Looking to 2004, the National Association of Home Builders forecasts that single-family housing starts will decline 3%, though the absolute figure will still be sky-high.
But while these are warning signs, it is not clear that the harm in absolute numbers will be great even if the worst should happen and significant amounts of radioactive waste are spewed into the air or the ground.
Religious organisations which do not want to host same-sex weddings will be given an absolute guarantee that they will not be forced to do so.
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.
If you preach absolute moral values, you will be held to absolute moral standards.
It would be great if someone could tell you with absolute certainty what will happen over the next year or two.
Which means their levy payments will rise both in absolute and relative terms: the burden on British banks will increase.
And so will the absolute lack of affiliations if a pair of pending deals goes through.
The success rate may not change, but the absolute number of successes will.
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If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a run-off between the top two contenders, most likely in mid-October.
Conveniently, this ensures that, however poor results are in absolute terms, there will always be more headlines about better-than-expected profits than about disappointments.
Sure, should the laws of nature behave in perfect alignment, dough would perform with absolute military precision and will, each and every time, bake to a perfect 12-inches.
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China is the world's fastest-growing market (see chart 5), and by around 2010 total spending in absolute dollar terms there will probably be increasing faster than in America.
Even if growth rates never return to their glory days, we are on the verge of realizing absolute annual gains that will be permanently larger than in the Golden Age.
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Mr Moore said it meant there was "a bit of unfinished business" involved in this year's competition and that being put forward was "an absolute honour and we will try our hardest".
Furthermore, no absolute level of PSA will work.
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If no candidate wins an absolute majority, a runoff will be held Aug. 11.
He has absolute power, and it will be hard to resist the Dark Side.
The loss of control is yet another possibility, but it's one that for Eni will be an absolute last resort.
However, I have absolute confidence that this resolution will be stuck to.
Taking discretionary action to cut spending now will be an absolute disaster.
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Petkus said the deadline wasn't absolute, and that negotiations will continue.
There are still local controversies, but people like vice chairman Donald Macinnes believe this will become an absolute magnet for golf nuts from all over the world.
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Unless you really get along with somebody, those people will do their absolute best to tell you the same boring things they tell everybody in order to not make any mistakes and get in trouble with their publicists.
"As we sense in real time more and more about the individual, such as moods and behaviour, we need to provide near absolute guarantees that the information will not be subject to theft or attack, down to the silicon melting and still not giving up its data, " says Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker.
My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic: it will be categorical and absolute.
All of which will result in an absolute mountain of data being generated over mobile banking channels.
Even now, most polls suggest that the conservatives and their likely post-election allies, the Free Democrats, will not win an absolute majority of the vote.
There is an absolute steadfast determination that this command will work.
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