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1. a sense of proportion to the importance of certain matters in life
2. perused the by now predictable menu his heart sank in converse proportion to the
3. relationship that grows in direct proportion to the amount of time we
4. Something flared up too bright and too close and between the gaps in his helmet visor not covered with the boneless alien appendages, he saw Wambach wielding a plasma cutter, swinging the clumsy, fat, meter-long cylinder like the hilt of a ridiculously out of proportion sword
5. "What proportion of the population would we consider a successful conversion?" Khalid asked
6. The slights and disappointments of my childhood grew out of all proportion to their actual significance
7. He was capable of constructing it, but passing the suffering on to Jaseem was all out of proportion to the casual callousness that Jaseem had committed
8. As the boy sat at table and ordered half a litre of the house red while he perused the by now predictable menu his heart sank in converse proportion to the rising pulse in the veins of the aforementioned lady
9. Is everything else in proportion?"
10. The body uses this vitamin best in conjunction with vitamin D in the proportion of 7-1
11. The same proportion were the tiny outrigger kayaks, the same proportion were the nylon spinnakers of the lakerunners
12. The look she gave him was all out of proportion to telling her his birth year unless it was the same as hers
13. Her body was soft, smooth, and perfectly shaped, clothed in a one-piece, skin-tight jersey-like outfit with a low, low as in under, cut top that made a very fine presentation of very fine features, just the right shape between curve and point, voluptuous but not sloppy or out of proportion
14. He could have no interest to employ them, unless he expected from the sale of their work something more than what was sufficient to replace his stock to him ; and he could have no interest to employ a great stock rather than a small one, unless his profits were to bear some proportion to the extent of his stock
15. They are, however, altogether different, are regulated by quite different principles, and bear no proportion to the quantity, the hardship, or the ingenuity of this supposed labour of inspection and direction
16. They are regulated altogether by the value of the stock employed, and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock
17. Though in settling them some regard is had commonly, not only to his labour and skill, but to the trust which is reposed in him, yet they never bear any regular proportion to the capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital, though he is thus discharged of almost all labour, still expects that his profit should bear a regular proportion to his capital
18. As any particular commodity comes to be more manufactured, that part of the price which resolves itself into wages and profit, comes to be greater in proportion to that which resolves itself into rent
19. The capital which employs the weavers, for example, must be greater than that which employs the spinners; because it not only replaces that capital with its profits, but pays, besides, the wages of the weavers : and the profits must always bear some proportion to the capital
20. The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the rent, labour, and profit, which must be paid in order to bring it thither
21. A rent which consists either in a certain proportion, or in a certain quantity, of the rude produce, is no doubt affected in its yearly value by all the occasional and temporary fluctuations in the market price of that rude produce; but it is seldom affected by them in its yearly rate
22. But as they are repeated upon every part of his stock, and as their whole amount bears, upon that account, a regular proportion to it, they are commonly considered as extraordinary profits of stock
23. The rent of the land which affords such singular and esteemed productions, like the rent of some vineyards in France of a peculiarly happy soil and situation, bears no regular proportion to the rent of other equally fertile and equally well cultivated land in its neighbourhood
24. The wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market, on the contrary, are seldom out of their natural proportion to those of the other employments of labour and stock in their neighbourhood
25. Though pecuniary wages and profit are very different in the different employments of labour and stock ; yet a certain proportion seems commonly to take place between both the pecuniary wages in all the different employments of labour, and the pecuniary profits in all the different employments of stock
26. This proportion, it will appear hereafter, depends partly upon the nature of the different employments, and partly upon the different laws and policy of the society in which they are carried on
27. But though in many respects dependent upon the laws and policy, this proportion seems to be little affected by the riches or poverty of that society, by its advancing, stationary, or declining condition, but to remain the same, or very nearly the same, in all those different states
28. I shall, in the third place, endeavour to explain all the different circumstances which regulate this proportion
