Example sentences for: meritocracy

How can you use “meritocracy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So why does he let this book on meritocracy get taken over by affirmative action?

  • On the Post opinion page, David Ignatius drives this point home by quoting Nicholas Lemann's new book on meritocracy (buy it here): "Here is what America looks like today," writes Lemann.

  • Then, praising America's classless meritocracy, it said: "Maybe Britain should have got rid of the royals too."

  • The cultural connection seems so obvious that it amazes me how often ethnic differences in the meritocracy are explained in terms of genes.

  • In his famous 1958 book, The Rise of the Meritocracy , British sociologist Michael Young proposed the following formula: IQ plus effort equals merit.


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