In recent years, Perry has taken a much harder line on revenues but not an absolute one.
The Republicans objection to tax rises is well known, but may not be absolute.
Yes, the boom was big in percentage terms but not as big in absolute terms as I had expected.
The Constitution gives the Senate wide powers to determine who can be seated in the chamber, but the authority is not absolute.
But, what investors really need to be concerned about is not absolute levels of pay, but rather the correlation between executive pay and shareholder value.
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The success rate may not change, but the absolute number of successes will.
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Mr Morsi has achieved not an absolute triumph but rather a reshaping of an existing deal with the army.
What matters is not the new wrinkles but the absolute truthfulness with which Writers' Theatre tells Mr. Sondheim's timeless tale.
Perhaps each society's richer people are also happier because happiness comes not from absolute wealth but from relative wealth--recall H.
What matters to your sense of well-being, happiometricians conclude, is not your absolute circumstances but how you stack up against the neighbors.
Why do they often become not just widely accepted but absolute orthodoxy, the things you have to believe in order to be a Very Serious Person?
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Many of today's multinationals are huge, not only in absolute terms but relative to recent history.
According to JP Morgan, the problem is not the absolute price level but the speed of the rise.
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And because people generally judge their fortunes not in absolute terms, but by comparing themselves to others, the super-success of the top 1% can make Mr. and Mrs.
Purser: As you correctly point out, the regulation states that the right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right, but must be considered in relation to its function in society.
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What matters to them is not the profitability of the loan but the absolute amount of money earned.
And so now the most important issue is not just absolute electric demand, but that the character of demand is changing.
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Since what matters is not just the absolute temperature level but the rate of change as well, it makes sense to try to slow down the increase.
You've got ideas that are showing concrete results in improvement, not in absolute test scores, but in the progress that that school is making, we're going to fund those improvements.
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After a meeting with City minister Lord Myners, officials from the charitable sector said they were "hopeful" that organisations would get all their money back but expressed disappointment they had not been given an absolute guarantee.
The study provides evidence that happiness is determined not only by relative income, but also by absolute income.
It's not the absolute smallest phone on Verizon but geez they need a little space to fit in that 176 x 220 internal color display, a VGA camera, a spacious keypad and an external color display too.
But bold moves require absolute commitment, which Japan may not be capable of demonstrating.
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Increased scope impels the imperative of education as not only an absolute right for all, but also a relative necessity to engage the avant-garde.
This is because investors should be looking not at relative value, but for the same high absolute returns that they would require of similarly risky equities.
Absolute job growth is good for political discourse, but not as much for consumer spending.
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The real way to determine if a stock is cheap or expensive is not on the absolute amount of the stock price, but on its valuation.
But the Spaniard, despite making a perfect start, was not at his absolute best on Friday.
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