In the US, regulators have been persuaded of the merits of this approach because they have seen the positive outcomes for older people.
"We have now thoroughly examined the case that we have and we are convinced of the merits of our case, and the expectation that we will have a success to get the outcome we want - which is a regrade for students, " he said.
"They have to decide on the merits of what they have in front of them, " Ms. Gordon said of the five-person board.
But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.
Some governments have started recognizing the merits of prizes over subsidies.
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The aluminum producer raised its 2012 North American forecast by 1%, interesting at a time when President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney have been debating the merits of the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler on the campaign trail.
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Difficulties that everyday citizens (and voters) have with evaluating the merits of the most well-known financial services firms are multiplied when the challenge is to form a judgement on the long-term value provided by unknown, entrepreneurial firms who engage in financial transactions that are far removed from their own everyday lives.
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Does the consultant have an obligation to discuss the merits of doing business with its brokerage affiliate versus other brokerage firms?
And with Sheridan not expected to be back in action until late February after undergoing surgery on the dislocated shoulder he suffered playing for Sale in October, Johnson will have to weigh up the merits of the other props at his disposal.
Mrs Tshabalala-Msimang and the president, Thabo Mbeki, have previously sounded sceptical about the merits of antiretroviral drugs.
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"I think by the end of the year, everyone's going to have a better idea what the merits of this litigation are and where it's going, " Birnbaum says.
It was too late to bring an innocent spouse claim and have it considered on the merits.
In India, many have started to doubt the merits of the deal, but cancelling is out of the question, bearing in mind the big sums already invested.
The persistence of recusal issues appears to have little to do with the legal merits there aren't any but a great deal to do with the process of how we have selected and rejected candidates for judicial office in the past few decades, certainly since the superbly qualified Robert Bork was turned down for a seat on the Supreme Court.
If there is an evidentiary hearing, which I suspect there will be, the issues would probably include first whether the court has jurisdiction of the labor dispute (as opposed to the National Labor Relations Board) and then most insightfully, whether the players really do have a substantial chance of success on the merits.
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If Republicans didn't want to extend the payroll tax cut on the merits, then they should have put together a strategy and the arguments for defeating it and explained why.
But Raymond clients like Sienna Miller and Dita Von Teese have done wonders for exhibiting the merits of wearing underwear as outerwear.
He says their most important allies are black state legislators who do not have to be persuaded of the merits of anti-discrimination laws.
Although the USITC has not judged on the merits of the case, Huawei and ZTE have been under investigation by Washington bureaus on and off since 2010.
As well as creating a stronger rival to Google, the deal would also have other merits, Microsoft claims.
But the truth is both have their merits.
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Yet some would have us believe that, whatever the merits of these and similar concerns about the Israeli withdrawal (which are brilliantly elucidated by my colleague, Caroline Glick), the decision has already been taken by the recently elected government of Israel.
If, however, we continue down the present road of permitting Moscow to use Western financial assistance, including debt relief, as a kind of club to bludgeon independent, democratic-minded republics into submitting to the discredited policies of a new Moscow center we will have misjudged, at a critical juncture in history, the merits of decentralization and the abiding dangers of recentralization.
Nor have they demonstrated serious questions as to the merits and a balance of hardships that tips decidedly in their favor.
Considered narrowly, the EPA proposal appears to have some merits.
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But philosophical arguments about the merits of central banking have nothing to do with the practical question facing Ben Bernanke right now: is monetary policy currently too tight or too loose?
So it is very helpful to me to have his support, to have his, you know, willingness to make the case for me, but I have to, you know, be viewed on my merits and make the case for myself.
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Whatever the merits of that lawsuit may have been, what was it doing in California?
Whatever the merits of those adjustments may have been, they had the effect of increasing expenses in a program where cost is a crucial metric of success.
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Executives in the C-suite may not spend a lot of time discussing the merits of Hadoop but they have become technologically literate, said Mills, and they are very focused on results.
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