29. Thus far at least seems certain, that, in order to bring up a family, the labour of the husband and wife together must, even in the lowest species of common labour, be able to earn something more than what is precisely necessary for their own maintenance; but in what proportion, whether in that above-mentioned, or many other, I shall not take upon me to determine
30. The demand for those who live by wages, it is evident, cannot increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined to the payment of wages
31. mother-country, its real price, the real command of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it conveys to the labourer, must be higher in a still greater proportion
32. But English corn must be sold dearer in Scotland, the country to which it is brought, than in England, the country from which it comes; and in proportion to its quality it cannot be sold dearer in Scotland than the Scotch corn that comes to the same market in competition with it
33. The quality of grain depends chiefly upon the quantity of flour or meal which it yields at the mill ; and, in this respect, English grain is so much superior to the Scotch, that though often dearer in appearance, or in proportion to the measure of its bulk, it is generally cheaper in reality, or in proportion to its quality, or even to the measure of its weight
34. The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased perhaps in a still greater proportion than its money price
35. Though their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fashion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity
36. It deserves to be remarked, too, that it necessarily does this as nearly as possible in the proportion which the demand for labour requires
37. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives
38. Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and dear years to diminish it
39. The province of Holland, on the other hand, in proportion to the extent of its territory and the number of its people, is a richer country than England
40. A new colony must always, for some time, be more understocked in proportion to the extent of its territory, and more underpeopled in proportion to the extent of its stock, than the greater part of other countries
41. The interest which the borrower can afford to pay is in proportion to the clear profit only
42. The proportion which the usual market rate of interest ought to bear to the ordinary rate of clear profit, necessarily varies as profit rises or falls
43. But the proportion between interest and clear profit might not be the same in countries where the ordinary rate of profit was either a good deal lower, or a good deal higher
44. employments, that of public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better
45. labour, in proportion to its quantity, comes always too cheap to market, to afford any thing but
46. will find that their annual gains bear but a very small proportion to their annual expense, even
47. it does not, however, seem to rise in proportion to it, or so as to
48. seem to rise in proportion to it
49. extended in proportion to the amount of both ; and the sum or amount of his profits is in
50. proportion to the extent of his trade, and his annual accumulation in proportion to the amount
1. back, a well proportioned man, with a smile that could cut chiffon in mid-air float
2. at cute cuts and proportioned pleats on darling twelves,
3. The television gardener lived with his lovely wife on his modest but beautifully proportioned estate in the country, when filming and international awards ceremonies permitted
4. In the middle of the room on an elegantly proportioned drop leaf table her great-aunt had set a Royal Worcester tea service, with one of those lacy three tiered cake stands at the centre of the display
5. The old girl eventually retired, wobbling slightly as she went, and Annie returned to her own thinly proportioned bed on a promise to call round the next morning for coffee
6. She was exquisite - small and dainty, but well proportioned in all the right areas
7. returned to her own thinly proportioned bed on a promise to call
8. An appropriately proportioned matching table stood between them holding a single oil lamp
9. For students who are interested in medical stuff, the bodies of Altreenan people are without any ailment and are perfectly proportioned
10. His daily subsistence would be proportioned to his daily necessities
11. Inside it her shape was trim and smooth and perfectly proportioned
12. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take, but to what the farmer can afford to give
13. compensated for it by being generously proportioned in
14. The sober and frugal debtors of private persons, on the contrary, would be more likely to employ the money borrowed in sober undertakings which were proportioned to their capitals, and which, though they might have less of the grand and the marvellous, would have more of the solid and the profitable ; which would repay with a large profit whatever had been laid out upon them, and which would thus afford a fund capable of maintaining a much greater quantity of labour than that which had been employed about them
