Sentence examples for was only relative from inspiring English sources

And, because their poverty was only relative and house prices were racing ahead, creditors were happy to let them sink deeper and deeper into debt.

Smin was only relative to the separation factor of A/C pair but regardless of the separation factors of other pairs as well as feed composition, whereas Wmin was determined by the separation factors between the components together with feed composition.

When I finally managed to return to my previous activities, my recovery was only relative.

In two reports, the reduced decrease in the number of TFAl species during steam treatment for phosphated H-ZSM-5 was only relative when compared to non-phosphated H-ZSM-5 and the absolute number of TFAl species after steam treatment remained higher for non-phosphated samples.

Even its successes are only relative.

To be sure, as the documentary shows, fame is only relative.

A social movement is usually large, but, like duration, largeness is only relative.

But this is only relative: Kandinsky is so pertinent to the present because he tended to ignore the distinctions between abstraction and representation.

Uncertainty over the ANC's nationalisation policy is partly to blame.Yet South Africa's decline is only relative.

And so the distinction that Auden strictly draws between a torso and a landscape is only relative.

But even his most ardent persecutors must remember we are talking about the grey area of atomic weapons, where the term 'treason' is only relative".