Sentence examples for relative past from inspiring English sources

"Understanding the fundamentals and risks of a fund's holdings is as important as, if not more important than, the relative past performance," S.& P. stated in its announcement.

Contrarian investment strategies refer to trading strategies in which stocks are classified as underpriced (value) or overpriced (glamour) based on relative past returns or accounting data.

To begin with, the verb final le in Mandarin Chinese expresses perfectivity and has a (relative) past interpretation (Smith 1997, Klein et al. 2000, Lin 2006).

The definition assumes that the time of evaluation for le is anchored to the utterance time, and leaves aside cases where le is embedded under a temporal phrase or where it expresses a relative past.

"The Time of Angels" takes place in her relative past, where she is a doctor, having not yet become a professor.

The Doctor and Amy travel to the Delirium Archive, a museum in the distant future and discover a message from Dr. River Song, engraved in Old High Gallifreyan, the language of the Doctor's home planet, on a damaged flight recorder from the starship Byzantium 12,000 years in the relative past.

Everyone I met was open about their or relatives past involvement with drugs.

Claiming he possessed fetal omniscience of the world before he was born, he discourses with complete authority about his relatives' past, limning their secrets and their dreams while pointing out coincidences and parallels in their lives, like an old-fashioned storyteller privvy to the playful machinations of the gods.

ITS is able to scour documents in a prominent historic database and offer family members with vital records of their own relatives' past.

Relative to past decades, more of today's best hitters play middle infield, like Hanley Ramirez and Chase Utley.

Going in hard, à la David Frost, on whatever constitutes the most shameful episode of your relative's past, will only make them clam up or detest you.