"relative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Governor Smith asked at the time, frustrated by years of runaway spending, his inability to control the budgets of his own departments and his relative powerlessness.
- He once referred to himself as "boss polyester," a play on his Tammany Hall political lineage and his relative powerlessness as county leader.
- And perhaps that fact is rooted in the relative powerlessness of football players over their careers.
- What we see in Babylon Heights are human beings in a state of relative powerlessness, trying to cope as best they can.
- Given the relative powerlessness of Indians, such an approach softens the rules governing interethnic exchanges.
- It revealed America's need to blame someone rather than to accept tragedy and cope with the truth of our relative powerlessness against nature.
- He acknowledged today that he had been worn down by the relative powerlessness of the Democratic minority.
- The Revised Constitution of 1955 has been criticized for reasserting "the indisputable power of the monarch" and maintaining the relative powerlessness of the peasants.
- First, the relative powerlessness of the patient in the face of the doctor's superior knowledge can be exploited, particularly if the doctor has a direct financial interest in the outcome (the "overtreatment" problem, for example).
- This reflected the relative powerlessness of the Capetian kings, who, unlike their Carolingian predecessors, controlled only the Ile-de-France.
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