Grants shall be awarded under this subsection on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis.
Tories may have given up on many things (death wishes for example) but the idea of competitive merit is still basic to the Conservative party.
The changes would significantly limit the speaker's latitude over her own discretionary funds — which total $20 million to $25 million annually — by allocating grants through a competitive, merit-based process.
The rest, he argues, are outfits comprised not only of young players honing their talent but experienced journeymen playing not only for competitive merit but to support their families.
Ms. Quinn is also expected to abandon a proposal she announced last month that would have turned over her share of the discretionary pot — about $20 million to $25 million annually — to the Office of Contract Services to be allocated through a competitive, merit-based process.
''But what choice do I have?'' When you take a man's job in this economy -- whether by murder or competitive merit -- you consign him (and his wife and his children) to creeping destitution.
Transfer-To-Excellence (TTE) is a competitive merit-based program that is intended to inspire California Community College students to ultimately transfer and complete their Bachelor's degree in science and engineering.
The Secretary of Defense shall establish a competitive, merit-based program to accelerate the fielding of technologies developed pursuant to phase II Small Business Innovation Research Program projects, technologies developed by the defense laboratories, and other innovative technologies (including dual use technologies).
This is a competitive, merit-based internship that requires interns to engage full-time over the course of 6-10 weeks in an applied, development-related research project in India.
"Some students would show up crying; others would throw things," says Jennifer Wright, a professor at St. Thomas, recalling her time teaching at a school with competitive merit scholarships, the name of which she asked not to be used in this article.
