merit system

“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.

Both parties are now equal opportunity offenders when it comes to gaming the system.

We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.

Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.

As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.

The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.

Accordingly, the question "How far does the note issue under the new system seem likely to prove an elastic one?"