The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership, citizenship and general achievement.

The film also won a special Nastro d'Argento for outstanding formal merits.

John Major is not in the same league but one of his outstanding merits is the capacity to master a brief, even at short notice.

The paintings are large, expensive and not of outstanding merit, he commented.

Grade I: "Buildings of outstanding merit, which every effort should be made to preserve if possible."

He established a foundation to promote and recognise photographic work of outstanding pictorial merit.

Only those who have outstanding merits and abilities should be given such honor.

St John's church cannot claim to have any outstanding architectural merit, but it can boast two unusual features.

They embellished it with temples and monuments of outstanding merit.

The award used to denote hotels considered to be of outstanding merit within their classification.