(a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said it still planned to close its compensation scheme, but would continue to consider "meritorious claims".
(2) Physical fitness tests will be overhauled, including new standards and surprise “spotchecks”, and the navy and marine corps will transition to a “meritorious” system of promotions, Mabus said.
(3) Improved communication between physicians and patients may result in fewer nonmeritorious malpractice claims while leading to less costly resolution of meritorious claims.
(4) One of the capital payment options under consideration is the establishment of a lid on capital expenditures and the concomitant allocation of capital to health care providers whose applications are the most meritorious.
(5) The overall achievement by scientists and clinicians in Korea has been meritorious in elucidating some of the pending problems in the areas of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
(6) The citation was read to the congregation, praising his “exceptionally meritorious service and his extraordinary integrity and leadership throughout his 11 years as an officer”.
(7) Yet if the post-feminist age is clearly not quite as meritorious as anticipated a brighter, more equal, future beckons.
(8) This program provides funds for rapid testing of investigator-initiated meritorious research ideas, new drugs, and treatment modalities.
(9) Whilst Glencore cannot predict the results of any litigation, it believes it has meritorious defences against those actions or claims.
(10) You must know that there is a direct application on the battlefield and we’re using it today, but we don’t really understand it yet so this is a critical element.” His awards include the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Service Medal, a Meritorious Service Award and an Army Commendation Medal.
(11) On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the organized health care of the city of Subotica, the authors present the development as well as the present functions of the establishment for the care of little children, which exists for 100 years already and is undoubtedly meritorious for the people of this region, justifying it's existence since the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
(12) The glutaraldehyde-vaccine is of good potency with a meritorious performance in tests for abnormal toxicity in mice, the leucocytosis-promoting-factor and the mouse weight gain.
(13) The purpose of the panels is to weed out frivolous lawsuits and aid the prompt settlement of meritorious claims.
(14) The listing prospectus does reveal a Belgian criminal investigation in which Glencore's Dutch-based grain trading operation, a former employee and one current employee have all been charged with bribing European officials, but the company does not detail any further legal battles as it believes it has "meritorious" defences and that any rulings will not adversely affect its finances.
(15) One of these was the Jewish physician Hermann Jastrowitz, whose meritorious achievements for the benefit of the Outpatient Division and Hospital of the Department of Medicine of the University of Halle have been practically completely documented and reconstructed from university and other records.
(16) It further concludes that it is essential to submit proposals for all prospective QA projects, potentially scientifically meritorious QA projects, and all scientific clinical research projects to an institutional review board (IRB) to render decisions about the protection of human subject's rights before accessing data.
(17) While it is widely acknowledged that the vocational potential of physically impaired persons should be evaluated in an organized manner, there are differences of opinion among professional evaluators as to which approach, or approaches, are the most meritorious; The four principal approaches are: (1) mental testing, (2) work sampling, (3) situational analysis, and (4) job tryouts.
(18) In its public filing, Twitter said "we believe we have meritorious defenses," although it also said "there can be no assurance that we will be successful" in resolving the dispute.
(19) He devoted much of his time and effort to improving medical care for the inmates, and he thus made a meritorious contribution to the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
(20) This must mean that meritorious claims are not being pursued because of the fees regime.” The letter urges the government to carry out a review of the fee levels, and urgently.
Qualified
Definition:
(a.) Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
(a.) Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement.
(imp. & p. p.) of Qualify
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(2) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(3) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
(4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(5) Time-qualified data series were analysed by means of chronobiological procedures in order to validate the circadian rhythm and to correlate the sinusoidal profiles.
(6) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.
(7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(8) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(9) Orthopaedic nurse clinicians or orthopaedic operating room nurses are best qualified to assume the responsibilities of developing and managing a surgical bone bank.
(10) Qualified support was received for the third prediction that relatives would perceive problems as less severe than would able bodied persons.
(11) Because of the nonavailability of sufficient numbers of qualified industrial hygienists to assume roles as health compliance officers in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a three - year career development program for trainee industrial hygienists has been initiated.
(12) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
(13) In these respects, the receptors qualified for a '5-HT1-like' classification.
(14) There is a simple solution, formulated by English PEN, the Manifesto Club and the Earl of Clancarty, who raised the matter in the Lords earlier this year: remove short-term visits by non-EU artists from the PBS and expand the entertainer route, letting paid and unpaid artists qualify.
(15) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
(16) It's not the last match of the group but now we have to play the next two games at home and that's where we can decide to qualify for the round of 16, which is very important for us," Pellegrini said.
(17) Statistical analyses (p less than .001) indicated that female coaches were (a) more qualified than their male counterparts with respect to coaching experience with female teams, professional training, and professional experience; (b) as qualified as male coaches with regard to intercollegiate playing experience; and (c) less qualified than male coaches with respect to high school playing experience and coaching experience with male teams.
(18) McCluskey qualified his remarks by saying that Miliband has done a "good job" since his election as leader in 2010.
(19) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.
(20) In the courts the remarks of non-specialist qualified persons can lead to wrong decisions as can either unsuitable or wrong evidence.