meritocratic society.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The Sully-Brooks "meritocratic" theory ignores the influence of temperament in the operation of the cognitive partition system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outside The Beltway | OTB] Reference

What we have not had is the kind of meritocratic elite necessary for the task of the fulfillment of the country's full potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

What grade you’re in is based almost solely on age, not any kind of meritocratic policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweenage Drama « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference

Future selection will be increasingly meritocratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grapes Without Wrath] Reference

The United States is more of a meritocratic society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying Yes To Drugs] Reference

In 1976, a marvelously meritocratic moment intervened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Nolan: An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals] Reference

He was, in a way, the future: the meritocratic striver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep In the Tweeds] Reference

For all its faults, advertising is fairly meritocratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The meritocracy of Mad Men] Reference

The country has become too fast-paced, and too meritocratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Are The Kennedys Still A Dynasty?] Reference

The meritocratic spirit has swept away other enclaves of privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eton Problem] Reference

The idea of a meritocratic elite has gone by many names over the years.    From Wordnik.com.  [the cultural elite] Reference

Making Britain a more a meritocratic place should be a priority for both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The shameful state of social mobility in Britain] Reference

Before long he was at Salomon Brothers, a meritocratic trading firm on Wall Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolutionary] Reference

Now a more meritocratic society is ready to overlook the fortunate accidents of birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eton Problem] Reference

Published in the late 1950s, it sets out the problems of a purely meritocratic society.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It is fiercely hierarchical, centered around a pernicious form of meritocratic elitism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Konczal: '13 Bankers,' Financialization and the Real Economy] Reference

The next decade saw both these meritocratic pillars of the state school system collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social mobility disappeared with grammar schools (The Times)] Reference

Both forms of knowing are equally valid in a truly egalitarian and meritocratic society.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Maybe in time these schools would become entirely meritocratic, like all universities are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

We know this, of course; yet our cynicism is constantly at war with our meritocratic idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bradley W. Bloch: Our Blagojevich, Ourselves] Reference

Sarah Palin's VP candidacy takes the populist rejection of meritocratic achievement to new lows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Is Obama Such a Bad Self-Promoter?] Reference

And the reason I think you talk about them is because, what could be more meritocratic than sports?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009] Reference

Instead they reflected a non-meritocratic bureaucratic culture, office politics, and bad judgement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer: Can an Attack Deny Iran the Bomb?] Reference

Power and money and power still speak very loudly, despite our purported ideals of a meritocratic society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Davenport: Blagojevich and Beijing: Political Corruption in China and America] Reference

Topping the Happy List, which is ranked alphabetically to uphold its meritocratic spirit, is Ade Adepitan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicling rise] Reference

A system which results in only 15 of 646 MPs being non-white is not sufficiently inclusive or meritocratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can we have a British Obama? Yes we can] Reference

ZAKARIA: And the reason I think you talk about them is because, what could be more meritocratic than sports?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2009] Reference

(Interestingly enough Stelzer is actually opposed to their inheritance tax proposal on meritocratic grounds.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Brown disappoints his own supporters while Cameron cheers his] Reference

Thus the meritocratic system succeeds brilliantly in producing the only kinds of automatons the system requires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference

The test, or a test like it, must exist for the meritocratic and democratic ideals of American education to flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliot Schrefer: The Working Class SAT] Reference

As Ross Douthat says in his column today, Obama appeals to the meritocratic whils Palin appeals to the democratic minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The meritocratic spirit is best embodied by the likes of Liam Fox who never discusses his (comprehensive) school background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who cares about the playing fields of Eton?] Reference

It is either alarmingly cultish or a meritocratic reflection of the extreme competence at Wall Street's most prestigious firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill's Gold-Star Move] Reference

We feel e-government policies in Europe could learn from the open, meritocratic, transparent and user-driven culture of the web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0] Reference

Companies that conduct disciplined, meritocratic assessments of performance and potential are well placed to make good personnel decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upgrading Talent] Reference