Sentence examples for a less proportionate from inspiring English sources

This system can generate a less proportionate outcome than first past the post (FPTP), so Nick Clegg should think long and hard before agreeing to prop up a failing, desperate government.

This system can generate a less proportionate outcome than first past the post, so Nick Clegg should think hard before agreeing to prop up a failing government and abandoning the Lib Dem commitment to STV.

That would be a departure for the Texas Legislature, where the power of the parties is highly variable and where it's normal for the out-of-power party to hold a more or less proportionate share of committee chairmanships and assignments.

The key to improving financial statements, then, is to obtain rapid sales growth with a less than proportionate increase in outlays.

The result was multiplied by 0.8 to reflect the likelihood that reduced work time results in a less than proportionate reduction in productivity [ 22].

This is less than one in absolute terms, which indicates that the cellular subscription is income-inelastic, i.e. a unit increase in per capita income elicits a less than proportionate increase in cellular phone subscription.

Since the elasticity coefficient for combined school enrolment was less than one (0.906), it implied that a one percentage point increase in school enrolment could lead to a less than proportionate increase in the Internet usage.

That makes the Senate five times less proportionate today than it was at the founding.

That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5percentt of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.

If the insurer cancels, a pro rata refund of premium must be returned to the insured; if the insured cancels, a less-than-proportionate return of a premium may be recovered from the insurer.

For a less agent will produce that movement in a less patient in an equal time, and the proportionate equivalent of that patient will be a finite quantity, since no proportion holds between finite and infinite.