We talk about things in relative terms.

They're why stock investors hold onto losing stocks longer because they're evaluating them in relative terms.

The sharpest growth in relative terms was in the human services sector of EPI (Figure 4).

Instead, we find it very easy to think in very relative terms as options change from one time to another.

Between 1990 1991 and 2000 2001, virtually all the countries in that region increased their social spending in both absolute and relative terms.

1.76 Education is the Agency's largest programme, measured both in terms of its relative share of the Agency's budget and the number of staff.

This is crazy because it suggests that the monkeys too are evaluating things in relative terms and actually treating losses differently than they treat gains.

The cost shared budget estimates for the biennium 2006 2007 have been decreased by 4.4 per cent in overall terms relative to the budget for 2004 2005.

The cost structure of the unified budget (in terms of relative shares of management and administration, programme support and programmes) has remained stable over the past five years.

These countries differ in terms of the relative size of their indigenous and tribal populations, the legal recognition of their rights and the related institutional and policy frameworks.

Despite the relative calm and the slight improvement in terms of closure conditions over the past two months, there has been little improvement in the dire Palestinian economic situation.

But the US has done a great deal in terms of adopting tax cuts that boost consumption relative to income and lower government revenue relative to expenditure. This is the lasting legacy of the temporary tax cuts adopted by George W. Bush s administration in the early 2000 s.

The continual decline of tariff rates as a result of eight multilateral trade negotiations has raised the relative importance of NTBs in terms of both protection and regulatory trade instruments.

In relative terms, the largest group (although in absolute numbers probably rather small) consists of victims of Armenia's 1988 earthquake who spent long periods in temporary shelters before entering the territories.

But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America. By the outbreak of World War I, Britain ranked only fourth among the great powers in terms of military personnel, fourth in terms of GDP, and third in military spending.

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The economic booms in China and India have helped to reduce global inequality. Over the two last decades, masses of Indians and Chinese have closed the gap (in relative terms) with the rich world.

In relative terms, rich countries got even richer. There was growth in the poorer countries, too, but it was slower than rich country growth, and the discrepancy in prosperity between rich and poor countries increased.

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If the number of complaints is related to sectoral export value, the agriculture and food sectors turn out to be the ones with the largest number of NTB complaints in relative terms, followed by mining and textiles.

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Relative poverty, however, is significant.

Although an innovation in Government may be in relative terms a successful practice within a specific country, it might not lend itself to being replicated in other parts of the world because of the unique attributes of the case.

But you know, everything is relative.

The New Global Economy s (Relative) Winners

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The Day when Maulan (a near relative) cannot avail Maulan (a near relative) in aught, and no help can they receive,

And so, the multicultural nature and the sort of cultural melting pot that's happening inside Second Life is quite I think, quite remarkable relative to what in real human terms in the real world we've ever been able to achieve.

While in terms of the absolute number of Internet users developing countries already represent a very significant part of the global Internet, Internet penetration figures (i.e. users per 100 inhabitants) provide a different perspective into the relative access to the Internet.

Tom is a distant relative of mine.

Most developed countries experienced a decline in their respective shares of world steel consumption during this period, and most developing regions increased their shares only marginally (see table 4), except for China and the Middle East where, in relative terms, consumption rose faster.

The report also explained how the gap between developed and developing countries remains wide in both quantitative (number of users relative to population) and qualitative terms (bandwidth availability), even though some developing regions have recorded robust growth in the number of Internet users.

These are both stereoisomers relative to each other.

So allometric cranial ontogeny is relative skull growth.

UNHCR must not lose its relative financial stability.

Although the loss of life and extent of damage in my country in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami were small in quantitative terms, compared to others affected by the disaster, it has now become evident that in economic and relative terms, the impact of the tsunami on the Maldives is far worse, primarily as a result of the country's narrow economic base.

In terms of psychographic, you know, the people in Second Life are remarkably dissimilar relative to what you might think, when you go in and talk to them and meet them, and I would, you know, challenge you to just do this and find out.

Making matters worse, China s corporate debt is already the highest in the world, both in absolute terms and relative to GDP. In this context, increasing investment would not only reduce capital efficiency further it would also heighten the risk implied by companies high leverage ratios.