Ultimately, the couple return to the father's house, where she lectures her sister on the merits of being an obedient wife.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

His merits and reputation being now generally recognized, his thoughts began to turn from the shores of the Adriatic to the banks of the Tiber, for which he set out at the commencement of his twenty-fourth year.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

In recognition of his merits, the emperor of Austria made him a knight of the Iron Crown and a councillor of state at Milan, where he died.

Other theologians defended the expression " Immaculate Conception ", pointing out that sanctification could be conferred at the first moment of conception in view of the foreseen merits of Christ, a view held especially by Franciscans.

The Preface of Kubla Khan began by explaining that it was printed: " at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity, and as far as the author's own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits ".

In a controversial 1997 book, attorney Michael Trotter blamed over-reliance by American lawyers on binding and persuasive authority, rather than the merits of the case at hand, as a major factor behind the escalation of legal costs during the 20th century.

Since 2001, the government has asserted the privilege in more cases and at earlier stages of the litigation, thus in some instances causing dismissal of the suits before reaching the merits of the claims, as in the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan.

If any one of them is missing, he makes inquiry at once, as he knows by the marks from what quarter the tablet has not returned, and whoever is responsible for the stoppage meets with the punishment he merits.

One of the informal traditions of the American legal system, derived from the common law, is that all litigants are guaranteed at least one appeal after a final judgment on the merits.

Diodorus also extensively praises Themistocles, going as far as to offer a rationale for the length at which he discusses him: " Now on the subject of the high merits of Themistocles, even if we have dwelt over-long on the subject in this digression, we believed it not seemly that we should leave his great ability unrecorded.

The late 1990s replacement of mouseballs by direct optical tracking put trackballs at a disadvantage and forced them to retreat into niches where their distinctive merits remained more important.

During the visit Lincoln was to spend 2 hours with M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge at the Pacific House Hotel discussing the merits of starting the railroad in Council Bluffs and was to visit Cemetery Hill there to look over the proposed route.

; Hideki Yukawa ( member of the Japanese academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Basic Research at the University of Kyoto ): for outstanding merits in the development of theoretical physics.

It was difficult to assess the merits or otherwise of Kennett's ' Revolution ' in his first term at the time, as many including Auditor-General Ches Baragwanath ) claimed that the true value of the reforms will not be apparent until well into the 21st century.

As word traveled to other parts of the South about the merits of Blowing Rock, more visitors began to arrive, first camping out, and later taking rooms at boarding houses such as the Hayes and Martin Houses on Main Street.

According to the doctrine of Calvin ( Instit., III, ii, 4 ) good works are " impurities and defilement " ( inquinamenta et sordes ), but God covers their innate hideousness with the cloak of the merits of Christ, and imputes them to the predestined as good works in order that He may requite them not with life eternal, but at most with a temporal reward.

One source notes that by his accomplishments at Intel alone, he " merits a place alongside the great business leaders of the 20th century.

But here his merits are distinguished, and, at the period when his Institutio Interpretis Novi Testamenti ( Principles of New Testament Interpretation ) was published ( 1761 ), almost peculiar to himself.

Many Republicans scoffed at “ Seward ’ s folly ,” although their criticism appears to have been based less on the merits of the purchase than on their hostility to Johnson and to Seward as Johnson ’ s political ally.

Councils hope that owners will recognise the merits of their properties and keep them unaltered if at all possible.

Although the merits of this may seem a trifle at first, it can pay dividends in the long run by eliminating seeds earlier that otherwise would have sprouted in later years.

One problem at the receiving end is, that a criticism may be taken more seriously than it really merits, or that it is taken " too personally ", even although that was not the intention of the critic.

During this period poets from the north and south of the island extolled the merits of their respective peoples ( Eremonians and Eberians ), at the expense of the other side, and often descended to a pettiness that some contemporaries thought foolish.

In 1934 he was awarded a British honour, being created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( KCVO ) due to his great merits in Anglo-Finnish relations.

Hovell published two pamphlets Reply to " A Brief Statement of Facts in Connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 ", and an Answer to the Preface to the Second Edition of Mr Hamilton Hume's " A Brief Statement of Facts ", ( for a balanced discussion of the merits of the case see paper by professor Sir Ernest Scott in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

He sent it to the Royal Academy, where John Flaxman, recognizing its merits, gave it an excellent place.

His merits as a scholar were recognized in 1875 by his election as president of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences.

in March, Royal Rangers announces that by July 31, 2011 they will phase out the current uniform and phase in new uniform selections along with new training programs, awards and merits.

The merits of the Salk anti-polio vaccine were not established on the forensic platform or in newspaper editorials, but in the laboratory and by tests in the field on thousands of children.

One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.

Perhaps every person involved should be judged separately on his or her own merits, and each costume or line is its own work of art ( with perhaps the director having the job of unifying them all ).

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Deborah stands exclusively on her own merits.

As Solomon Schechter noted, " however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the Rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition ".

In Japan's history, social strata based on inherited position rather than personal merits, was rigid and highly formalized.

They are elected by the Judiciary Council based on a merits contest held by that office.

The Bostonians agreed on the plan's merits, and brought the two to England to elicit financing.

The state's move to this new system has, to some extent, diminished the phenomenon and public opinion is widely split on the merits of " class basketball.

In this paper the representatives of the association regret that IQ-related works are frequently written with a view to their political consequences: " research findings were often assessed not so much on their merits or their scientific standing as on their supposed political implications ".

Discussion on the merits of various ISDN modems, carriers ' offerings and tariffs ( features, pricing ) are from this perspective.

1308 ), a Friar Minor Conventual like Saint Bonaventure, argued, on the contrary, that from a rational point of view it was certainly as little derogatory to the merits of Christ to assert that Mary was by him preserved from all taint of sin, as to say that she first contracted it and then was delivered.

Coleridge's statements on the origin of the poem were considered again by various critics with an emphasis on how the origins affected the merits of the poem.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

When done carelessly, a point / counterpoint can be as unfair as a simple biased report, by suggesting that the " losing " side lost on its merits.

Although the campaign was largely unsuccessful, it created a wave of new followers, and some of Baba ’ s views found their way into academic debate on the merits and dangers of hallucinogens.

One of the earliest of these was Al-Kindi ( c. 801 – 73 ) who wrote on the merits of Aristotelian and Euclidean ideas of optics, favouring the emission theory since it could better quantify optical phenomenon.

Anglo-Saxon literature has gone through different periods of research — in the 19th and early 20th centuries the focus was on the Germanic roots of English, later the literary merits were emphasised, and today the focus is upon paleography and the physical manuscripts themselves more generally: scholars debate such issues as dating, place of origin, authorship, and the connections between Anglo-Saxon culture and the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages.