From this, astronomers can determine the real rather than relative scale of the sun and planets.
They also raise poverty measured against a fixed, rather than relative, poverty line.
However, any gains for Mr. Romney — in an absolute rather than relative sense — are hard to perceive.
In gymnastics, as well as Winter Olympic sports like moguls and freestyle skiing, a performance is judged independently rather than relative to other performers.
But the implication of her words is that to make 300 million Indians richer, 800 million Indians have become poorer in real, rather than relative, terms.
Behind the high-profile appointment of Frank Field to review government poverty policy seems to be a hidden agenda – redefining poverty so that is seen in absolute rather than relative terms.
The government is to scrap its child poverty target and replace it with a new duty to report levels of educational attainment, worklessness and addiction, rather than relative material disadvantage, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said.
At the very least, you would think that there would be a movement to change the performance fees so they are assessed relative to the market return, rather than relative to zero.
Thus, although it's clear that Mr. Romney is preferred by these party elites to any other current candidate, it's not clear how much enthusiasm there is for his candidacy in an absolute rather than relative sense.
They are open only to the rich, to whom they offer the prospect of making absolute returns rather than relative ones that is, they concentrate on making money, not on outperforming an index.Do hedge funds speculate wildly?
It has a good relative safety record but public perception focuses on total accidents rather than relative safety.
