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relative
1. We know our needs and these may not necessarily be same as our relative or friend
2. Tell your older relative about the changes you observe and ask what he/she may be experiencing
3. Family members can help the older relative feel more involved by spending time with them
4. Family members can take turns visiting with a relative, taking them out to eat, going shopping, or doing other activities they enjoy
5. Give your older relative time to mourn a loss, but help her to move on once sufficient time has passed
6. Small loans are provided of around CNY 1,000 (USD 120) to families that include an elderly relative
7. For relative or friends, death is disaster; only to the soul death is a relief
8. Happiness, of course, is a relative thing
9. They are bickering happily as they leave the house, arguing over the relative merits of various colour schemes … what a pair!
10. She wasn’t exactly a blood relative,
11. in the process, but finally he managed to fall back onto the relative safety of his bed
12. with a good Strathspey malt, which she then took up to her distant relative
13. and time upon His shoulders, succumbing to the myriad energies of relative balance
14. After a thoroughly enjoyable half hour, debating the relative merits of the various plants on offer, I decide to buy a rather nice little Areca palm … small and neat … just right for the middle of the table; I splash out on a pretty pot to stand it in – my reward for having made a good start at The Laurels
15. We have no way to tell what fuel reserve it has remaining, theoretically it could have enough for a month's burn, giving it more 61-Cygni relative velocity that we have
16. As with Smiler and his off-hand brutality, the basic pattern of my existence shifted and I accepted the relative kindness of The Kid over the next couple of days
17. He placed them at the head of the mattress and then stood back, watching me, waiting like an expectant relative at a small child’s birthday party
18. New year, new (hopeful?) start: Despite the relative improvement of my social life in the last two years, I can't say I feel satisfied
19. Little by little, masses and forms started to regain a relative solidity, and all was soon shrouded in a deep purple twilight
20. Fumes: If they come out of the earth, a relative of yours will die
21. If it strikes you or your house, a relative will die soon
22. Maggots: If you dream of anything rotten and covered with maggots, you will hear about the death of a relative or a friend
23. If you see a bright star falling from the sky, your career will be stunning but it won't last; it could also signify the death of a relative
24. It’s all relative, you know
25. It was smaller, chunkier and lower than a theirops, but definitely a relative
26. without notice, freedom is a relative concept,
27. My only blood relative and living so far away
28. In relative terms everything seemed to be going well for the young woman until she encountered a group of local youths one Saturday afternoon
29. "Anything with a large enough relative motion is likely to be a halo object," Heymon said
30. "Most of the bodies with large relative motions are not undergoing course corrections," Thom said
31. Heymon and Elmore gave briefings on the strategic situation relative to the suspected Chinese vessel
32. Over the course of her first week in residence Annie, who was naturally quiet even in happy times, impressed her great-aunt with her obvious inner sorrow, which the old dear thought only fitting for a woman of the Craig line, and the next Saturday afternoon Annie received her first invitation to call on her relative in her own apartment
33. Her great-aunt watched over her throughout the afternoon, revealing snippets of family history, and sketching pictures from her own life story, all of which seemed to consist of too many broken hearts and broken heads, until, with the football results due in and Leonard Cohen starting to become a little bit overbearing, she turned to her young relative and asked, “Do you want to stay for dinner? There’s a DVD I want to watch and we could phone out for a curry”
34. Annie, knowing her brother from years of quiet observation, correctly suggested to her great-aunt that he would dedicate his new found personal freedom and financial independence to the pursuit of private digital excess, and it was this that great-aunt Edith was thinking about as she lay in bed after a very pleasant Saturday in the company of her poor, disappointed relative
35. She was even more impressed when she realised that her centenarian relative, having dispensed with a life of genteel blackmail in her early eighties, had subsequently taught herself not only the arts of silver surfing, but had also majored as a writer of hacking and viral software on a par with any young eastern European hotshot
36. “Our relative velocities are not different enough,” Heymon said
37. relative safety of the front room in their semi-detached home
38. Going to visit a relative 100 miles away used
39. Annie received her first invitation to call on her relative in her own
40. she turned to her young relative and asked, “Do you want to stay
41. Saturday in the company of her poor, disappointed relative
42. impressed when she realised that her centenarian relative, having
43. She wiggled, squirmed and crawled around the car and into the relative safety of the brush away from the tracks
44. Once inside the relative safety of the brush, she paused for a moment
45. her only living relative, and the old woman seemed to make it her
46. Once he had settled for himself their relative personal tastes and positions in society and industry, he listened more attentively to the banter with which the three men were engaged
47. She resigns herself to the long hours of dead waking, and as she tries to settle, as she tries to find a position of relative comfort, she asks herself a simple question; "Why, Billy, why can't you do something useful for a bloody change?"
48. out that Brad was a distant relative of mine, a third cousin once
49. David’s very special, my only relative apart from the next generation, and we’re very close, all the more so since our parents died
50. The lid lifts with relative ease and flips over