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Example sentences for: merit-based

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But admitting black students who wouldn't be admitted under a merit-based policy is precisely what high-school quotas do.
Conclusion: He deserves credit for inventing the merit-based army and restoring glamour to military service; criticism for destroying Europe with his self-aggrandizing, idiotic wars.
They think it immoral to give college places to minority students who wouldn't be admitted under a merit-based policy, since this means taking away those places from white students with higher grades and SATs.
Conservatives have always claimed to want admissions decisions based solely on so-called "merit-based" criteria such as SAT scores.
Annan is pushing merit-based promotion and management training, ancient ideas that are new to the United Nations.