Use "proportionate" in a sentence

1. proportionate and measured way

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2. Try to consider, however, the need for a proportionate response to such an act of aggression – unless of course the Eastern Alliance has also been coerced

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3. It seems that our society‘s consummate pursuit of Material Things proportionate to its increasing indifference to Spiritual Things has sterilized our souls in a manner that has left many of us intellectually and morally barren and susceptible to whimsical notions of corporeal designs

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4. I would be the first to argue that any orderly, well governed society requires the cooperation of all its (productive) citizens and that each should properly contribute his or her own proportionate ―fair‖ share of the burden otherwise required for public services available to every citizen regardless of income

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5. As America‘s ―Affluent‖ Society becomes even more affluent so too will the ―poor‖ expect its proportionate share of the wealth

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6. proportionate to its intended purpose and that it is only excessive where its authority exceeds the limits delegated to some predetermined end

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7. ‖ In pursuing this line of reasoning, Power, is not absolute but a variation, rather, of proportionate means and ends

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8. This plan was adopted as a compromise between political factions favoring the Popular Vote (states with larger populations) and others preferring a proportionate voice in government or (states with smaller populations)

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9. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society

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10. City Planning, for example, was neither pretentious nor overpowering in its designs but simplistically proportionate in a stately manner

11. Quite the contrary! Our society has provided opportunities for many individuals or groups to move up the social and economic ladders proportionate to their (inherent) talents (and desires)

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12. To everyone, I say keep your chins up! What makes our system of government so unique, despite its historical trials and set-backs, is an inherent, self-correcting capacity proportionate to our nation‘s collective determination to return social and political balance to the equation

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13. I’m struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown

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14. However it’s proportionate and understandable

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15. Our walk in the Spirit is directly proportionate to

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16. eventually rewarded with the proportionate amount of happiness in

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17. harmonious, proportionate, healthy, not at all the “all brain and no body”

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18. This mighty host embraced twelve legions of seraphim and proportionate numbers of every order of universe intelligence

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19. The amount of residue is proportionate to the impurities added as bulk to help inflate the price

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20. Jesus always preached temperance and taught consistency -- proportionate adjustment of life problems

21. This monkey has the longest canines proportionate to its

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22. proportionate to the confidence with which it is given

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23. He wasn't very proportionate but he might consider posing for an artist,

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24. Make material reward proportionate with productive effort

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25. “But they’re all weight height proportionate,” Tama Orleans pointed out

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26. “And how you were probably trying to compensate for something else being less than proportionate

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27. The peculiarity here is that the divisions are not made in equal uniform intervals but proportionate to the decrease of spring force [18]

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28. but proportionate to the decrease of a spring force

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29. breast cancer risk in women is proportionate to the level of total fat consumed in the diet

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30. proportionate to their learning & thinking

31. inside proportionate to their speed and curvature so as to

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32. Power is proportionate to the fineness of the instrument through which it manifests

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33. The increase of percentages would be proportionate to the proficiency of the practitioner

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34. purpose, a punishment that is not proportionate to the sin, and in a god with

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35. has no purpose, a punishment that is not proportionate to the

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36. and in eternal punishment that has no purpose, a punishment that is not proportionate to

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37. that is not proportionate to the sin, and in a god with a nature that the basest of men

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38. eternal punishment that has no purpose, a punishment that is not proportionate to the sin,

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39. Most that believes all persons have an immortal soul dwelling in them also believes in an eternal Hell, and in eternal punishment that has no purpose, a punishment that is not proportionate to the sin, and in a god with a nature that the basest of men would not defend; eternal torment in Hell requires a god that is so dreadful that it make many reject him and his bible

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40. Sometimes the largest part of their structure is built up out of that of which there is the least proportionate supply

41. One valuable piece of advice from the experts is to use a proportionate sized cooking pot for best results

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42. The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,

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43. double duty appeared to me to produce a proportionate increase of affection

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44. Had the Storstad carried such a "pudding" proportionate to her size (say, two feet diameter in the thickest part) across her stern, and hung above the level of her hawse-pipes, there would have been an accident certainly, and some repair-work for the nearest ship-yard, but there would have been no loss of life to deplore

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45. She felt the accuracy with which he caught her, exactly at the right moment, and the exactly proportionate strength of his thrust, and she was afraid

