In two ways, the first way is through market meritocracy.
Or maybe, after attending President Obama's inauguration, she had started to sense that this moment was not hers — that what people are really embracing, in the new president and his family, is the flat-out miracle of their rise through a meritocracy.
They are the result of what we are taught to think about poor people, for instance, even if we are poor, through celebrations of "meritocracy" or by watching a parent lock the car doors when driving through certain parts of town.
In the context of iGEM, this combines with the rhetoric (or myth) of meritocracy through which American universities largely organise themselves, in accordance with the belief that 'individuals get ahead and earn rewards in direct proportion to their individual efforts and abilities' (Mcnamee and Miller, 2009, p. 2).
One is through what I call market meritocracy largely through education and skills and the second through straightforward opportunity hoarding for a choice which is essentially rigging the market, and then lastly I'm going to come to the price I started which is solving the I'm not rich problem.
The first type includes social, occupational or educational meritocracy, through which every individual is presumed to be able to fulfill their full potential by gaining access to education and opportunities for professional advancement.
Henry Chauncey, founder of the Educational Testing Service who shaped the nation's standardized testing practices and through them, a new meritocracy, died yesterday at his home in Shelburne, Vt.
When the French Revolution unleashed this national power through rationalized central administration, meritocracy, and a national draft based on patriotism, it achieved unprecedented organization of force in the form of armies of millions of men.
The manifesto appeared to bear the hallmarks of one of May's close advisers, Nick Timothy, with some of his favourite themes, including an emphasis on community and meritocracy, running through the document.
Despite its move toward meritocracy, a current of snobbery still runs through London and some of the hottest restaurants and clubs remain private.
