Sentence examples for thinking of relative from inspiring English sources

Voters who embraced Trump weren't just thinking of absolute economic growth: They were thinking of relative economic growth and what it meant for their relative status.

What's your thinking of relative roles of nurture vs. nature in the progression, or lack thereof, of major diseases we see later in life, i.e. heart disease, cancer, dementia, etc.

"He was thinking of his relatives, of his children — he has two daughters.

He said he was so concerned that he was thinking of joining relatives in Afghanistan – a substantially more dangerous place than the leafy suburban streets of Islamabad.

And at 43 Across, I was thinking of a fruit relative of the avocado, not the color, which turns out to be SAGE GREEN.

He should meet everyone on equal grounds and should always act as if he were thinking of a close relative (ch.1. For translation see Unschuld 1979, 29 33).

Now, with nothing else to do in LA, I wrote a few paragraphs, and digging them up now, I find that this is what I was thinking: In the times of relative peace and security that we tend to call "normal," when we take the basic order of our immediate world largely for granted, we may feel free to choose or imagine the degree to which we claim connection to the people and places we call home.

Though there are certainly millions across America right now cranking U2 and thinking of long-lost relatives swimming in Galway bays, there are many more with no relation to Ireland whatsoever jumping on this St.

Although students were able to correctly define fitness as being a measure of reproductive potential, they appeared to have difficulty thinking of fitness as a relative property that varies as a function of multiple environmental variables.

It is concluded that applications of pairwise comparisons would benefit from permitting participants to choose the scale that best models their own particular way of thinking about the relative preference of attributes.

This study used a 2 × 2 between-subjects design and the principles of relative and referent thinking to examine the influence of the starting price (whether the starting price deviates from the reference price) and the promotion program (price vs. non-price) on consumers' online bidding for hotel coupons.