Are there any rules / recommendation to using comparative "larger" instead of positive "large" when there is no comparison? What are they (recommendation of course)? Examples:
"I, __, take you, __, to be my lawfully wedded(husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer..."
"The main participants in this market are the larger international banks."(Wikipedia)
Large
half (also a necessarily fuzzy set). It's just a way of sweeping away details to present a large-scale trend. And also of ignoring inconvenient facts in the service of the trend.