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- adverb In a
meritocratic way.
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Examples
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Specifically, when Bryan stated "Maybe I deeply misread them, but I suspect that even most left-wing professors grade as meritocratically as I do."
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Also, yes, I believe doctoral study *should* be elitist — not in the sense of social class or economic standing few students at my own institution possess much of these, but meritocratically.
Employment Trends And Academic Labor » Sociological Images 2009
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All, or nearly all of my professors in the nearly 60 courses that I've taken have graded meritocratically as far as I can tell, and a healthy or unhealthy fraction were left-wing, sure.
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One has to overcome blindness again and again, encountered in different educational and community settings, by willing to be the one everyone else -- successful, lauded, meritocratically blessed -- is likely to call the blind.
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And my challenge to pro-redistribution professors stands: Give me a good reason why you grade as meritocratically as I do.
Grades Are So Money, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Maybe I deeply misread them, but I suspect that even most left-wing professors grade as meritocratically as I do.
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The Number Two rule of government is to protect, through the judicial arm, the constitution and associated bills at all costs, a constitution written by and voted for by a panel of representatives, meritocratically appointed from each section of society.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Grammar schools once offered a tremendous opportunity to children from all walks of life to be able to progress meritocratically.
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The Hijazi king of Jordan earned his military rank meritocratically.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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A small elite of bureaucrats, selected meritocratically, ran the whole system.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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