15. It is the interest of the people that their daily, weekly, and monthly consumption should be proportioned as exactly as possible to the supply of the season
16. In her present condition, Great Britain resembles one of those unwholesome bodies in which some of the vital parts are overgrown, and which, upon that account, are liable to many dangerous disorders, scarce incident to those in which all the parts are more properly proportioned
17. and that would be the wood cut-out that has the amply proportioned lady painted on it
18. the amply proportioned lady who is wearing a blueberry-colored skirt, a banana-colored blouse, and a cherry red bandana with white polka-dots
19. Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them
20. What those lectures shall be, must still depend upon the diligence of the teacher ; and that diligence is likely to be proportioned to the motives which he has for exerting it
21. The proper performance of every service seems to require, that its pay or recompence should be, as exactly as possible, proportioned to the nature of the service
22. Taxes which are proportioned, not in the Rent, but to the Produce of Land
23. As through the greater part of Europe, the church, so in many different countries of Asia, the state, is principally supported by a land tax, proportioned not to the rent, but to the produce of the land
24. The tax upon stock, imposed by the land tax bill in England, though it is proportioned to the capital, is not intended to diminish or, take away any part of that capital
25. It is meant only to be a tax upon the interest of money, proportioned to that upon the rent of land; so that when the latter is at four shillings in the pound, the former may be at four shillings in the pound too
26. A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer
27. When it is not so proportioned, but is the same upon all dealers, though in this case, too, it is finally paid by the consumer, yet it favours the great, and occasions some oppression to the small dealer
28. The tax of five shillings a-week upon every hackney coach, and that of ten shillings a-year upon every hackney chair, so far as it is advanced by the different keepers of such coaches and chairs, is exactly enough proportioned to the extent of their respective dealings
29. The personal taille, as it is intended to be proportioned to the profits of a certain class of people, which can only be guessed at, is necessarily both arbitrary and unequal
30. Such transactions may be taxed indirectly, by means either of stamp duties, or of duties upon registration; and those duties either may, or may not, be proportioned to the value of the subject which is transferred
31. } there are both stamp duties and duties upon registration ; which in some cases are, and in some are not, proportioned to the value of the property transferred
32. All testaments must be written upon stamped paper, of which the price is proportioned to the property disposed of ; so that there are stamps which cost from three pence or three stivers a-sheet, to three hundred florins, equal to about twenty-seven pounds ten shillings of our money
33. Such taxes, even when they are proportioned to the value of the property transferred, are still unequal; the frequency of transference not being always equal in property of equal value
34. When they are not proportioned to this value, which is the case with the greater part of the stamp duties and duties of registration, they are still more so
35. If any province complains of being assessed too high, it may, in the assessment of next year, obtain an abatement proportioned to the overcharge of the year before ; but it must pay in the mean time
36. First, the tax would be more unequal, or not so well proportioned to the expense and consumption of the different contributors, as in the way in which it is commonly imposed
37. The produce of every part of the country must be proportioned to the consumption of the neighbourhood
38. administration, the farmer must always draw from the produce of the tax a certain profit, proportioned at least to the advance which he makes, to the risk which he runs, to the trouble which he is at, and to the knowledge and skill which it requires to manage so very complicated a concern
39. Great indulgence would for some time be due to those provinces of the empire which were thus subjected to burdens to which they had not before been accustomed; and even when the same taxes came to be levied everywhere as exactly as possible, they would not everywhere produce a revenue proportioned to the numbers of the people
40. The wooden swords were proportioned for their height, but were in all other ways identical to the practice swords used by the men upstairs
41. We arrived at Jesse’s pad the following day; of course this one was a reasonably proportioned house, okay maybe proportioned considering Jesse’s standards
42. His height was estimated to be nine feet and yet he appeared perfectly proportioned
43. She stripped off revealing her beautifully proportioned body and turned to face him
44. In his early thirties, he was about twenty centimetres taller than his visitors, perfectly proportioned, flawless skin like burnished blue-black ebony, wearing a short sleeveless tunic of a coarse material that barely reached mid thigh
45. The front room, to the left of the entrance, was both large and elegantly proportioned