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46. That very day the miners began their labors, with a vigor and alacrity proportionate to their long rest from fatigue and their hopes of ultimate success

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47. Their progress, in consequence, was proportionate; and long before the twilight gathered about them, they had made good many toilsome miles on their return

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48. The number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives is proportionate to the state’s population, which gives the large states more power in that body of Congress

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49. Paul Bowles once said that Tangier is a place where the past and present exist simultaneously in proportionate degree

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50. The range increase for its rather heavier antipersonnel round was a little less than that, but its projectiles were three times as heavy as the M95s, with a proportionate increase in bursting charge and shrapnel which gave its rounds more than twice the lethal radius

51. Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred's sky, which altered his view of the distance, and was the reason why his uncle Featherstone's present of money was of importance enough to make his color come and go, first with a too definite expectation, and afterwards with a proportionate disappointment

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52. With regard to Stone Court, since Bulstrode wished to retain his hold on the stock, and to have an arrangement by which he himself could, if he chose, resume his favorite recreation of superintendence, Caleb had advised him not to trust to a mere bailiff, but to let the land, stock, and implements yearly, and take a proportionate share of the proceeds

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53. His departure had been a proportionate disappointment, and had sadly increased her weariness of Middlemarch; but at first she had the alternative dream of pleasures in store from her intercourse with the family at Quallingham

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54. There was, alas, a difficulty about that: I would have thanked him with all my soul had I not had in a proportionate measure this conviction of the secret of my pupils

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55. Accumulation/Distribution is more finely calibrated than OBV because it credits bulls or bears with only a fraction of each day's volume, proportionate to the degree of their win for the day

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56. An interest in a private business may of course be sold for more or less than its proportionate asset value; but the book value is still invariably the starting point of the calculation, and the deal is finally made and viewed in terms of the premium or discount from book value involved

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57. A special endeavor should be made to establish a dividend rate proportionate at least to the liquidating value, in order that the stockholders should not suffer a loss of income through keeping the business alive

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58. From this there has developed the general notion that the rate of return which the investor should aim for is more or less proportionate to the degree of risk he is ready to run

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59. In the old days the investment character of a common stock was more or less the same as, or proportionate with, that of the enterprise itself, as measured quite well by its credit rating

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60. For example, in the event of a two-for-one stock split, the conversion price would be reduced by 50 percent, so that the holder of the notes or warrants would receive the same proportionate equity share on conversion or exercise as it would have before the split

61. Even worse, they generate high capital gains distributions proportionate to their turnover, since the primary reason for selling a stock is a large price increase, resulting in that stock’s “graduating” out of the index

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62. Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing

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63. One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offence never contemplated by government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty? If a man who has no property refuses but once to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison for a period unlimited by any law that I know, and determined only by the discretion of those who placed him there; but if he should steal ninety times nine shillings from the State, he is soon permitted to go at large again

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64. There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one

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65. "I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes

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66. Prohartchin was of a very humble grade in the service, and received a salary strictly proportionate to his official capacity, Ustinya Fyodorovna could not get more than five roubles a month from him for his lodging

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67. The bribed officials, from the prime ministers to the lowest scribes, form one unbroken chain of individuals, united by a common interest, supported by the labor of the people, fulfilling the will of the government with a submission proportionate to their gains, never hesitating to use any means in any department of business to promote the action of that governmental violence on which their well-being rests

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68. Wealth is power, and under whatsoever form it exists, its proprietor, whether he lives on this or the other side of the Atlantic, will have a proportionate influence

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69. If a proportionate representation had been given to the States according to their population, the law probably would not have passed

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70. And I add, that this protection must not be formal or fictitious, but that it must be proportionate to the greatness of those interests, and of a nature to give content to the States concerned in their protection

71. The fact will not be denied, that the price paid was proportionate to the extent of time for which the patentee held the exclusive right

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72. The marvels of Nature are in these regions so common that one becomes accustomed to behold, without emotion, trees whose tops exceed the height of 100 varas (290 English feet), with a proportionate thickness, beyond the belief of such as never saw them; and, supporting on their trunks a hundred different plants, they, individually, present rather the appearance of a small plantation than one great tree

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73. ’ Therefore, this Jonah must go and sell himself for as many good little papers as he can, and be distributed among the little boys and girls of some mission Sunday-school; and may the good resulting be proportionate to that accomplished by Jonah of old

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