The relative status of the speakers, or the role which one of them is playing, are also important.

Schools should help diligent students move above their parents' relative status.

She looked up, her eyes burning, their relative status momentarily forgotten.

In 1939 the relative status of battleship and carrier were controversial.

He hoped the tacit admission of the change in their relative status would start the meeting off on the right foot.

It needed nothing more than that to give Ethan a silent appreciation of their relative status.

By population groups, the only major job shift last month was in the relative status of men and women, not counting teen-agers.

Women's relative status, however, varied from one ethnic group to another.

Most people surveyed chose the $125,000 - a higher relative status - even though they would be worse off in absolute terms.

He did not rise, immediately establishing their relative status.