| Now that Northern Ireland has become a meritocratic, livable place, unification with Ireland looks less urgent to some. |
| The Oxbridge postgraduate community is much more mixed and meritocratic than the undergraduate body. |
| The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society. |
| Rosecrance also sees deterritorialization, and advocates surrender to economic forces in a mobile, meritocratic world. |
| It simply isn't true that the brightest and the best rise to the top in our so-called meritocratic society. |
| Its aristocratic tendencies sit badly with the meritocratic facts of Scottish life. |
