How to Use merit system in a Sentence

merit system

noun

• And should there be a merit system, as President Trump wants?
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Exempt employees are those that are hired outside the state merit system.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• An order for Stimpson to provide an accounting of all employees hired outside the merit system process.
  — al, 22 Aug. 2019
• The bill moved those visas elsewhere in the system and introduced a merit system that took into account multiple factors like family and work skills.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 1 Nov. 2017
• The images apparently were in response to the unanimous school board’s vote to use a lottery system for admission this fall to Lowell High School rather than a merit system based on academics, board members said.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who is spearheading efforts behind the measure, said protections for workers would not be damaged and the merit system would remain unchanged.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
• Strahl is a loan officer who has served on the city's Personnel Board, which advises the council and city manager on the merit system and personnel policies and administration.
  — azcentral, 1 June 2018
• In retirement, O’Connor has campaigned around the United States to abolish elections for judges, believing that a merit system leads to a more qualified and untainted judiciary.
  — CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• Classroom education is a farce; the merit system is an ongoing game of move-the-goalposts; and Elwood is enlisted on trips to transfer Nickel’s provisions to white businesses, or serve as free labor at the homes of the friends of Nickel’s minders.
  — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
• Such managers are part of the state’s merit system, but rank too highly to be eligible for representation by a state employee union that could negotiate bigger raises for them.
  — Jon Lender, courant.com, 1 May 2021
• Chris Taliaferro, head of the council’s Public Safety Committee, who argued that a merit system was still necessary.
  — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2021
• In Pennsylvania, one of only seven states electing judges at all levels, the issue of a merit system has hung around for years as a good-government initiative, sometimes inertly, sometimes charged up by one judicial scandal or another.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018

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