The phrase "absolute merit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the inherent value or quality of something without comparison to other factors.
Example: "The committee evaluated the candidates based on absolute merit, ensuring that each was judged solely on their qualifications and achievements."
Alternatives: "unqualified merit" or "intrinsic merit".
Her victory would satisfyingly combine both absolute merit and diversity.
The movie makes no obvious judgment on the absolute merit of either artist,, but it's clear where Baumbach places himself in the scale that runs from L. J. to Harold: the movie dramatizes the peculiar and self-defeating paradox of an artist who's a living cauldron of boiling passion but who, in his work, strives for perfection rather than vitality.
These evaluations did not challenge the absolute merit of the recommendations; rather, a more 'problematic' recommendation was identified as one where its perceived merit was lower relative to other recommendations.
Due to the graph-based data integration model and the Semantic Web technologies implemented in BiologicalNetworks [ 42], it is scalable in respect to the number of integrated resources and therefore allows integration of user's data--this is the absolute merit of the proposed system for studying host-pathogen interactions.
Whatever the absolute merits or defects of these proposals, they offer little new to those suffering from inequality, stagnating incomes and job loss and ignore the anger and sense of alienation characterizing significant swaths of European and American society.
The parent company was confronted with a series of major capital appropriation requests and had little understanding of either their absolute merits or the priorities that should be attached to them.
It was a Big Decision, one that pitted the absolute merits of free poop bags against pixels, and Thingy-ness against Green-iness.
Richard G. Menaker, a lawyer for the Seinfelds, said he had not seen the complaint but called the copyright infringement claim "absolutely without merit" and the defamation claim "absolute nonsense".
Malta further argued that, because quail and turtledove aren't globally threatened species (they're still plentiful in Asia), they didn't merit absolute protection, and the commission's lawyers failed to point out that what counted was the species' status within the E.U., where, in fact, their populations are in serious decline.
It is as though test scores, perfect grades and participation in the world of extra-curricular privilege are an absolute representation of merit.
Our rationale to assign the initial rating of "moderate" was based on the absolute and relative merit of human observational data in evidence-based decision making in environmental and clinical sciences.
