Sentence examples for first meritocracy from inspiring English sources

In a typically perceptive line, Mr. Bryant writes, "Hitting, it could be argued, represented the first meritocracy in Henry's life".

The first is meritocracy.

First, the meritocracy is based on an overly narrow definition of talent.

First, political meritocracy has been, and continues to be, central to Chinese political culture.

The co-author of a classic work of sociology, "Family and Kinship in East London" (1957), Mr. Young was also known for coining the word "meritocracy," first used in his biting futuristic satire, "The Rise of the Meritocracy" (1958).

They then entered a meritocracy, first as ladies-in-waiting to the sultan's concubines and children, then to the sultan's mother and finally - if they showed sufficient aptitude and were beautiful enough - to the sultan himself.

The second ideal is meritocracy, understood in a very demanding way.

For all its claims to first-names-please meritocracy, California is one of the most unequal states in the world's least equal developed country.

When the British sociologist Michael Young first coined the word meritocracy, he didn't consider it an ideal to aspire towards.

Would it be unsporting to ask whether, in a perfect meritocracy, the first book on the subject of nepotism would be written by Adam Bellow?

I saw for first time what a meritocracy meant - you worked for it, you earned it.