Sentence examples for has moved relative from inspiring English sources

Faults are the fractures where a block of earth has moved relative to the other.

However, the side chain of (R)- 2 has moved relative to the position of (R)- 1, allowing interaction of the methoxy group oxygen atom with the positively charged R1173.

Galle and d'Arrest identified Neptune as an uncharted star that same night and verified the next night that it had moved relative to the background stars.

Close examination shows that the edges of Europa's crust on either side of the cracks have moved relative to each other.

In July 2009, University of Melbourne physicist David Jamieson announced new evidence suggesting that Galileo was at least aware that the star he had observed had moved relative to the fixed stars.

In only a few decades, the most populous country on Earth has moved from relative isolation to center stage.

This plate has moved east relative to both North and South America at a rate of 10 to 20 millimetres per year for tens of millions of years.

She says that the Town Board has moved with relative haste in the 20 months since it received the developers' application and that similar-size projects on Long Island have taken far longer.

That Mr. Imus has moved with relative ease from transgression to redemption is — to some — a reflection of the country's collective attention span, which these days can be measured by the time it takes to watch a video on YouTube (where tens of thousands heard his ill-fated remarks last spring) or to scan a blog item on the gossip site Defamer.com.

Wrote Steinberg: "Mr. Imus has moved with relative ease from transgression to redemption".

Estimate how far the edge of your thumb has moved sideways relative to the object's width.