Many of today's multinationals are huge, not only in absolute terms but relative to recent history.
But relative to the spill response, we find that they are doing what they should be doing.
Barclays for example has quite large retail loans in Spain, but relative small loans to the Spanish government.
Granted iPhone sales were slightly under what the sell-side analysts would like, but relative to expectations it was no calamity.
But relative newcomers can also make the cut, such as Hunter Sims-Douglas.
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But relative to other major oil companies, did he see a bargain?
But relative outperformance was never the stated objective of the industry.
It's the exact same set of functions as you'll find on the Incredible S, but relative to the Desire, it marks a significant upgrade in usability.
"Clearly, it's telling us that these results are poor, but relative to what people were expecting, they're not so bad, " Jeffrey Lindsay, analyst at Sanford C.
But in relative terms, Canada is doing rather better than most other rich countries.
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An impressive civil-defense effort has been made, but only relative to the absence of anything before it.
Life expectancy at birth for US women is rising in absolute terms but falling relative to other countries.
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Yesterday AAPL spiked in the morning but showed relative strength in the afternoon to reverse into negative territory.
But a relative, who works for the BBC, said Mr Faisal would not have taken his own life.
He apologized for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative.
Meanwhile, the brand, as a trusted retailer of books, remains strong, but its relative value is a fair question.
True, but the relative weighting is very close to that of the index.
Much has happened since 2005, when the World Bank last collected its data, but the relative orders of magnitude are still striking.
Perhaps each society's richer people are also happier because happiness comes not from absolute wealth but from relative wealth--recall H.
This implies that a creditors primary concern is not the absolute safety of a bond or other credit instrument, but its relative safety.
McConaughey, also a best-actor nominee at the Spirit Awards for "Killer Joe, " is a Hollywood A-lister but a relative newcomer to key film awards.
But the relative proportion of total fuel use can be extrapolated by comparing passenger kilometers traveled versus tonne-kilometers for freight on the top 10 carriers.
Its true that our biotech deals tend to raise more than internet startups, but the relative capital intensity vs all other sectors has been incredibly stable.
No, of course, no one knows whether this will continue into the future but those relative prices are, and have been, moving in the wrong direction for cloud computing over recent years.
Anticipation of at least some higher tax rates has already resulted in income shifting that will, ironically, result in higher tax revenues this year but a relative dearth after higher tax rates come into effect.
With no signs of trauma, authorities initially ruled he died of natural causes, but a relative came forward with suspicions that prompted a fuller examination that led to the startling conclusion that he was intentionally poisoned.
Microsoft's SkyDrive is now one of the centerpieces of the company's desktop and mobile platforms, but its relative newness has denied us some of the fine-grained control we've taken for granted from services like Dropbox.
Authorities are not releasing the name of the relative who made the 911 call but said the relative was the only other person home at the time.
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