Word: merited
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Instead, Falluja, an ancient trading post straddling the winding Euphrates and the blighted Syrian Desert, might no longer merit placement on a political map. Once a city of 250,000, Falluja today exists as a black stain from the air—or, perhaps to some, a mere drop of oil. Flattened and charred, its thousands of buildings and homes wasted from the sky and from the ground, its districts and quarters heaped together like the piles of dead bodies that welcome visitors to its borders, proudly attest to America’s vision for Iraq...
...fairness, Gonzales' argument-that stateless, remorseless al-Qaeda terrorists should be detained in a manner different from and stricter than the standard Geneva Convention procedures-has merit. The use of aggressive, nonviolent interrogation techniques, perhaps even drugs like sodium pentothal, may not be inappropriate to elicit information from those intent on the mass murder of civilians. But physical assault is something else entirely. The world now knows that the Bush White House at least tacitly approved the loosening of standards that led to the outrages of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo-and that no one of significance has been sacked...
This line of thought, with its possible implication that the Gospel writers imagined the Holy Spirit and Mary engaged in the kind of physical divine-human intercourse that vividly marked many Greek and Roman myths, is one of the most rancorous areas of the new scholarship. Brown found no merit in it. "Every line of Matthew's infancy narrative echoes Old Testament themes," he argued. "Are we to think that he accepted all that background but then violated horrendously the stern Old Testament [rule] that God was not a male who mated with women?" Other scholars claim that Luke especially...
...essence, Home Edition is like the reality-TV version of It's a Wonderful Life, in which Bedford Falls pitches in to rescue solid citizen George Bailey. Executive producer Tom Forman says the show's makers assess applications on "need and, to the extent we can judge it, merit. We look for people who have been nominated by their neighbors, people whose communities have told us are really special." The show also hews to the old formula of something for Mom, Dad and the kids: five-hankie stories, plus home-improvement tips, plus guys ripping off roofs with tractors...
...only was she remembered, but that she got a small glimpse into what’s going on in the life of someone that was once important to her. Dartboard isn’t saying that she’ll witness the rebirth of a former friendship, but the merit is still there. And she’s staying on thefacebook for good...