1.   But in the course of the decision, the judge also addressed two provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that bonds must satisfy to merit tax-exempt status.

2.   Even some people who oversee the programs say they are concerned and confused over who merits minority status.

3.   In some cases, workers who labor on ships close to shore may face sufficient exposure to the perils of the sea to merit seaman status.

4.   Maraniss is respectful of his subject, and if Clinton fails to merit hero status, he is definitely the protagonist in his own biography.

5.   No single attraction merits must-see status.

6.   Opponents disagreed, arguing that homosexuals do not merit protected status because they are neither economically deprived nor lacking in political influence.

7.   There is some consensus among architects here that the building does not merit landmark status.

8.   As far as I am concerned, Jalan Song itself merits the status of a dual- carriageway, for good reasons.

9.   Ankara insists that the Aegean, which surrounds hundreds of Greek islands, many of them just off the Turkish coast, is a semi-closed ocean meriting special status.