1.   Otherwise he concentrated on a few vital issues and left his ministers relatively free to run their departments.

2.   The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter-insurgency and covert activity.

3.   The election proceeded in an atmosphere relatively free of violence, although the SLFP complained of fraud and of UNP manipulation of the government-controlled media.

4.   Although Smith lives in the high-risk business of riding thousand-pound race horses in tight quarters, he has been relatively free of serious injuries.

5.   And in a display of how violence plagues poor neighborhoods much more than rich ones, the more prosperous districts were relatively free of murders.

6.   And that enables me to eat them with a relatively free conscience.

7.   Army officials granted relatively free access to the post and to soldiers, allowing them to speak without an army spokesman present.

8.   At the same time, however, America remains relatively free to make military decisions on its own.

9.   A relatively free society is being handed over to a Communist dictatorship not quite a decade after the Berlin Wall fell.

10.   According to statistics compiled by PC Data, Inc., of Reston, Va., the best-selling games are relatively free of violence.