Sentence examples for within a meritocracy from inspiring English sources

And other studies show that when managers think they are working within a meritocracy, they are even more likely to favor men.

Since any of the emperor's wives could raise the next emperor, the system became something of a meritocracy within a dynasty, with the most able and ambitious sons — and mothers — grabbing the reins of power.

But it turned out that various natural, if not elevated, human impulses -- greed, self-aggrandizement, preoccupation with rank and prestige, the desire to obtain special advantage and to pass it on to one's children -- could flourish just as easily within the bounds of a meritocracy as outside of them.

It is that Britain is, if not actually a meritocracy, at least within spitting distance of being one.

Carnegie provided poor areas with schools and libraries because he wanted to turn America into a meritocracy in which everybody had "ladders within reach upon which the aspiring can rise".

This was a meritocracy.

He believed in a meritocracy.

I believe in a meritocracy.

"Her friends are a meritocracy".

A meritocracy sounds positively utopian.

It was very much a meritocracy.