in absolute terms

It has nothing to do with how nice it is to be a postman in absolute terms but how nice it is relative to being a senior manager.

For a start, they are not simply trying to beat an index. Instead, their goal is to increase their clients' wealth in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, the company's cash position is larger than any other tech company's and amounts to 19% of the firm's enterprise value.

Although this is low in absolute terms compared with the sums spent by rivals, Huawei's low-cost base gives it a distinct advantage.

While rents in the West End have increased in absolute terms since the last report, rents in the other four most-expensive cities declined.

Africa, it continued, was a continent where poverty, both in absolute terms and relative terms, had been on the increase.

The problem is not simply that this figure is too large in absolute terms.

As a result of all this, ordinary households actually get poorer in relative terms and even in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, however, smartphones are expected to keep driving Samsung's profit upward for the rest of the year.

In absolute terms, the surplus was, however, almost entirely narrowed by the pull-back in export volumes.

In absolute terms, though, neither junk nor investment-grade bonds are seeing anything like the sell-off they had last summer.

"If there is evidence that some people are worse off in absolute terms, then that will be an issue of concern for the government, " he said.

This obviously will have to be in absolute terms rather than in relative terms.

Largely due to its reliance on coal, China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in absolute terms.

As a developing economy, under the Kyoto Protocol, China is not required to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in absolute terms.

Returnees said they were generally making less money in absolute terms, but they also said they enjoyed a higher quality of life.

He added that Korea's holdings of U. S. Treasurys are 'very small' in absolute terms and won't be affected by the S& P warning.

Low rate of tax will not be burdensome in absolute terms and reduce the reward of avoidance.

In the same way, when we describe the orientation of an object, orientation cannot be described in absolute terms.

Although prices are falling in absolute terms , energy is still expensive.

Still, in absolute terms, the number of upper-limb amputees is small, and the prosthetics market is hard to crack.

But he says: "The sum of the parts is substantial. We made the decision a decade ago that local markets would grow in absolute terms. "

eg. In absolute terms, wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living.

In absolute terms, the modern welfare state is reducing the scale of inequality by considerably more than it was in 1948.

In absolute terms, wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living.

That is not a position of strength, at least in absolute terms.

In many countries long-term unemployment has soared both in absolute terms and as a proportion of total joblessness.

Taking these two factors into account, emerging markets look quite expensive relative to developed markets and in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, the U. S. enjoyed an incline this past decade.

Output from sources like solar power is increasing faster in percentage terms, but remains tiny in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, they point out, more Chinese have moved to neighboring countries like Brazil and Venezuela.

Governance, according to data analysed by the ADB, has worsened in recent years in absolute terms and by comparison with other countries.

Besides increasing its share of many American markets, China is increasing the value of exports in absolute terms in some categories.

Big firms pay around twice as much as their South Korean rivals in absolute terms, yet tax revenues are notoriously weak.

And he couldn't, either, given that multiple other industries profit more both in absolute terms and in returns on equity or sales.

But its output per head is far higher in absolute terms, since US levels have themselves risen threefold.

The bigger the circle, the larger the balance is in absolute terms.

In absolute terms, too, cities can be huge wealth creators.

In recent years, undergraduate degrees in science have even fallen in absolute terms.

What I mean is that Chinese is not only hard for us (English speakers), but it's also hard in absolute terms.

In absolute terms the largest exposure is by banks from Austria, Germany, Italy and France.

True, the inventory ratio is inflated by falling sales, and in absolute terms inventories are falling.

There is, however, no convincing evidence that the UK middle class is suffering falling income in absolute terms.

Even in absolute terms, the $201 billion surplus was the smallest since 2005.

That Britain was still well off in absolute terms was scant consolation.

to cut emissions in absolute terms now would perpetuate an unjust pattern.

Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research reckons that this is the first time profits have outperformed wages in absolute terms in 50 years.

In absolute terms, there's little of Schumacher's experience in this new car.

So defining the middle class in absolute terms is hard (see article).

We are not negative on US or Japan in absolute terms, it is just that we expect them to lag the other regions.

But emerging countries are not yet big enough, in absolute terms, to ride to the rescue of the global economy.

In absolute terms, the new GDP series is slightly higher than the old series.

In absolute terms, Germany's current-account surplus is second only to China's.

For the past decade or so, the losses are at 1 percent or less, although in absolute terms the monetary figure is larger.

or in absolute terms, using a fixed band for all countries.

So defining the middle class in absolute terms is hard.

You can bring up a partition's Information dialog box to learn what its start and end sectors are in absolute terms.

Both America and Japan roughly doubled manufacturing output between 1980 and 2009; nowhere in the G7 has output declined in absolute terms.

CLIMATE scientists and conservationists have demanded we cut our emissions to 25 per cent below the 2000 level in absolute terms by 2020.

That is still a lot of energy in absolute terms, but the sums suggest it is within reach.

If exports fall in absolute terms, as in 2009, the pain will be greater.

If not, shouldn't their tips be the same (in absolute terms)?

In the mass movement, Mao Zedong thinks in absolute terms more and more, and equates the mass movement to the mass line.

That's a big number in absolute terms, but not in the context of China's rapid growth.

I just don't think that you can define cheating in absolute terms.

While many Chinese are getting richer in absolute terms, they are not getting richer in relative terms;

But in absolute terms, their share prices have fallen by over 25 per cent since mid-May

Switzerland has the highest concentration of rich people; America has the most in absolute terms