Perhaps by U.N. lights, the Iranian Basij and rooftop snipers have hit on some eminently proportionate use of force dismaying to Ban, lethal to an untold number of Iranians, but not worth a denouncement as "outrageous, shocking and alarming".
Rules vary from state to state, with some being more strictly proportionate than others (some award bonus delegates to the winner of the primary, and some have Byzantine rules set up for who gets to be a delegate and how they'll vote, and some just unanimously award all delegates to the winner).
And in choosing their target, they also gave the lie to the idea that this was some kind of proportionate response to the oppression of the Palestinians.
As the crowd began to shout "Zindibad [Long live] Osama," the leader of Al Qaeda moved through the banquet hall dispensing white envelopes, some bulky, some thin, the thickness proportionate to the number of extended families under each leader's command.
By its terms, if any independent groups run ads supporting one candidate, the other may authorize the running of ads in some fashion that is proportionate.
In fact, he said, some condominiums even include proportionate shares of common areas like lobbies, laundry rooms and storage rooms in individual apartment-size measurements.
On this particular demonstration there was a discernible escalation of force deployed by police, which was not commensurate or proportionate to some small pockets of hostile reaction within the crowd.
It found that the checklist known as Dash (domestic abuse, stalking and harassment and honour-based violence) "may not be appropriate or proportionate" for some incidents of domestic abuse.
Mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, and the southern Andes, as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the largest proportionate glacial losses.
