Hitting stockpiles of chemical weapons could appear more proportionate but that would bring with it the risk of dispersing neurotoxins over a wide area, potentially causing even more harm than Wednesday's gas attack.
Damages claims of this magnitude do not appear to be necessary or proportionate.
But North Korea's erratic behavior raises the ante on any such move, no matter how "just" or "proportionate" it might appear.
We observed racial differences in proportionate incidence of RCC subtypes, which appear to be increasing over time; this novel finding motivates further etiologic, clinical, molecular, and genetic studies.
For purposes of determining proportionate share, a married couple whose names appear on the lease would be counted as one tenant, and immediate family members of the tenant, along with dependent children of any roommate, would not be counted.
And the word "proportionate" now appears twice, in order to make explicit on the face of the bill that the European directive has such a requirement (in plain language, you must not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut) which the courts are in any case required to observe.
Concerning the diplomatic implications, the key countries involved in the North Korean nuclear issue -- the U.S., South Korea, China and Japan -- were all swift to condemn the latest test, while Russia's call for a "proportionate response" appeared more equivocal.
After 30 the proportionate change appears to have reached an asymptote.
The driving force of mutation bias for rfc2 -1 and stn1 -13 appears to be a proportionate increase in transition frequency, while the spectrum of pol1 -ts is more complex (e.g., double the number of T to A transversions).
The Cmax, AUC0– t and AUC0 ∞ values increased with increasing dose, and over the dose range 3.6 14 mg m−2, these increases appeared to be approximately proportionate to the dose increment.
