Sentence examples for grounds for relative from inspiring English sources

The world is therefore falling well short of its carbon target – though there are some grounds for relative optimism.

Consider some of the facts that are, indeed, grounds for celebration: relative to the original Millennium Development Goals, the goal of reducing poverty by half was accomplished five years early; more than a billion have been lifted out of poverty in the past twenty years; by 2030, the total number of poor people will be down to 200 million, with virtually none in China.

The new spectrum, SDC, can be estimated by using the empirical scaling equations for relative displacement spectra, SD, and for peak ground velocity, vmax.

It would allow anyone to cite the distress of a relative or friend as grounds for censorship".

Famously, Derek Parfit (compare McMahan 2002) supplies grounds for assessing our interests in a temporally relative way instead of a temporally neutral way.

It is also shown that constant values of ground conductivity and permittivity are able to lead to results comparable to those obtained with a dispersive ground model provided a suitable value is selected for the ground relative permittivity.

Looking for relative silence?

THE relative calm that America's armed forces have imposed on Iraq is certainly grounds for cautious optimism.

Their grounds for suspicion?

Grounds for scepticism are plentiful.

There are grounds for scepticism.