The place is now subject to competitive examination, but the Commission sees no good reason why one rule should not apply to all the Departments; hence this recommendation.
The measure which, with slight variations in its details, has lately been urged upon the attention of Congress and the Executive has as its principal feature the scheme of competitive examination.
The absence of these traits is not supplied by wide knowledge of books, or by promptitude in answering questions, or by any other quality likely to be brought to light by competitive examination.
But the custom, in this district, has always been for the Congressman to appoint the boy who comes out best in a competitive examination.
Now, in this state, appointments to West Point are almost always thrown open to competitive examination.
Admission to the School of Application as resident physicians and pharmaceutists, is gained by passing successfully a competitive examination.
Secretary in the Department of Agriculture, as excepts "clerk to act as appointment clerk" is hereby revoked, and that position will hereafter be treated as subject to competitive examination.
He could have passed a competitive examination on that subject before Mr. Freeman, or held a public discussion with Professor Bryce himself.
Bateson has likened natural selection to a competitive examination to which every organism must submit.
Our art of choosing the most unfit man by competitive examination?
Men who carve behind screens ought to pass a competitive examination before a jury of gastronomers.
The class of girl clerks take the same subjects in a competitive examination.
Candidates for the Indian Forest Service have to pass a competitive examination, one of the compulsory subjects being German or French.
The Indian Police Service is entered by a competitive examinationof very much the same kind as for the forest service, except that special subjects such as German and botany are not included.
The Civil Service was divided into two branches, both open to competitive examination.
But all that could be ascertained without the perils of competitive examination.
The system of competitive examination is, I think, based on a supposition that there is no difference.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "competitive examination" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
