| Its aristocratic tendencies sit badly with the meritocratic facts of Scottish life. |
| The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society. |
| The left has made disappointingly slow progress in building a meritocratic society. |
| In fact, youthful prodigiousness is the leading edge of a wider cultural preoccupation with early high performance in our meritocratic era. |
| This leaves room for some to develop a meritocratic spin on the capitalist system. |
| We should be striving to create a meritocratic society with equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. |
