Sentence examples for are relative in the from inspiring English sources

But the figures are relative: In the first quarter of 1999, when the stock market was booming, only 73 new issues were priced.

Bene argues that quantum states are relative in the sense that they express a relation between a system to be described and a different system, containing the former as a subsystem and acting for it as a quantum reference system (here the system is contained in the reference system, while in Breuer's work the system contains the apparatus).

He wrote about needs "which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows".

(Lightness itself is relative; in the film "Titanic," the below-deck Irish provided the charge).

But if relativism is coherent in the case of etiquette why couldn't we claim that morality is relative in the same way?

But, as analysts say, the ghettoisation was relative in the sense that Muslim-dominated areas co-existed with Hindu-dominated ones.

These odds dropped when other risk factors were taken into account, such as whether the 18-year-old already had a mental illness or divorced parents, or whether there were relatives in the ­family with the illness.

The majority had been relatives in the nursing home for two or more years.

And so all "fast" bowling is relative, in that the experience of facing a ball delivered uncomfortably quickly is available to any player.

There are relatives in Poland.

The Milsteins are relative parvenus in the real-estate world.