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    meritorious


    1. Although the intention is meritorious, there is always need to collect the social investors’ new financial contributions or altruistic sponsors and the continuous donation of products or services


    2. Most meritorious of visitors’ pause and consideration is the Corinthian style Council Chamber


    3. Among other false allegations by him, I was accused of going too easy on Ingalls because of my paying their meritorious claims, etc


    4. lous cases mean that meritorious cases receive little attention, and are resolved much more slowly, than they otherwise would


    5. In recognition of his interest, he was honored in 1970 by the NC State Alumni Association with its Meritorious Service Award


    6. Later earning the rank of Commander, Kelley and her crew earned a Meritorious Unit Commendation for outstanding achievements in law enforcement and search and rescue operations


    7. Bob had received two Meritorious Honor Awards during his career


    8. 5 However, inconsistent as it seems, while such blindness was supposed to be the result of sin, the Jews held that it was meritorious in a high degree to give alms to these blind beggars


    9. she recognized the old custom meant to salute the arrival of a meritorious or exceptional crew or ship


    10. However, Marshall himself had in the last few years been guilty of promoting many officers he judged to be specially meritorious or full of promises, ignoring the seniority list in the process and creating at the same time quite a lot of grumbling from old officers who were being jumped over for promotion

    11. She however knew that many in the Pentagon would do their best to thwart her efforts with the various promotion boards, being still adverse to the presence of women in the Air Force despite all the years of meritorious services from the said women


    12. However, the men and women of my force are as much if not more meritorious in this than me


    13. Added to the desire for wealth was the religious motivation, iconoclasm being a meritorious activity among the more orthodox followers of the Islamic faith


    14. both meritorious and evil deeds in this world itself and the art of act-


    15. “And, O Arjun, that man is meritorious who restrains his senses


    16. in every respect mighty and meritorious, restrain the mind with your


    17. lessness, and also that of meritorious action, for the ways of action are (So) inscrutable


    18. Krishn’s observation that charity is worthwhile only if it is directed, at a suitable place and time, at the meritorious with true generosity and


    19. So, I ask you again, what is more pornographic, your thirteen year old Cuntry Club daughter texting her breasts to her gender ambiguous gym coach, or the child labor of missing limbs and lost lives in every product, the villages and nations ruined to a migration of extinction by the land grabs, research labs, and corporate conquests extinguishing all that stands between it and profit, the occupation of your boredom, and the preoccupation of your meritorious privilege? You tell me which is more pornographic?” EvEx concluded and hir images faded


    20. It is only meritorious because it makes money; and money is not simply our highest value, but the standard of valuation

    21. Yes, she was right, nearly always right, in everything she said, and it was certainly meritorious to use one's strength, and health, and talents as she was doing, trying to get rid of mouldy prejudices


    22. * See for example the meritorious Handbook to the Grammar of the New Testament, recently published by Dr


    23. Further on, blatantly advertising its meritorious solidity, a boarding- house exhibits behind uncurtained windows its testimony to the soundness of London


    24. Such behaviour as this, so exactly the reverse of her own, appeared no more meritorious to Marianne, than her own had seemed faulty to her


    25. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious


    26. But it was he, although it seemed absurd: the oldest and best-qualified doctor in the city, and one of its illustrious men for many other meritorious reasons, had died of a broken spine, at the age of eighty-one, when he fell from the branch of a mango tree as he tried to catch a parrot


    27. When she is older she will be heiress to a large fortune, which it will be her duty to spend in a meritorious manner


    28. So far as your revenue system has protected the interests of your merchants, I am sincerely rejoiced; but I can consent to no additional imposition of duty, by way of bounty to one description of persons, at the expense of another, equally meritorious


    29. He would propose an amendment to inquire into the propriety of remunerating those who had suffered by their submission (not by their opposition) to the several acts respecting the embargo, certainly so much more meritorious conduct than that of opposition


    30. , has been the situation of Great Britain in relation to Spain? Great Britain, at the time the expedition was undertaken, was an enemy of Spain—was at actual war with Spain—and therefore in a subject of Great Britain it might have been highly meritorious to annoy Spain, either at home or in her colonies to the utmost extent in his power, without any direct authority from his Government

    31. It does not appear, from any evidence from the Secretary of War or of the Treasury, that the late Colonel Hamilton ever did relinquish his right to half-pay or commutation, nor can the committee believe that it would be proper or generous that such relinquishment should be relied on as a bar to a just claim upon the United States for meritorious services against the representatives of such claimant


    32. But, is it not singular that as to the many heroes who have served us during the Revolution, who have now gone to their long home, no notice has been taken of their merits by us, nor any step taken to confer upon them the honor now proposed to be conferred on this officer, whom I acknowledge to be meritorious? We have seen a Greene die, and certainly no man exceeded him in rank or merit, the General-in-chief excepted


    33. As the central figure in the series of adventures described is O’Rourke, so the most conspicuously meritorious piece of literary work is the delineation of his character


    34. His gallant and meritorious services in our Revolution, and patriotic conduct since, have always been held in high estimation by the Government


    35. In support of the motion, he remarked that he conceived it improper to adopt a principle so extremely liable to abuse as this, especially when pensions had been refused to at least equally meritorious sufferers during the Revolution


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    Synonyms for "meritorious"

    meritable meritorious virtuous valorous worthy valuable useful first-rate

    "meritorious" definitions

    deserving reward or praise