meritorious

How To Use meritorious In A Sentence

• That is arrogant presumption to insist that some authors and works deserve to be declared meritorious as a matter of fairness.
• He had been promoted to captain, and later he was brevetted major for ‘gallant and meritorious service’.
• Users can therefore search for medal awards (mainly gallantry and meritorious service awards), army and navy commissions, promotions, the naturalisation of an ancestor and much more during this crucial period in history.
• Hazen called on officers to pay careful attention to the superior Prussian system and urged the United States to adopt policies that evaluated and promoted officers meritoriously and to create military schools to train them better. Between War and Peace
• If people deserve to recover, ambulance chasers are how the market is supposed to bring meritorious claims to the courthouse.
• Such cases do, however, present quite serious factual difficulties and the law has been concerned to ensure that a meritorious plaintiff does not fail for want of proof.
• Not only were they much the stronger during this period, but they were better together, and gained their great triumph most meritoriously.
• Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
• The guaranteed, antitypical blessings for the elect rest exclusively upon the meritorious work of Christ.
• The president praised teachers for their meritorious service in educating students, but declined to touch on teachers' complaints about their meager wages and poor living conditions.