In our company, people get promoted on merit rather than on seniority.

在我们公司，大家升迁是凭绩效而不是以年资而论。

In fact, it would be better if both she and Ruben believed he got in on merit alone.

其实，最好让他们母子都以为他是因为出色而被录取。

France requires a new honest system based on merit.

法国需要一个以功绩为基础的新的诚实制度。

And don't act like those magazines do everything on merit.

不要拿这种杂志来可怜我。

Talks broke down when Seoul insisted that athletes be chosen on merit, while Pyongyang wanted squads composed 50-50 from each nation.

韩国坚持按能力选择运动员，朝鲜则希望两国各出一半名额，会谈以失败告终。

Since the 1950s, the U.S. government has asked universities to end unfair admissions policies and to consider students based on merit.

自上世纪50年代以来，美国政府就要求大学终止不公平的招生政策，并根据成绩考虑接收学生。

But here's the thing Are we assuming that the existing status quo is somehow based entirely on merit?

但问题是我们是否假设现有的现状完全是基于功绩的？

Now, I finally had a dollar for every time someone said, up at all Appointments should be on merit.

这并不容易做到 现在 我终于有了一美元 每当有人说 在所有的任命应该是择优的。

States should change the message by raising tuition sharply and coupling the increase with generous scholarships based on merit and income.

各州应通过大幅提高学费并将提高与基于成绩和收入的慷慨奖学金相结合来改变信息。

Story believed in the concept of an elite American law school, based on merit and dedicated to public service: a tradition that continues today.

斯托里相信美国精英法学院这个概念，其基础是功绩和为公众服务，这个传统一直持续到今天。

Theirs is a hierarchical society based on merit, given out by each individual's specific prowess when it comes to hunting dangerous game.

他们的社会是一个基于功绩的等级社会，每个人在狩猎危险游戏时都表现出特殊的能力。

" The Asian American community gets harmed by this, because their educational achievements make them excellent candidates, if it was just based on merit, " Mr. Fitton says.

“亚裔美国人社区因此受到伤害，因为如果只考虑成绩，他们的教育成就使得他们成为出色的候选人。”

First, he promoted people based on merit rather than family position, and second, he brought lower classes of conquered people into his own tribe while dispossessing the leaders of the conquered clans.

首先，他根据功绩而不是家庭地位提拔人，其次，他将被征服的下层人民纳入自己的部落， 同时剥夺了被征服氏族的首领。

One stumbling block is that many people believe that the workplace is largely a meritocracy, which means we look at individuals, not groups, and determine that differences in outcomes must be based on merit, not gender.

还有一块很大的绊脚石是，许多人相信职场中奉行的是“一切看实力”的游戏规则，意思是我们只看个人而非群体的表现，而且导致结果不同的决定因素必然是实力而非性别。

The man who first suggested his candidacy, Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, told a reporter then that he believed Mr Luter would be elected “on merit, regardless of race or colour”.

首位推举他为候选人的是Danny Akin，北卡罗拉威客森林()南方浸信会神学院的院长，他告诉记者: 路特的当选是因为德才, 与种族肤色无关。