46. race, who is the tallest of all the Adepts, being six feet eight inches in height, and perfectly proportioned
47. The water running from her hair drew his eyes to her backside, which was beautifully proportioned
48. We were expecting someone middle-aged, not a slim, perfectly proportioned twenty-four year-old with olive complexion, heavy five-o’clock shadow, black eyes, close-cropped black hair, wearing an elegant cream linen suit
49. proportioned, and covered in a smooth white coat and brown or
50. Together, the respective costs of equity and debt are proportioned by their relative weights
1. In courts which consisted of a considerable number of judges, by proportioning the share of each judge to the number of hours and days which he had employed in examining the process, either in the court, or in a committee, by order of the court, those fees might give some encouragement to the diligence of each particular judge
2. Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant
3. " Proportioning the means used to the products reaped, we look forward with hope, expecting a future that shall correspond with the promises of God
1. scores had reached epidemic proportions
2. “The devastation in Agrea was of mammoth proportions,” Briz
3. The idle everywhere consume a great part of it; and, according to the different proportions in which it is annually divided between those two different orders of people, its ordinary or average value must either annually increase or diminish, or continue the same from one year to another
4. Before the discovery of the mines of America, the value of fine gold to fine silver was regulated in the different mines of Europe, between the proportions of one to ten and one to twelve ; that is, an ounce of fine gold was supposed to be worth from ten to twelve ounces of fine silver
5. About the middle of the last century, it came to be regulated, between the proportions of one to fourteen and one to fifteen; that is, an ounce of fine gold came to be supposed worth between fourteen and fifteen ounces of fine silver
6. When he was but an infant, Jakkar suffered a malady that twisted his body into wicked, unhuman proportions
7. His spine was shaped into an S, one leg failed to grow since infancy, while the other thickened and stretched beyond human proportions every passing year
8. Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them
9. A certain quantity of very valuable materials, gold and silver, and of very curious labour, instead of augmenting the stock reserved for immediate consumption, the subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements of individuals, is employed in supporting that great but expensive instrument of commerce, by means of which every individual in the society has his subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements, regularly distributed to him in their proper proportions
10. He sensed a failure of catastrophic proportions
11. however, employed in each of those four different ways, will immediately put into motion very different quantities of productive labour ; and augment, too, in very different proportions, the value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the society to which they belong
12. His face was very ugly, stretched to titanic proportions, and there was only the pit of an old injury where one of his eyes should have been
13. It is thus that the same capital will in any country put into motion a greater or smaller quantity of productive labour, and add a greater or smaller value to the annual produce of its land and labour, according to the different proportions in which it is employed in agriculture, manufactures, and wholesale trade
14. It would be a scandal of huge proportions
15. The proportions between the bank price, the mint price, and the market price of gold bullion, are nearly the same
16. Their employer, as he advances to them the stock of materials, tools, and wages, necessary for their employment, so he advances to himself what is necessary for his own maintenance; and this maintenance he generally proportions to the profit which he expects to make by the price of their work
17. Where the fees of court are precisely regulated and ascertained where they are paid all at once, at a certain period of every process, into the hands of a cashier or receiver, to be by him distributed in certain known proportions among the different judges after the process is decided and not till it is decided ; there seems to be no more danger of corruption than when such fees are prohibited altogether
18. The outburst at this statement would have gone to astronomical proportions had Mars not chosen that moment to begin laughing out loud, shocking the hall to silence
19. My digital measure is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre and those proportions are totally precise
20. By noon the whole frontal attack had stalled once more and with no ground taken hardly the whole thing like the past two days was an absolute shambles a cock up of massive proportions
21. They really are a curse of biblical proportions and their constant buzzing is deafening when they are present in such numbers
22. The produce of the latter may, at different times, bear very different proportions to that value
