The fact that you are trying to relativize planned execution of over eight thousand innocent civilians, deny international law and dispute rulings by international courts and become a promotor of genocide denial as the final stage of its complete execution is astonishing," emphasized Zvizdic.

In Amerindian societies, the explanation of a health need is linked to social and cultural rules, so it is important to relativize a vision on healthcare (4,25).

Heterodox theologians are precisely those who "relativize" orthodoxy (as opposed to explicitly rejecting it as heretical theologians would) and thus "open the door" for nonorthodox readings of Scripture.

The older view was that such accounts should not be included in a consideration of the history of the war and its aftermath because this would allow apologists to relativize the crimes committed by Germans.

Next, the essays describe the necessity of relativizing both traditions; Nehal Bhuta articulates this when he asserts, "Rather than take one set of principles as the universal norms ..., we [must] relativize both set of values by trying to grasp their meaning and social significance within specific historical formulations of politics, place, and power" (125).

Those parts of the article that refer to measures the Cuban government has taken or that relativize the critique he is making are simply whited out:

Please do not misunderstand, and think that I intend to relativize or justify the issue of comfort women for former Japanese soldiers.

Quine avoids having to eternalize observation sentences or relativize them to places and times.

Furthermore, in a surprising tumaround of standard characterizations of pluralist Christian theology, Sonnemans suggests that "those who relativize, denounce, or disavow traditional Christian truth-claims, simultaneously relativize the claim that all humans can reach salvation"; in his view, such relativizing constitutes a "betrayal" of humans living and dead (p.