Yet the Chinese authorities' conversion to environmentalism is not absolute.
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That is not absolute and also not remotely involved here.
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While Congress' investigative power is not absolute, it is very broad.
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That's right: even the right to represent yourself is not absolute.
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Facts are not absolute and certain, but malleable or easily omitted.
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The FBI's right to know the truth, however, is not absolute.
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Her belief that national interest outweighed political consequences was not absolute.
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"Rights talk" deals with the relative and alienable, not absolute and inalienable.
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"His control is strong but it is not absolute," Mr. Pineda said.
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This rare patch of bipartisan cooperation shows gun rights are not absolute.
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In cases where a crime is ongoing, physician-patient privilege is not absolute.
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Most citizens are surprised to learn that freedom of speech is not absolute.
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Color is always changing, and, contrary to popular belief, it is not absolute.
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This prosecutorial discretion is not absolute or subject to exercise on a whim.
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The reason for this, as Einstein discovered, is that time is not absolute.
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"They were trying to make things absolute that were not absolute," Ross said.
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Fed Board members have substantial, but not absolute, power at the central bank.
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But then we must all remember that your fundamental rights are not absolute.
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We use poverty rates, not absolute numbers, in discussions of US poverty as well.
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Legal scholars of all political stripes acknowledge that a constitutional precedent is not absolute.
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It's clearly not absolute in connection with court proceedings and it's also clearly available.
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The showdown in Loyalton is raising the possibility that California's pension promise is not absolute.
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State lawmakers have broad leeway to lengthen limitations periods, but their power is not absolute.
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Relative — not absolute — economic insecurity plays a major role in the development of these attitudes.
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Not judgment, not absolute truth, but a son's sincere journey to learn more about his father.
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"If there's not absolute clarity, it's very difficult to move local and foreign investment," Mesa said.
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"The right of access is not absolute, but the right to a fair trial is," Frankel said.
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But that's not absolute, so there's a small chance that it could work out in his favor.
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Nixon, ruled that while a claim of executive privilege was at times defensible, it was not absolute.
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"There's no question in my mind that this thing is very fluid and not absolute," he said.
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Congress granted the President broad power to deny entry to aliens, but that power is not absolute.
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All our knowledge of the world depends on experience, which means that it is contingent, not absolute.
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Part of living in a free democratic society is that we recognise that personal autonomy is not absolute.
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First off, our right to privacy is not absolute: The Fourth Amendment guarantees us protection against illegal searches.
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Even the First Amendment -- which says there shall be no law restricting freedom of speech -- is not absolute.
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"The challenge with all of this is the value of financial assets is not absolute," Mr. Memani said.
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But the privilege is not absolute, and there is an exception for communications made to further a crime.
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"Machine III reveals that the interface is not absolute, and suggests that no interface is universally optimal," Keats said.
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"The freedom, however, is not absolute," the tribunal said at the time, citing the Hong Kong Bill of Rights.
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However, the link is not absolute: Some women with Zika give birth to babies with microcephaly while others do not.
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The right to free speech is not absolute, as anyone who shouts "fire" in a crowded theatre will soon discover.
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To start with, the boundary between science and pseudoscience is often not absolute, and therefore it's subject to individual interpretation.
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The powers of the presidency are immense, but they are not absolute and cannot be used for a corrupt purpose.
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The restrictions were onerous but not absolute; residents were sometimes permitted to leave during the day and return at night.
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While these voters remain in the minority, support is not absolute among the majority who want to legalize the young immigrants.
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Not absolute solitude—like you are sitting in a jail cell somewhere—but I'm talking about things just being settled around you.
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Border security is now undoubtedly tighter but, for those wanting to sneak over, not absolute - and help remains available for a price.
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Pink noise is closer to how the human ear and brain perceive sound, which is in terms of octaves, and not absolute frequency.
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The right is not absolute, and it does not apply to all substances — but it does mean that total marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional.
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Yes, the current President has broad discretion to reverse the executive action of a prior President, but no, that power is not absolute.
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Although proposed Right to Try legislation prohibits FDA from using clinical outcomes to interfere with the approval process, this protection is not absolute.
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Instead, we have to accept that our knowledge of the world is not absolute, as much as we might like it to be.
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However, reported power struggles with owner Roman Abramovich and the appointment of Avram Grant as director of football meant Mourinho's authority was not absolute.
