meritocrat

Raised as a meritocrat, Hari had always expected to adopt rather than father children of his own.

You know the social moral of the story: the meritocrat becomes infected with snobbery.

Herbert Packer, the author's father, was an early meritocrat.

But play on they must, for Tamim in full flow is a sight even the most dyspeptic meritocrat should not be denied.

Obama himself had two sides - Chicago community organizer and Ivy League meritocrat.

"He's not a politician or a meritocrat.

The meritocrat won out.

Wanless, the meritocrat whose late father was a storeman in a cement works on Tyneside, is something of a mould-breaker.

Summers is an intuitive meritocrat, and he has many misgivings about affirmative action, though he will now discuss them with candor only off the record.

I'm no bourgeois meritocrat!

Kers chose one of the shorter queues, clearly marked as reserved for meritocrat VIPs.

This however, did not kill the excellent political meritocrat that Yang was, he once said - "the firm conviction of a Communist can never be vanquished."

Mr. Clinton, the meritocrat, had much more of the log-cabin President quality than Mr. Bush did.

In biological terms, the meritocrat's nightmare arises from the portion of the brain, the limbic system, that resists logic, reason and all those other daylight staples.

The advocate and the meritocrat: Lady Gaga's empowerment anthems go up against Beyoncé's spritzy competence.

JUDITH: You are a a meritocrat, Amy.

And the dream he had, the dream he has had intermittently for decades, might be best understood as the meritocrat's nightmare, one common among the knowledge class in America.

Similarly, there may be problems of respect when a person from a rigidly class-based culture meets a meritocrat, or where there is racism, sexism or religious intolerance in play.

"A meritocrat is somebody who looks only at the analysis, someone who says right is right and wrong is wrong and I can figure out what's right for the public.

Despite their different backgrounds and ages - Home an Edwardian aristocrat and Heath a lower-middle class meritocrat raised in the inter-war years - the two men respected and liked one another.

Another prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Amen of the University of California, Irvine, said that the troubling dream actually helps the meritocrat contend with the relentless demands for high academic performance.

It's not a coincidence that for Bush's first cabinet appointment he reached across this very divide in hiring the most celebrated meritocrat in recent memory - Colin Powell, who immediately pledged an aggressive affirmative-action program for his State Department.