relative power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandpower
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the standard view,relativepoweronly reflects market power.
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In more up-to-date terms, one might say that therelativepowerof a situation to sustain behavior matches itsrelativepowerto attract behavior.
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We re-categorized problem descriptions into themes to raise therelativepowerof the analyses.
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Macroeconomic performance is also expected to vary with therelativepowerof labor and capital.
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Coupled with this was therelativepowerof the family compared with that of medical practitioners.
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Cohesion andrelativepowerin family relationships and adolescent coping with a real-life stressful situation.
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Although these influence therelativepoweror weakness of actors in the power game, they are neglected.
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First, the decreasing gap inrelativepowerbetween the opponents created permissive conditions for the outbreak of war.
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This is a very important point, because the doctrine of unilateral liberalization abstracts from issues ofrelativepoweramong countries.
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This is the focus of chap. 6 and includes such aspects asrelativepowerand social distance between the interlocutors.
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An increase in co-operation should not, however, produce a net change in therelativepowerof members.
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They find therelativepowerdifferences between nurses and physicians (grounded principally in issues of gender) to have significant ethical import.
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Rules also reflect therelativepowerof different par ties to make them and decide which ones apply in what ways to specific situations.
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The withdrawal of the king from public activities seems to have occurred concurrently with changes in therelativepowerof the palace administration.
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Here, despite increased economic and social problems in the 1950s, the opposition focused on therelativepowerof the crown and the people.
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It has been argued that greater 'dependence' on capital inflows will increase therelativepowerof the outsider concentrated group coalition.
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As long as the center maintains itsrelativepowerover the provinces, it will be able to adjust central-local relations.
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But the power imbalance between clinicians and patients is, by definition, a matter of therelativepowerof the two parties involved.
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Either way, multilevel governance is argued to have a profound impact on therelativepowerof interest groups, the central theme of this special issue.
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The cost and benefit in this connection was determined by therelativepowerof the related countries as well as their politics and mutual rivalries.
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He resorts to a position ofrelativepowerby taking a managerial stance in an attempt to end the conversation altogether.
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Recent work continues in this vein, neglecting to theorize and research about interests in order to draw confident conclusions about therelativepowerof classes.
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Some districts in which male migration was widespread became known as ' women's kingdoms ' because of the preponderance andrelativepowerof women.
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Therelativepowerposition of those people is weak.
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