Relative in sentence

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So an 82 percent absolute reduction translates into a 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gas intensity relative to sales.

In fact, relative to the option in the middle, which was get only the print for 125, the print and web for 125 looked like a fantastic deal.

This winnowing effect together with a strong cultural predilection for marrying and reproducing only within the Ashkenazi community, would have amplified the relative frequency of carriers, boosting TB resistance but increasing the incidence of Tay-Sachs as an unfortunate side effect.

And here we suddenly begin to have a mapping between curvature that we can exploit numerically, a relative mapping between curvature and shape.

Questions were adjusted for each age group, and a child’s score reflected how they performed relative to others their age.

But you know, everything is relative.

And doing this for 14 billion years, we end up with this picture, which is a very important graph, showing relative abundances of chemical elements in sun-like stars and in the interstellar medium.

And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

So this is fun for finding where things are relative to the old topography.

Which is that, actually, first one, all value is actually relative.

What matters is how likely or unlikely, relative to each other, the two explanations are.

You'll discover compassion and also slowly a relative compassion, and slowly, perhaps if you get the right teaching, you'll discover compassion is a dynamic manifestation of the reality of yourself, which is oneness, wholeness, and that's what you are.

And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.

There is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it.

And when I think about that, I think about a vacation we had in Antarctica a few years ago, which was clearly the best vacation I've ever had, and I think of it relatively often, relative to how much I think of other vacations.

Now, I may be a bit extreme, you know, in how little appetite I have for consuming memories, but even if you do more of this, there is a genuine question: Why do we put so much weight on memory relative to the weight that we put on experiences?

They started to build flyovers to get from A to B faster, but they effectively went from one area of relative wealth to another area of relative wealth.

Asian elephants are the closest relative to the woolly mammoth, and they're about the same size, genetically very close.

His team have been making detailed calculations of the relative impacts of different energy sources.

You know, so you can take comfort in the fact that this guy up here is a really really distant, but albeit evolutionary, relative.

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

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.

We need relative figures that are connected to other data so that we can see a fuller picture, and then that can lead to us changing our perspective.

It also happens to be a relative of parsley.

So, I form friendships and co-worker and sibling and relative relationships with other people who in turn have similar relationships with other people.

We talk about things in relative terms.

I started to feel guilty for my own relative wealth, because I wasn't doing more, apparently, to make things better.

I began talking with people who actually had been out to the gyre and were studying the plastic problem in the marine environment and upon doing so, I realized actually that cleaning it up would be a very small drop in the bucket relative to how much is being generated every day around the world, and that actually I needed to back up and look at the bigger picture.

At a relative short 88 minutes it still seems too long and you'll find yourself fast-forwarding quite a bit.

Not worth the time unless maybe your a relative of one of the actors.

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