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  • v  consider or treat as relative
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  • Angela Merkel in Africasia
    Freedom and tolerance, democracy and human rights form the foundation for existing side-by-side in dignity,Merkel told lawmakers in the German lower house of parliament. "One cannot relativise these values. They either exist fully or not...
  • Christian Schwarz-Schilling in The Guardian
    Haris Silajdzic, the Bosniak member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, was quick to remark that "this is not the first attempt to relativise and set equal blame", while Christian Schwarz-Schilling, a former high representative in Bosnia and...

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