Andrew Carter, Conservative group leader, said the decision was "absolute lunacy" when other cities, including neighbouring Bradford, were looking at extending the amount of free-parking available.
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Yet results are getting worse, both in absolute terms and relative to other countries in South-East Asia.
Absolute humidity, on the other hand, refers to the actual amount of water vapor in the air regardless of saturation.
But they have definitely coincided with a period when the number of public companies in America has dropped in both absolute terms and relative to other countries.
Life expectancy at birth for US women is rising in absolute terms but falling relative to other countries.
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This implies that a creditors primary concern is not the absolute safety of a bond or other credit instrument, but its relative safety.
What we have said all along is that it sends the wrong signal and it would be a mistake to directly link, tie, or hold hostage one to the other because of the absolute necessity of raising the debt ceiling.
Shout shows, designed to get you screaming over or at other people, are the absolute pits.
European countries have hesitated for a couple of years about adopting so far-reaching a measure, since it requires absolute trust in the integrity of each other's legal systems.
In other words, girls may acquire an absolute advantage over boys as a result of equal treatment.
Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy.
Performance data show that sponsor-to-sponsor deals did underperform other types of deals slightly on an absolute return basis by 3 percentage points, on average, in the years prior to 2004, and by 8 percentage points since then, according to PERACS, a PE performance analytics company (see Figure).
But given her life lived to the absolute fullest, she also died very rich in many other ways.
The only thing that's certain: The absolute star athlete, with no obvious behavioral issues or other red flags, can skirt the process altogether.
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In other words, cheques never really cleared with absolute finality.
"The court did not see in the defendants elements of cruelty, or absolute disregard for human life that are often found in other murder cases and several crimes, " the statement said.
And we are talking about political cooperation of the two nations, out of which one is an absolute leader in the area of technology, and the other one, Poland, turned out to be one of the leaders in terms of deposits, resources.
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Now he wanted, more than anything, absolute relaxation: he wanted each day to be like every other, and its hours free.
Aitcheson not only codes his games, but also produces the art and every other asset he can, keeping costs to an absolute minimum.
No doubt Putin worried that a Yavlinsky candidacy might attract enough votes -- even if just 10% -- that together with votes for the other four candidates might have deprived him of an absolute majority in the first round of voting.
They all have generally favorable demographic profiles, lower absolute levels of national debt, manageable debt term structures, and many other positive economic and capital market factors.
Hitchens would often concede that he did believe in an absolute moral law- that people really should be good and nice to each other and respectful and peaceful.
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Rather than craft a test with a dictated and absolute minimum score, creating a relative measure that allows institutions to compete against each other on a level playing field for funds would have been much smarter and aligned to market realities.
" He added, "Instead, the G-7 should help ensure that new economic and financial authority ceded by the republics to a reconfigured Moscow center be kept to an absolute minimum -- unlike the somewhat heavy-handed proposals of Grigory Yavlinsky and other All-Union officials.
On the other hand, some women will want to keep their risk of complications at an absolute minimum.
Absolute Radio's Christian O'Connell is up for three prizes - more than any other presenter - including music radio personality of the year.
In fact, as Putin has moved to secure absolute power in Russia, he has relied heavily on fellow alumni of the Soviet KGB and other security services.
On the other hand, the compound annual growth rates for patents granted, though minuscule in absolute terms by U.S. standards, from India and China stand at 25 and 22 percent respectively for the same period (Figure 2).
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Many in the financial industry champion these investment vehicles as a means to deliver absolute returns, regardless of which way the market is moving on any given day, while providing other market participants with much need liquidity.
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