.
Then people will concentrate on the merits or demerits of the book.
Regardless of the intent of some, the proposal should be judged only on its merits or demerits.
ten demerits and he loses his privileges
TV has its merit and demerit.
It's like getting a speeding ticket, paying for nothing and getting demerits on your record besides.
At that time, I will try to set out what I think are the chief merits and demerits of our Constitutional proposal.
The so-called ‘realistic’ Budget has some merits and demerits.
She told her managers she needed to go home because she was contagious, but Walmart informed her that she would get a "demerit" if she worked less than four hours. Walmart's Sick Day Policy Hurts Workers, Families, and Customers
He dressed for the occasion, received higher class audiences, held forth on the merits and demerits of the film and was usually an expert on public taste.
So all in all, with some demerits for screwups and gold stars for effort, I think it's fair to say that as a worker, a jobholder, I deserve a B or maybe B+. Nickel and Dimed
they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel
Making 'demerit' goods (that produce negative externalities) expensive does not magically stop people from consuming them. Times, Sunday Times
The double demerit point system is going to be evaluated by the Office of Road Safety not too far down the track.
There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the system, that combined with these principles of self-reliance and perfectibility, Buddhism has incorporated to a certain extent the doctrine of fate or "necessity," under which it demonstrates that adverse events are the general results of _akusala_ or moral demerit in some previous stage of existence. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
That which intimately comprises the nature of repentance is, sorrow on account of sin committed, and of its demerit, which is so much the deeper, as the acknowledgment of sin is clearer, and more copious. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
So, if you would like to read, or have already read, these books and are interested in having some lively discussion on their merits or demerits, contact Deirdre on the number above.
The happy or unprosperous event of any action, is not only apt to give us a good or bad opinion of the prudence with which it was conducted, but almost always too animates our gratitude or resentment, our sense of the merit or demerit of the design.
Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
It has introduced the football equivalent of the ‘double demerit points’ various states use as blatant revenue raisers over holiday periods.
Let us look at the merits and demerits of centrally governed cities.
The preparation of catalysts , yield of glyceryl triacetate and and demerits the catalysts were introduced briefly.
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Double demerit points for speeding and seatbelt offences will operate from December 19 to January 2.
+ So-called negative reprobation, which is commonly defended by those who maintain election to glory antecedently to foreseen merits, means that simultaneously with the predestination of the elect God either positively excludes the damned from the decree of election to glory or at least fails to include them in it, without, however, destining them to positive punishment except consequently on their foreseen demerits. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It was used, for example, when a pupil had received five demerit marks.
Seriously though, we really are interested in publicising genuine examples of bias and all cases, left or right, will be dealt with fairly and on their journalistic merits or demerits.
The starting point of discussion is in the context of a broader discussion on the merits and demerits of the national tax system.
In order never to be overcome by harm-doers, cultivate patience through mindfulness of the demerits of anger.
Those who are absent from classes for two weeks running or 50 class hours added up in one semester will be given a record of a demerit for misconduct.
We believe he, either, is turning his Nelson's eye to the scientific reports, or, is plain oblivious of Peter Bergen's cogent and coherent articulation of the demerits of EITs as image destroyers for the US. Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
Nobody in power dared a debate on the merits and demerits of computerisation in a vast country with millions and millions of unemployed youth.
Lu wondered how detailed it was, if it would contain each demerit he had received over the years. SONS OF HEAVEN
The merit of the RMB's rise is far in excess of its demerit for Chinese economy.
Failure to supply the details of the driver is itself an offence which can result in the owner receiving demerit points or a disqualification.
Definitely this is not the time to call in a child psychologist or bury ourselves in academic discussions on the merits and demerits of Freud versus Skinner versus Piaget.
I have no interest in getting into a debate about what is and what isn't traditional music, or the musical merits and demerits of my chosen instruments.
The contract between the parties establishes a behaviour policy and a demerit point system.
Whatever may have been the strategetical merits or demerits of the Northern generals, it is at any rate certain that their apparent successes were greedily welcomed by the people, and created an idea that things were going well with the cause. North America
What do you think about your merit and demerit? Can you give some example?

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