Second, many independent schools select on the basis of academic merit.

A number of subject-specific scholarships are based on academic merit, and will be offered in addition to any means-tested bursaries.

These will be offered on the basis of academic merit.

The foundation's existence has freed the university to focus scholarships on academic merit and attracting the best students.

More than a third of universities also offer scholarships based purely on academic merit, not family income.

They obscure the idea of individual merit by forcing coaches and managers to select people they honestly believe to be inferior.

So judge each car on individual merit, regardless of who went first.

After a period of ill health he became an individual merit scientist making important contributions to a wide variety of problems in plasma dynamics, hypersonic aerodynamics and supersonic combustion.

Even though the teams were chosen on individual merit, the school held swimming galas and sports days to get all of the pupils involved.

In the dialogue, the plowman takes over and wins the debate, arguing for individual merit based on inner virtue.

These things merit recognition, for the censure can be deafening when they go wrong.

But officials deemed his connection was 'too slight to merit recognition'.

The remainder do not meet the strict criteria of the main league table this year, but merit recognition because of what they have achieved.

Members initiating a recommendation must have knowledge of an act or service that merits recognition.

We are trying to say something and have some musical merit.

You might therefore expect the album to have more historical significance than musical merit, but three factors bring this album to life.

They insisted that their selections were based solely on musical merit.

While most scholarships are based on financial need, some use criteria such as academic or musical merit and sporting achievement.

While the lyrics sometimes feel redundant, the strong emotional core and musical merit help balance things out.

Some have questioned the merits of this game.

Some critics have questioned the merits of one cause benefitting from a surge of donations.

Analysts said the report was a victory for the supermarkets and questioned the merit of the investigation.

Prices have since collapsed - to about 41 yesterday - prompting some shareholders to question the merits of the deal.

However, an increase in savings rates, combined with a fall in mortgage rates over the past year, has led experts to question the merits of offsetting for some borrowers.

We look at the relative merits of property versus shares.

Pick two or three criteria based on what drives you as a person and use them to assess the relative merits of the two organisations.

She had no real sense of the side-effects or relative merits of what her doctor was prescribing.

There was a discussion on the need for parental discipline and the relative merits of trust funds and allowances.

It doesn't tell us a great deal about the relative merits of these technology companies, nor how they may fare in the future.

These emerge in chronological order, but the one never completely effaces the other, and their respective merits are not decisive.

Neither option, despite my best attempts to persuade her of their respective merits, proved acceptable.

How can anyone, especially those in possession of a fit and healthy body, judge the respective merits of our illnesses and injuries?

Or again, two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant judgment as to their respective merits.

This involved the evaluation of the respective merits and demerits of various modes of public transport to determine which would best meet the needs of the area.

It has been slowly propagated ever since, she says, without ever holding scientific merit.

Their problem: doctors see no scientific merit whatsoever in most of the 'treatments'.

Because politicians, not peers, approve the funding targets, governments can end up funneling money into projects of murky scientific merit.

Proposals are scored individually by written ballot on their scientific merit and relevancy.

Papers are peer-reviewed, and only those that meet high standards of scientific merit are accepted for publication.

Their routines, which include compulsory moves, are judged on technical merit and artistic impression.

Each of the 11 competitors at the world championship had 14 minutes to impress the judges with their routines, and they were judged on technical merit and entertainment value.

One judge nailed her, giving her only a 4.9 for technical merit out of 6.0.

After that the 16-year-old skated well and shed tears of joy after technical merit marks of 69.64 and 63.49.

Discounts are awarded for technical merit and for artistic impression.