Sentence examples for absolute term from inspiring English sources

Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said that to him it implied people were interpreting "gun laws" as generic safeguards such as background checks, while "gun control" was a more absolute term which carried the implication of guns being fully taken away.

The comparative "older" has become an absolute term, in a way that mirrors the development of "elderly" 350 years earlier -- when somebody talks about "older Americans" nowadays, no one asks, "Older than whom?" Granted, many of those phrases reflect a new perception of age as an important social issue.

He thinks very little, if anything, is such that we are certain of it since "certainty" is an absolute term.

It follows therefore that an absolute term can have several distinct real definitions that don't always signify exactly the same things.

Further, he claims that since "certainty" is an absolute term, if we are more (nearly) certain of x than we are of y, y cannot be something about which we are certain.

On one hand, to capture linguistic information, Yu [18] employed an absolute term linearization technique and a fuzzy rating expression into a GP-AHP model for solving fuzzy AHP problems.

But they have increased in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, the numbers were grim.

Admittedly, this rate is not very high in absolute terms.

In Scotland and Northern Ireland they are falling in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, baseball is doing just fine — thriving, even.