1.   In the first years after independence, relative prosperity masked the difficulty.

2.   Under his rule, the city-state became a center of international trade and relative prosperity in Asia.

3.   As is the case in most of the country in this election year, these have been times of relative prosperity for Nebraska.

4.   Bechet, whose parents were land-owning Creoles, enjoyed a childhood of relative bourgeois prosperity.

5.   A place enjoying relative prosperity yet still festering with resentments, misunderstanding and wariness.

6.   All this has made Joliet, like many other once-ailing communities that have brought in casinos, a place of relative prosperity.

7.   But relative prosperity may be playing a role, too.

8.   But U.S. policy-makers are frustrated by its stubbornness during a period of relative prosperity abroad.

9.   Despite her relative prosperity, Susan has not become a consumer.

10.   Dole is an imitator at a time of relative economic prosperity, echoing a concept the country now knows quadrupled the national debt.