Egypt's judiciary has long had a reputation for relative independence.
Amid the war-ravaged landscape of Somalia, the self-declared independent state of Somaliland has carved out a reputation for relative calm.
Costa Rica's reputation for relative transparency and order has brought in a lot of foreign capital in recent years, particularly in the high-tech sector.
He was a media adviser for the young Russian proprietor for two years, helping reshape Lebedev's reputation from relative unknown to becoming one of Fleet Street's more vocal newspaper owners.
With a reputation for relative rectitude, in India's rotten polity, she has also won grudging support from potentially troublesome coalition allies.What is more, several grandstand schemes for the poor have her handprints all over them.
There has been, however, relatively scant attention paid to the country's education crisis, which has been beset by underinvestment, declining reputation, and relative stagnation by regional standards.
Given that there is suggestive evidence that humans are concerned with their reputation score relative to that of others [ 5, 13, 15, 26] these high contributions may be perceived as a competitive, rather than cooperative, act and overly generous donors may risk social ostracism or punishment as a result.
Many of the staff he has lined up are veterans of the presidential bids of John McCain, who won the Republican nomination in 2008 despite his reputation as a relative liberal.
In a recent profile of Ryan by Alec MacGillis in The New Republic, Barney Frank dismissed his colleague's brainy reputation as being relative to that of other House Republicans, some of whom had just been implicated in a late-night escapade during a Congressional trip to Israel last summer.
