Sentence examples for amount in proportion from inspiring English sources

The department would give aid based on a category of severity, with each nation pledging a set amount in proportion to its GDP.

Officers should be liable for an amount in proportion to the size of their compensation that year.

Use an amount in proportion to the quantity of tea you've added (eg. 5 cups of water for 5 teaspoons of tea).

Had you bought not 100 shares of each but amounts in proportion to each company's capitalization ($5,648 and $34), you'd have a return determined almost entirely by GE's return.

The amount increases in proportion to the firm's assets and capital.

In a statement, the commission said it was pushing the government for an increase to the maximum £20,000 penalty available to it for a single offence "to an amount more in proportion with the spending and donations handled by large campaigners".

Thus while there was a significant difference by incentive amount in the proportion of people who skipped any questions, the actual number skipped in any condition was so low that there was no practical concern about the difference.

When you occasionally find a line that is very incorrect, bet an amount larger than your flat bet amount ($10) and in proportion to the approximate expected value of your bet.

If α = 1 we obtain the low-income gap (depth) which measures the amount of money (in proportion of the low-income measure) by which each household falls below the threshold.

Quotes from another journalist who said, "The human animal is said to have the greatest amount of leg in proportion to torso of any creature, including the ostrich".

One analyst said that he presided over "the most colossal amount of money, in proportion to the size of a country's economy, ever poured down the barrel of a gun".