The grants would be evaluated on technical merit, just like medical grants at the National Institutes of Health.

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The other five award points for technical merit - i.e. how hard the routine is and how well they do it.

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The technical merit is that he is invoking a treaty.

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There will be a series of witnesses from the industry - followed by the Conservative energy minister John Hayes, whose performances are always worth watching, both in terms of technical merit and artistic impression.

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These coins were of such technical and aesthetic merit that they were hard to debase or counterfeit.

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The technical analysts' reaction was harsh, to say the least--ranging from quibbling about my grammar to arguing that because technical analysis has attracted a large following, it must have merit.

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