Sentence examples for based purely on merit from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hashmall and Mr. Spencer both said his recent hiring was based purely on merit.

They say: "Our approach to recruitment and selection is fair, open and based purely on merit".

Reed has for now cast aside its hopes of accepting students based purely on merit, without regard to wealth, and still meeting their financial need.

But is it right to give more women jobs because of their gender, or should everything be based purely on merit?

My peers who oppose affirmative action, for example, insist that admission to college should be based purely on merit, not skin color.

With four rotation spots locked up and the Mets committed to Orlando Hernández, Pelfrey is competing for a fifth-starter's job that he, based purely on merit, has little chance of winning.

Admission into the doctoral program in the Field of Computer Science is based purely on academic merit.

Some educators, parents and students worry that if admissions are based purely on academic merit, selective universities will be dominated by whites and Asians and admit few blacks and Latinos, as a result of socioeconomic factors and an enduring test-score gap.

Officials at the National Institutes of Health, however, say the decision to put the lab here was based purely on the merits.

So the civilian police commission was granted greater autonomy in the hope that its choice would then be based purely on the merits rather than political arm-twisting.

However, based purely on the merits of the case, which I'll get to shortly, Midkiff and her attorney, Daniel Klein Daniel Klein, are clogging the courts.