Sentence examples for rather than absolute from inspiring English sources

Our ideas about fairness are relativistic, rather than absolute.

Russia's resistance to BMD has been strategic rather than absolute.

But this is an assessment of the relative rather than absolute needs of possible aid recipients.

Even then, the law is seen as malleable rather than absolute.

It backs the idea that what people really strive for is relative rather than absolute prosperity.

For instance, women get information about breast-cancer screening in relative risk, which looks big, rather than absolute risk.

In both cases relative rather than absolute frequency was important.

The truth has always been something of a matter of trust rather than absolute knowledge.

The analysis shows that matching may be based on normalised data rather than absolute values.

These patterns provide relative etch rates rather than absolute etch rates.

Using the ratio rather than absolute values also corrected for any influence of potential chromophores.