Sentence examples for Being proportionate from inspiring English sources

The word "rational" is close to the word ratio, or being proportionate.

Instead, she said, "the focus is more about disparity" and whether government is being proportionate in punishment.

Ultimately, a good policy response should encourage the best and mitigate the worst of the gig economy while being proportionate – but that requires a good evidence base and as yet this does not exist.

The major branches of Christianity have traditionally affirmed that the moral order of the universe and the justice of God require a certain symmetry between eternal reward for the blessed and eternal punishment for the damned, with the degree and kinds of suffering in hell being proportionate to the sins.

Focusing on plant-derived foods, this paper proposes to recognize traditional exotic foods in current EU law as a food category sui generis with food safety evidence requirements being proportionate to the risks they may pose.

"His approach in resuming taxation had been drawn from Adam Smith, the sage of Kirkcaldy who set out a series of maxims in 1776 to the effect that taxes should offer certainty, convenience and efficiency while being proportionate to the ability to pay".

"Our resources are proportionate to smaller numbers".

But the measures have to be proportionate".

That would not be proportionate.

What are we to be proportionate about?

And the measure taken must be proportionate.