Sentence examples for relative ones from inspiring English sources

They measure mobility over a lifetime (rags to riches, or the reverse), between generations (how children do relative to their parents), in absolute terms (whether children are richer or poorer than their parents) or in relative ones (whether children are higher or lower on the income ladder than their parents).When countries are growing fast there is a lot of absolute upward economic mobility.

It's hard to imagine that this sort of rehabilitation will occur in Afghanistan as long as the fighting with the Taliban and Al Qaeda goes on, and unless enough money is available to underwrite more success stories — even relative ones, like the new road between Kabul and Kandahar.

Therefore, absolute values are converted into relative ones, which allow a direct comparison between different batteries.

The reference first-break is subsequently used to calculate final first breaks from the relative ones.

New energy sources and techniques to sustain and propel society don't displace old ones in absolute terms, just relative ones.

Solvents have fallen in absolute terms, but risen in relative ones from 29% to around 40%4.

The difference between these two antibodies is a relative one, mainly based on different assessment techniques.

We are unable to stop fretting about our motherland, as though she were an eccentric relative one could neither fully trust on her own nor stop loving.

Google allows you access to them via its G+ app on iOS, but that's a relative one-way ticket.

I had one of those with this song, driving to visit an elderly relative one frosty winter morning last year.

Yet the freedom that was granted by the imperial parliament to enslaved men and women was a relative one.