Sentence examples for individual merit from inspiring English sources

"We cling to the idea," he writes, "that success is a simple function of individual merit".

Individual merit pay, she has asserted, would foster destructive rivalry within a school.

It's also a mistake to blame union opposition to individual merit pay for poor teacher retention.

That act binds the military into a system that honors seniority over individual merit.

"It has nothing to do with the individual merit of the applicant".

The Creek achieved status based on individual merit rather than by inheriting it.

Surely continental inheritance rules trample personal freedom and are blind to individual merit?

That quickly fell by the wayside as welfare became universal and blind to individual merit or misbehaviour.

He said he saw little value in individual merit pay, which Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has advocated.

"Every school system that has tried individual merit pay has abandoned it," Ms. Weingarten said in a statement.

"My members are more against individual merit pay than anything I have ever seen them against," she said.