| In terms of their social and educational origins these producers' backgrounds are broadly middle-class and meritocratic. |
| The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society. |
| Its aristocratic tendencies sit badly with the meritocratic facts of Scottish life. |
| Now that Northern Ireland has become a meritocratic, livable place, unification with Ireland looks less urgent to some. |
| In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions. |
| Rosecrance also sees deterritorialization, and advocates surrender to economic forces in a mobile, meritocratic world. |
