Sentence examples for does relative to from inspiring English sources

"They have half the debt the United States does relative to G.D.P.

"It's not a question of what the Meadowlands does, but of what New York does relative to other sports markets".

In tournaments and at bridge clubs, identical hands are played at all tables, and each pair's or team's score is based on how well it does relative to others playing the same cards — a form of the game known as duplicate, one of whose purposes is to reduce the role of luck.

If the U.S. accepted immigrants at the same rate as Canada does, relative to population size, the current yearly total of about 1 million would rise to about 2.5 million, as Anderson pointed out in a recent Forbes commentary.

How has "Satyamev Jayate" done relative to your expectations?

A What the design builder was going to do relative to the other contractors.

One is how well the candidate is doing, relative to expectations.

Such judgments almost always depend heavily on how we're doing relative to others in the same local environment.

In addition, Mr. Smiley posited, reasonably enough, that what matters to people is not how they are doing relative to the rich but how they are doing relative to their own past and their own expectations.

"Looking at what some of our competitors did, relative to the size of our sales force, we did excellent," Mr. Weill said.

But most people care far more about how well they are doing relative to their neighbours, than to citizens of distant lands.