In 1905, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity showed that there is no such thing as absolute time.
For some reason, most investors know not to take analyst equity ratings as absolute guarantees of future risk.
While issuance data shows borrowers placing far fewer long-dated corporate bonds (due in 10 years or more) in the first quarter than in recent quarters as absolute borrowing costs trend higher, the refinancing of short-term debt balances remains a common driver of debt issuance this year.
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Yes, the boom was big in percentage terms but not as big in absolute terms as I had expected.
Immediately after the call-off Peschisolido described the postponement as 'an absolute disaster' as the Brewers now face 25 games until the end of the season.
Former Irish prime minister John Bruton condemned the bomb threat as "absolute barren thinking".
Kat Davis, from Hemel Hempstead, was at the airport for 14 hours and described the situation as "absolute chaos".
Therefore I know as an absolute certainty the law needs to be clarified.
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Many businesses and farmers see backup diesel-run generators as an absolute necessity.
Dave emphasizes a flexible management style (known commonly as an Absolute Return strategy) and focuses on a risk managed approach to the markets.
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Robin Livingstone, editor of the Andersonstown News in west Belfast, said that many nationalists regarded Mr Trimble's focus on the IRA as "absolute hypocrisy".
There has been a 300% increase in stops of people classed as "Asian", although as an absolute figure it comes to about 3, 000 people.
What these people really believed and what gave them their whole strength was in the truth of the Bible as the absolute infallible word of God.
"We'll go down there as an absolute underdog probably with no pressure on us which is great and I think that's the best place for us to be, " he said.
But Sir Ronnie dismissed those claims as "absolute nonsense".
He argues that hedge funds are similar to private equity funds in that the hedge fund manager (who holds himself out as providing absolute, uncorrelated returns) has control over when to take clients and to commit their capital.
Berkley said industry risk models have all but abandoned the once common indicator known as "Absolute Maximum Loss, " preferring to base premiums on the more conservative "Probable Maximum Loss" calculation, which lowers damage estimates by factoring in long odds of catastrophic events.
The lessons from disruptive innovation suggest that these technologies may never be as good as the absolute best human tutor (for example, the raw capacity of vacuum tubes still outpaces that of transistors, which disrupted the vacuum tubes in the consumer electronics market), but they will be plenty close.
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Home Secretary Charles Clarke described the shooting of Mr Menezes as an "absolute tragedy".
His neighbour Liam Woods, whose land fronts on to Mr Ring's, described him as an "absolute gentleman".
Jamie Hepburn, SNP MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, branded the decision to close Abronhill as "an absolute disgrace".
He described the saga as an "absolute misery" for him and his family.
West Ham manager Harry Redknapp has described reports that he is signing Stan Collymore as "an absolute load of old tosh".
His comments were described as "an absolute disgrace" by Israeli President Shimon Peres, attending a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Jerusalem.
As far as hitting that absolute zero accident rate, Deluliis says that some shifts and mines have been accident-free for about a year.
The problem with this is that, once you have finished the game, you know this, in an absolute as well as a formal sense.
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This silver demand fell by 8.3% to 66.1 million ounces (2, 056 tons), although the report described this as the smallest absolute loss since 2001.
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But now our courts - and the problem lies mainly in British courts - interpret the right to a family life as an almost absolute right.
U.S. companies derive significantly more earnings from operations outside the U.S. than they did in 1976 (in proportional terms, as well as of course absolute inflation-adjusted terms).
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