23. Now that his surroundings were to normal proportions he should be able to get through that door
24. Zolla had never before set eyes on a vessel of such gargantuan proportions
25. The palatial residence destroyed in the last campaign has been replaced by a heterogeneous collection of well-built wattle huts of enormous proportions and barn-like appearance
26. This cleansing has reduced the death-rate to regular proportions, yellow fever during the past summer has been unprecedentedly scarce, and when the projected canal is cut, to flush out the vast cesspool, Havana harbour, the city, quaint and beautiful despite the dirt, will become a Mecca for winter tourists
27. This is especially true in highly congested (urban) areas where commuter travel has assumed nightmarish proportions
28. It has reduced fat ingredients to take away some the guilt associated with a dessert of such proportions
29. “Of course, they have grown to such proportions, because they have plenty to eat
30. The eels eat them and, thus, grow to such gigantic proportions
31. "Oh, shit," was all I could think of to say as I sat frozen to my seat, staring uncomprehendingly at the empty space that up until a few seconds ago had been filled by the ample proportions of Detective Inspector Grunt
32. Clearly, the later, a man of slight proportions, wearing glasses and a vest with many pockets was confused and uncomfortable as they approached – that was a good sign, wasn’t it? Gawking at the approaching women, he pulled himself to his feet in the narrow space between chair and table
33. The worry she’d assigned to recruiting Caroline hardly seemed worth losing a day over, a feeling that was strongly reinforced when she awoke the next morning with a hangover of enormous proportions and an airplane to catch, but the many pieces were in place and maybe in time to prevent a shortage of product
34. He let Edward explain his problem, then threw a price out that would be considered high in New York: for Costa Rica, it was a number of astronomical proportions
35. There was something about the way she clenched and opened her fists continuously that made me believe that just a glimpse of her mind right at that time would have felt like a floating balloon does in a shitstorm of monumental proportions
36. He instantly dropped the beer can he had strapped on his back, threw away the dick-shaped carrot and T-string, and rushed over to me, skunk still in hand, while Novorski erupted into an evil uproar of demonic proportions that frankly sounded like someone facing severe stomach trouble
37. The most important piece of news, without which the telling of the story would have become pointless and would have disappeared from the lexicon of storytelling, was this: that there had been a flood of monumental proportions at some time in the ancient past of the original storytellers
38. Of course all these prospective dates are at the least speculative, all that we can be relatively assured of by the many accounts, two of which I have used here, is that a flood of monumental proportions occurred somewhere north of the Mesopotamian landscape and probably sometime within the early organization of the farming communities that eventually were to attain the complexity of small city-states
39. His apparent need to reduce to physical proportions a more than physical Being seems to have taken on the aspect of addiction
40. Mother Earth will unleash the negative energy that the global corporations have created through their overwhelming voracity; that karmic retribution will indeed incite a war of apocalyptic proportions between her and mankind
41. Apparently older boys had learnt the art of stretching break times to infinite proportions to allow themselves time for other pursuits, sadly for God Boy this skill was eons away, he had to lump it for
42. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of Heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they listened to Him; And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light:
43. proportions, and we'd gone out a few times before that New Year’s Eve, when he'd
44. Our ancestors knew so much more than us, and they left us elaborate monuments of grand proportions so that we would not forget about our obligation to truth
45. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of Heaven and I saw how He called them all by their names and they listened to Him; And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light:
46. hurt that he had felt for so many years diminished to bearable proportions
47. At first glance they appeared identical, with the size and the long and light proportions of fine sprinting horses
48. Most are capable of becoming wizards, elves moreso than unicorns, and elves produce the highest proportions of wizards of serious power
49. Youssaf was left to wonder aloud, “Can he do it one more time? I’ve seen him rise to one tough challenge after another in the short time that I’ve known him, but can he really step up to one of such immense proportions? This is by far the biggest operation that he’s ever tackled, including the river, the plagues, the labor camp, starvation, and the trek that brought us all here
50. He now seemed to have risen to larger-than-life proportions at the apex of the hill upon which he stood