Over time, Americans have become more sedentary and food has become much cheaper in relative terms.
The budget proposals, however, claim to "protect education and social work in relative terms".
Those grievances are not, in relative terms, very serious, but voicing them aloud is deemed unseemly.
But in relative terms, Canada is doing rather better than most other rich countries.
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And in relative terms, they would be the largest cuts as a percentage of GDP since 1982.
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In relative terms then, Newt is hotter than Mitt, but he is way behind in real terms.
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Education and social work are to be protected from cuts "in relative terms" by Glasgow City Council.
When reading about any business problem or challenge, how often do you see the problem stated in relative terms?
The global economic slowdown, however hard it is hitting Asia, may in relative terms serve to bolster Asian influence.
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Sports records, too, are always presented in absolute terms, where they have far less meaning than they do in relative terms.
In the U.S., Dodd Frank placed a deadline on identifying the parties to a swap, so the CFTC had to move quickly, in relative terms, at least.
One of the few exceptions was the Paisley Daily Express, while the Press and Journal's performance was actually one of the best in the country in relative terms.
They are, instead, most suited to fostering a climate in which that radical restructuring can be forestalled and a significant Soviet threat maintained, if not strengthened in relative terms.
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Losing talent and watching cash decline in relative terms, it's my guess that Gates and Ballmer decided enough was enough--it's time to go to war against these troublesome dot-coms.
"But very little had to be added in the fourth quarter - the subprime crisis has up till now, in relative terms, had a very modest effect, " he added.
In relative terms, the Welsh Government is not a particularly large organisation but it is complex and despite work to push cross-cutting policy agendas, many departments still operate within policy silos.
In relative terms, they are great successes, and we know that we will suffer casualties, which is very unfortunate, very painful to us, but we must make sure Israel will not be attacked.
Nor does Lloyds' official fall back position, of floating Verde on the stock market, look particularly appealing, because stock-market valuations of banks are lower in relative terms than even what NBNK has offered for Verde.
"London is the only region characterised by high percentages of both breadline poor and asset wealthy households and by a very small, in relative terms, percentage of households that are in the middle, " the report found.
For no matter what efforts South Korea makes on the global stage, it is still a shrimp among whales in its own region, and even there the power of its American godfather may decline in relative terms.
The study also showed that the income of the poorest population was approaching, in relative terms, the international poverty line over the period: the distance between the income of the poorest and the poverty line was reduced from 6% to 2.3%.
The slugging decades of the 1950s, '60s, '90s and 2000s show that a host of players--Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew, Bonds, McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro--come in lower in relative terms than their lifetime home run totals suggest.
We are always speaking in relative terms, and cordoning off the entire population of America and lumping us on one side and then taking the average wealth of everybody else and lumping that on the other is a fine way to blur true distinctions and actual class issues.
In the middle ranks, outside hotspots such as London, the south-east and Bristol, the rewards are often not out of line with those for comparable private-sector jobs, if pensions, benefits and holidays are all added in, and have recently been rising in relative terms as private-sector pay has stalled.
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Whether in absolute or relative terms, whether in comparison to our own experience or the performance of our competitors, America's wealth-producing ability has been diminished.
Since 2005, when China started de-pegging gradually from the dollar, the yuan has appreciated around 25% in nominal terms and about 50% in real terms relative to the dollar, according to a report by The Economist.
Yet results are getting worse, both in absolute terms and relative to other countries in South-East Asia.
Which means their levy payments will rise both in absolute and relative terms: the burden on British banks will increase.
In recent years the U.S. has improved relative to Japan in terms of productivity and the terms of trade, and the interest-rate differential has widened in America's favor.
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