In this sense critique evaluates a piece of work, an idea, or an action, pointing to its merits and faults.
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Secondly, although the book's main theme is the connection between plague-spreaders and witches, other aspects emerge meriting further analysis from a comparative viewpoint.
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The small size of their estate compared to those of the large landowners we have mentioned above therefore merits our attention.
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Clearly, the studies have very different appeals and respective merits.
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More speci®cally, this encyclopedia has the following merits.
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Our findings here suggest that this topic merits closer attention.
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Also, the multiple merits of such a policy are more likely to win support from the general public.
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Clearly, my review should stand or fall on its merits, not some alleged rule invented by my two detractors.
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However, we cannot assess the merits of those views without first listening to the arguments advanced in support of them.
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My theory thus sheds a novel light on the arguments about the merits and dangers of different forms of executive structure.
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Rather, depending on what property is emphasised, there are many different families of curves, each with merits and disadvantages.
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While the scheme has many merits, it mainly serves the white community and older people who are fit and able to care for themselves.
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Despite the breadth of topics discussed in the book, there are three subjects that should have merited more consistent attention.
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Nonetheless, the impact of first-degree atrioventricular block merits including the topic in this review.
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Each work is judged on its merits and in many cases, [by virtue of an artist's] previous output.
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academic merit
If they are researchers,academicmeritmight be an incentive for recommending further research.
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actual merits
We should be glad on a point of this kind to have some answer dealing with the actual merits of the case.
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aesthetic merit
The user is able to judge and score each onaestheticmeritand continue to do so iteratively in order to evolve favoured instances.
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