Sentences with phrase «marked by relative»

The next two to three years are marked by relative peace.

Not exact matches

The two - page document, marked «Top Secret,» mentions a draft decision paper that focuses on the «relative merits of retaining [deleted in document] as a high - priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph.»

«While stability is welcome, especially in the uncertain world we find ourselves in, it is nevertheless the case that the projected level of U.K. growth is low relative to both the U.K.'s historic performance and the rates of growth being achieved by the country's international peers,» EY's Chief Economist Mark Gregory said in the report.

The Plaza Accord is a 1985 agreement among the G - 5 nations (France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan) to manipulate exchange rates by depreciating the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche mark.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

The Metropolitan Police today admitted making a «mess» of the aftermath of Mark Duggan's death and promised to be much quicker in talking to relatives of people shot by officers in future.

The withdrawal of Mark Oaten from the race and the admission by rival Simon Hughes that he lied about his bisexuality have helped lift Mr Huhne - a relative unknown, only in parliament since last May - to second favourite behind Sir Menzies.

For example, the division plane at which cell division takes place is marked by correct patterning of specific proteins, and should be robust against alterations in the relative concentrations of the proteins involved.

As seen in this merged fluorescent image (early anaphase marked with magenta; late anaphase marked with green), such cells correct this problem by adjusting their cell membranes relative to the spindle (right), instead of shifting their spindles within the cell.

An imprinting mark region characterized by paternal allele specific methylation has been suggested to reside in a GC - rich region of 400 bp direct repeats starting at -2 kb relative to the H19 transcription start and extending upstream.

«In the end, all comes down to a contest between T'Challa and Killmonger that can only be read one way,» writes Christopher Lebron in a well - argued piece in Boston Review, «in a world marked by racism, a man of African nobility must fight his own blood relative whose goal is the global liberation of blacks.»

The BFG like all Disney films features yet another motherless child (I'm really getting tired of this meme), an orphan named Sophie (relative newcomer Ruby Barnhill) who gets kidnapped (for no explainable reason) by a lonely giant who calls himself the BFG (Mark Rylance).

Paramount will also be saving big money, too, by casting the likes of Hailee Steinfeld and relative newcomer Jorge Lendeborg Jr. over A-listers like Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Hopkins, and Knight surely will command a smaller director's fee than Bay ever did.

Within this model, text readability — specifically, its quantitative measure for relative difficulty — is set higher than the mark set by prior readability systems and reading comprehension assessments for each grade span.

The March 12th California State Board of Education (State Board) meeting was marked by a much more subdued tone relative to the packed house sessions that preceded it in November and September.

In their April 2010 paper entitled «Persistence Analysis of Hedge Fund Returns», Serge Amvella, Iwan Meier and Nicolas Papageorgiou investigate performance relative to high water mark by hedge fund strategy class.

In a year marked by record breaking gains, it is particularly important to measure the relative performance of active funds versus the indices as bull markets often present challenging conditions for active managers to overcome.

When a cat died, Egyptian households would go into mourning just like when a human relative had died, and they'd mark their grief by the same tradition of shaving their eyebrows.

Some dogs will never mark in their own house but will embarrass you by marking if you visit a friend or relative's home.

Johnson's distant relative who marks checkpoints in Shadows by leaving a flaming turd is called One Eyed Willy.

But it's all relative: Hauser & Wirth (which likes publishing a slew of results at fairs) reported the sale of a new mixed media work on canvas by LA - based artist Mark Bradford's for $ 2 million, as well as The Opaque (1947), an oil by Arshile Gorky, shown publicly for the first time since 1965.

One's perception of Marking Territory is influenced by their relative position, whether they enter the terrarium boundary or remain outside the P3Studio windows.

Light brush marks complement aggressive brush marks, defining each other with their relative differences; dense, layered, impasto surfaces lend presence to their flat counterparts; geometric or biomorphic forms are exalted by lyrical abstract markings.

As I write in Chapter 1 of the report, in comparison to the relative diversity in goals among national environmental groups historically, conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and aligned industry associations are marked by a much narrower outlook focused on limited government, reduced regulation and economic growth.

IPCC AR5 WG1 Ch.5 says: «The PETM was marked by a massive carbon release and corresponding global ocean acidification (Zachos et al., 2005; Ridgwell and Schmidt, 2010) and, with low confidence, global warming of 4 °C to 7 °C relative to pre-PETM mean climate (Sluijs et al., 2007; McInerney and Wing, 2011).

Widespread burning of ethanol as fuel may increase the number of respiratory - related deaths and hospitalizations relative to gasoline, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson.

Two summers back, here within view of Colorado Springs» Waldo Canyon conflagration, I vividly recall some details: a) a hoisted ember astonishingly re-igniting things across a mile wide mountain lake, breaching the NE perimeter; b) our relative humidity, the day of the blaze, was so low the am weatherman uttering «you night as well say we have none;» c) the flown - in Commander, on camera and perhaps the best mind in all the world on matters such, describing never before witnessed probabilities for live ember re-ignitions, as «perhaps two out of three;» & d) that sad day's all - time record setting mark of 101 F., here @ 6,500 feet + elevations, in that astonishing summer where lower - 48 averages jumped by more than a single degree Fahrenheit in one realm - altering excursion.

To oversimplify as least slightly, nuclear power accidents have been marked, over the past half - century, by relative infrequency, and their actual severity has been, while serious, not insurmountable.

More recently, and closer to home, there is the influence the Catholic Church had on the province of Quebec (and continues to have in some regions); clergy not only exercised a top - heavy influence on their followers by keeping them in relative ignorance, but also by isolating them from the rest of the world, which contributed to the increasing economic inferiority which came to mark the province and remained severe until the recent past.

Obtaining a letter of consent from the owner of a mark cited by way of objection, provision of evidence for a qualifying period of «honest concurrent use» with an earlier mark, or even having prior registered marks revoked for non-use, are some of the principal ways that refusal on relative grounds can be effectively surmounted where possible.

The refusal of an application on what are known as the relative grounds following scrutiny by a Trade Marks Registry examiner, is a feature of the existing statutory framework that intellectual property (IP) practitioners across the UK have come to know intimately.

Despite the bullish price - relative strength index (RSI) divergence and bullish price - stochastic divergence (marked by dotted lines), BTG is still stuck inside the falling channel.

Thus, a marital relationship marked by these characteristics would buffer the negative effects of poor vision whereby, relative to their peers in lower quality marriages, older adults with poorer vision who were in better marriages would experience fewer functional limitations, feelings of social isolation, and symptoms of depression.

Because of these rapid health gains in the general population, and despite some significant health gains being made by Indigenous peoples in the 1970s and 1980s, the relative health status of the two population groups is marked by a significant equality gap that has remained static or even grown wider across a number of indicators as set out below in the text under various sub-headings.