meritocrat

Goodwin was himself something of a meritocrat, having worked his way from lower-class Jewish suburbs of Boston to Harvard Law, landing a job with the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight.

Imagine now you are a young meritocrat, the child of, say, a pharmacist and an elementary school teacher, accepted to a prestigious university in the mid-sixties.

214) Students' "cognitive maps" in relation to their awareness of social justice issues, sense of agency, and social actions can be organized into the following four categories of performative identities: the Meritocrat, the Benevolent Benefactor, the Resigned, and the Activist Ally.

Explaining the importance of Pistorius to South Africa, the article also examines the fact that in a country obsessed with disadvantage, Pistorius was' the ultimate meritocrat, a runner with no legs who ignored the accidents of his birth to compete against the best', the report added.

After a long succession of patricians noted for their ease of manner and sense of leisurely culture Harold Wilson had the air of a clever and studious meritocrat.

He was a meritocrat. Indeed, Waugh was himself annoyed that very few people made the connection.

Este vorba, deci, de o "clasa" legitimata meritocrat, care acumuleaza si concentreaza informatia si puterea de decizie necesare reglarii dinamicii sistemelor.

The Conservative party had to slough off the grouse-moor image and find a meritocrat who could rival Labour's leader, and the new prime minister, Harold Wilson.

Only slightly less unfamiliar to the French or Japanese education meritocrat would be such staples of the American application process as the interview, the letters of recommendation, the focus on racial and ethnic diversity, and on interests and activities and "character."

He was, in every sense, an articulate meritocrat who since his return from Rome had become a passionate booster of his own hometown.