Politicians and the rest of us are encouraged to believe that all artistic traditions have equal merit.

If both claims were deemed to have equal merit, the law allowed for the land to be shared equally between the two claimants.

But for the Olivier Panel, these would have equal merit.

Alas, there was all too much time to evolve more verse, of equal artistic merit.

But they may only do so where both candidates are of equal merit, and further conditions must be met.

There were many others of equal merit who deserve to be remembered, perhaps someone else would care to write about.

It called at the same moment for a present production of equal merits.

Secondly, all the spending commitments in the recovery plans are far from being of equal merit.

They considered that every act of resistance, being equally dangerous under German occupation, was of equal merit.

To her both systems were of equal merit, and each of them was effective in its appropriate place".