demerit

“We haven’t yet received a copy of the judgement. We will examine it on its merits and demerits and then decide whether to appeal or not,” he told me.

Yet his job review has never included a bonus for a player being called up to the majors or a demerit when someone comes up short.

Whatever the demerits of Owen’s performance, it isn’t fatal to an enjoyable series; he gets the job done, and is particularly good in his scenes with Bossom, whose Teresa he regards with paternal annoyance.

“Enough of that, Miss Lumen. One demerit for not following instructions. I warned you about bringing them up.”

“Since the distance between town and island is slight, we do not think the failure of the legislative plan to achieve literal contiguity a serious demerit,” the judges wrote in 1992.