The relative complacency of the British, on the other hand, is also culturally determined.
The relative complacency is particularly evident among market timers who focus on the Nasdaq market.
The relative complacency of Fed officials also reflects their judgment that the mortgage-bond purchases announced in September are working.
Understandably, one administration official said, the government initially concentrated on countering threats to people, and the relative complacency about agriculture was partly a result of the nation's success in controlling disease.
Loftis (2005) challenges this relative complacency toward nonhumans and its contrast to the caution exhibited toward humans.
The VIX is clearly suggesting that the relative complacency in the market is making stocks in general vulnerable to the downside.
Others were appalled at the scale of the executions and at the relative complacency of many of their fellow Germans.
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, "after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures" the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle".
