In 2010, 27 percent of first-time buyers received gifts from friends or relatives toward home purchases, up from 22 percent in 2009, according to a National Association of Realtors survey of 8,449 buyers released last fall.
Depending on the particular jurisdiction there may be a legal hierarchy of decision makers, which typically places the patient's most intimate relationship at the top (spouse or partner) and other relatives toward the bottom of the hierarchy (many Canadian provinces and US states have such a hierarchy written into health care consent legislation).
Mixed regression analyses showed significant positive and negative time × intervention interaction effects on attitude toward traffic violations, relative attitude toward traffic safety, and risk comparison, but not on intention and behavior.
Loftis (2005) challenges this relative complacency toward nonhumans and its contrast to the caution exhibited toward humans.
Others point to renewed contacts between Hamas and Cairo as a source of relative leniency toward Sinai's Islamists".
But in September, the city inaugurated the Pinakothek der Moderne, an extraordinary modern-art museum with works from Beckmann to Bacon to Beuys, which curators say represents a definitive break with the city's relative apathy toward 20th-century art.
Some Senate Republicans are pushing to postpone consideration of a bill that would upgrade United States defense ties with Taiwan, arguing that it makes no sense to pass it when Taiwan's government is in transition and China has acted with relative restraint toward its neighbor.
A13 Republicans Rethink Taiwan Bill Some Senate Republicans were pushing to postpone consideration of a bill that would upgrade military ties with Taiwan, asserting that it made no sense to pass the bill at a time when Taiwan's government was in transition and China had acted with relative restraint toward its neighbor.
Figure 1c shows that significant relative motions toward southeast with amplitudes of ~1 cm occurred in 1996 2000 (Period I) and 2007 2011 (period II) at stations 3002 3009.
The two systems differed greatly in their relative reactivity toward the curing additive bis(4-[3-aminophenoxy]phenyl -sulfone (m-BAPS).
