| The left has made disappointingly slow progress in building a meritocratic society. |
| The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society. |
| In terms of their social and educational origins these producers' backgrounds are broadly middle-class and meritocratic. |
| Now that Northern Ireland has become a meritocratic, livable place, unification with Ireland looks less urgent to some. |
| It simply isn't true that the brightest and the best rise to the top in our so-called meritocratic society. |
| This leaves room for some to develop a meritocratic spin on the capitalist system. |
