merit system

Because they stopped running the band on the merit system.

"Why don't we stop kidding ourselves that what we're doing is a merit system?"

And under my merit system you'll never get a raise.

He instituted a merit system in the police and fire departments.

But the real world, as Penrose had observed, did not run on the merit system.

They had come in because the merit system was a joke.

The bill proposes to move to a merit system in which points would be assigned for work skills and education.

Additionally, a number of private scholarships are given to the best students on a merit system.

On first, to make that call, there should be some kind of merit system.

"But a merit system is set up by those who are strongest."