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Jimmy Gurulé, who served as assistant attorney general for George H.W. Bush, insists that the constitutional right to hire and fire is not absolute.
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This shield, however, is not absolute and technology companies are, for example, required to comply with notice-and-takedown requests to remove copyright material.
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The Court recognized that the Second Amendment right is not absolute, any more than free speech or other rights in the Bill of Rights.
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The chart shows percentages — not absolute counts — for the 20 categories of disease deaths the CDC tracks, as well as deaths from external causes.
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While Malaysians have the right to assemble peacefully, the "right is not absolute," and authorities could take actions to ensure public safety, the statement said.
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But it's important to realize that this is not absolute, and kids will not always react to situations with stronger and simpler emotions than adults.
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"Privacy is not absolute," it declares: The governments "may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions" if companies don't cooperate.
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When no social context or moral agent is involved, as in online commerce or digital currencies, privacy obligations seem less compelling and certainly not absolute.
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In short, everyone benefits from the plan with the middle class benefiting in percentage, but not absolute terms, by almost as much as the rich.
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However, parental rights are not absolute, and in cases in which doctors and parents disagree, the courts may exercise objective judgment in a child's best interest.
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He holds executive branch authority over the Justice Department, but under America's constitutional system, executive power is not absolute and no one is above the law.
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This difference is important but not absolute, because the Securities and Exchange Commission generally requires large institutional investment managers to file quarterly reports listing their holdings.
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As shown during the Nixon administration, executive privilege is not absolute and can be overcome when there is a legitimate investigatory purpose, particularly a criminal investigation.
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It requires a simple, not absolute, majority, said Iraqi legal expert Tariq Harb, but at least 165 lawmakers must vote for a decision to be valid.
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The number of drug-induced date rapes in the U.S. appear to be on the increase, although there are not absolute numbers, according to the Department of Justice.
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Because an abortion is a medical service, and not something a woman decides or does by herself, her right to decisional privacy in this matter is not absolute.
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Only so many qualifying points are available in each, and while Baffert has a major say in which horse races in which race, his decisions are not absolute.
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That said, to recognize that the aims of inclusion and free expression are not mutually exclusive is to recognize that these constitutionally grounded rights are also not absolute.
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Reviewers say the lights won't get hot even after being plugged in for 12 hours, and that it's not absolute garbage because it still works after a year!
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The Second Amendment right is clearly not absolute (any more than First Amendment rights) and the Supreme Court has already indicated that it is open to reasonable limitations.
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During Watergate, the Supreme Court upheld the concept of executive privilege but found it was not absolute and unqualified and should not be used to cover up presidential wrongdoing.
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Pink noise is used instead of white noise because it's closer to how the human ear and brain perceive sound, which is in terms of octaves, not absolute frequency.
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That privilege is a little tricky, nuanced and not absolute (just look at Presidents Nixon, Clinton and Bush), and such an assertion might put more of a cloud over the presidency.
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It also shows where the player's control over the state collides with the foibles and weaknesses of the characters who serve it, but over whom the player's control is not absolute.
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The citizens of nowhere have a point when they root the new nationalism in economic inequality; but the driving force is not absolute poverty so much as a relative loss of agency.
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They have resisted the temptation to opt for political stability over electoral justice, and they have sent a signal to the continent's leaders that the power of the executive is not absolute.
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Constitutional rights are not absolute — freedom of speech does not protect libel or obscenity or perjury — but knowing how to make careful exception is the core of the Supreme Court's judicial task.
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" He said that if the House Judiciary Committee subpoenas witnesses, the committee then has to demonstrate that it has the jurisdiction, authority and "some relation, not absolute relation, to a legislative purpose.
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He said that Mr. Xi said that the age rule was not absolute, which was understood by officials to mean that he wanted Mr. Wang to be considered for the next term.
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But before Mr. Deng's public remarks, Mr. Xi had said behind closed doors that the age rule was "not absolute," said the former official who knows several members of the party leadership.
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But Justice Scalia did say that that right was not absolute, and that certain weapons like assault rifles could be banned, but the case still set the court's fundamentalist approach to gun rights.
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Of course, futures curves are not absolute predictors of price, but the fact that they expect the rally to fizzle suggests that iron ore miners should make hay while the sun is shining.
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China would undoubtedly take a severe economic hit if the talks fail and punitive tariffs go into effect, but the United States might be hit even harder in relative if not absolute terms.
