Through personal merit Ravesteyn was selected as rector of the university in 1545 and 1550.

People don't tend to get into boardrooms through merit.

A limited duty officer was a chief or other enlisted person who'd won a commission through merit.

You have to praise and savor when a woman can earn it through merit.

Selecting men for office through proven merit was an ancient idea in China.

Certainly the current crop of sons won their places through merit.

His nephew Annibale was appointed a cardinal, but only through personal merit.

It was nice to come across someone who had risen, like himself, through merit.

It chilled me to realize that there was no way to earn my freedom through merit.

A campus where all of the inmates would have won their place through academic merit just as in the world outside.