0 relating to a meritocracy (= a social system in which people's success or power is related to their abilities): --
The country was operating more meritocratic principles for selecting those entering the educational elite.
Let us turn now to staff: meritocratic selection in all the countries will provide a uniform standard among teachers' associations.
There will be choice by neighbourhood, just as to-day there is choice by cheque book or choice by meritocratic entry through the 11-plus.
We should not simply pursue the meritocratic idea.
With their ultimate objective being assimilation into a meritocratic society and as the victims of racism, they, as a matter of principle, embraced the ideal of non-racism.
For example, the emphasis on bourgeois advancement through education-that is, by means of the carefully managed, meritocratic competition in state-run schools-fits well with the premium on national unity.
In sum, technological systems of connection both incarnate and reinforce an ideology that accords economic, political, and intellectual power to the global market, to a meritocratic elite, and to information.
This is also the result of a judicial structure which has not fostered meritocratic promotion mechanisms.
Instead, increased meritocratic standards combined with political plurality, as justices supported by the left, centre and right parties were named to the bench.