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The power is not absolute -- immigrants can appeal their cases to the federal circuit courts, and at times those courts and, eventually, the Supreme Court will overrule immigration courts' or Justice Department decisions.
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As the Washington Post notes, First Amendment rights are not absolute, especially in public school districts where students have all kinds of limits placed on what they can do, wear, and say on campus.
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Backers of JASTA note that sovereign immunity is already not absolute, because lawsuits are allowed under some circumstances against countries that have been officially designated as "state sponsors of terrorism" by the American government.
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But legal researchers point to elements in state laws and Supreme Court decisions saying that the right to bear arms in public is not absolute and must stop short of inducing fear in others.
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But freedom of speech is not absolute, and in order to persuade the justices to abandon Abood, the dissident teachers will also need to undercut the economic and social benefits of the agency fee rule.
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"The evidence is not absolute but it certainly suggested that gender-based violence is one of the largest killers in Asia - if not the largest," Barron told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Washington.
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While freedom of expression is protected under Article 133 of the Dutch constitution, "this right is not absolute" Tom Herrenberg, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Open University in the Netherlands explained to me.
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In that case, however, the court also ruled that the privilege was not absolute and did not shield Richard Nixon's White House tape recordings from being released to the special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation.
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While the Court in that case recognized that an executive privilege is valid, it also held that such a privilege was not absolute and must be balanced against the interests of other branches of government.
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For that argument, he'll be stymied by the Nixon case precedents, which held that executive privilege is not absolute and can be overcome by a finding that the information is important and cannot be obtained elsewhere.
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It exposed a fault line between hardline patriots, who believe the national flag and anthem are beyond reproach, and citizens for whom patriotism is not absolute or unconditional but rather contingent on the country's treatment of its citizens.
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The court nonetheless ruled that a "generalized" assertion of the presidential communications privilege is not absolute and must be weighed against the need for the material by the other party seeking it — whether it be a court or Congress.
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The chart above, courtesy of Google Trends, shows in relative terms (not absolute) that we were much more curious for the latest on Markle — and, to a lesser extent, Prince Harry — than we were for the latest from Washington.
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"By my reading of the Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit law, I owe enormous deference, if not absolute deference, when it comes to the exercise of the impeachment power to how the House decides to conduct itself," Howell said Tuesday.
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A 2011 guideline from the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists and the British Society for Genetic Medicine offers clear leeway: "Where consent to release information has been refused… the rule of confidentiality is not absolute," it states.
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" The opinion goes on to cite the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from favoring one religion over another, and argues that although presidents are given broad authority to deny people entry to the country, "that power is not absolute.
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The Heller decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, solidified a Second Amendment right of the public to keep guns, but it specifically noted the right was not absolute, and Fletcher pointed out that Scalia cited restrictions on concealed weapons as a historical example.
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Of course, free speech is not absolute and can be punished when it incites illegal activity, constitutes a "true threat" that causes a person to fear imminent harm to his or her physical safety, or rises to the level of prohibited harassment.
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While that temperature, 70.9 degrees Fahrenheit, was 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above average, it was incorrect to describe it as "almost 5 percent above average" because Fahrenheit temperatures are not absolute quantities and therefore changes cannot be expressed consistently in terms of percent.
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While that temperature, 23622 degrees Fahrenheit, was 21 degrees Fahrenheit above average, it was incorrect to describe it as "almost 2800 percent above average" because Fahrenheit temperatures are not absolute quantities and therefore changes cannot be expressed consistently in terms of percent.
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But there is also not absolute proof that they don't feel pain, which is partly why Charlotte Gill, the chef and owner of Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor, Maine, recently started experimenting with ways to sedate the animals before cooking using weed.
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Relative, not absolute risk "The paper has good evidence that there is some risk of a heart attack for all NSAIDs and suggests that the risk starts immediately on starting them, but is only expressed in relative terms," said Evans, who was not involved in the research.
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The fact things had gone a little quiet on the crypto wars front, in the pre-Snowden era, was evidently not absolute victory but rather a creeping commercial workaround — as the NSA et al tapped into poorly secured but widely used consumer services to acquire the troves of public data they had sought.
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The decision was a landmark for the disabilities rights movement, but the rights it granted were not absolute: The decision of whether someone receiving state aid got the chance to live in the broader community had to be weighed "in view of the resources available to the state," as the Court put it.
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