Sentence examples for basis of the proportion from inspiring English sources

Under a complex new voting system that awards most seats on the basis of the proportion of the vote the party receives, New Democracy was expected to win at least 153 seats in the 300-seat Parliament.

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia possess federal systems that mirror the U.S. model of equal representation for each subnational government in the upper chamber (since the mid-1990s one-fourth of Mexican senators have been elected in a single national district on the basis of the proportion of votes their political parties receive).

The first step of this analysis was to select the plots to be included on the basis of the proportion of Scots pine.

For instance, the fraction of part-time workers is computed on the basis of the proportion of hours worked by employees working less than 30 h per week over the total amount of hours worked with the firm.

Diversity descriptors were positively and significantly correlated with habitat diversity, measured on the basis of the proportion of the different soil-use types present at each land-use unit.

Acceptability was assessed on the basis of the proportion of parents answering the first IOFS questionnaire.

Interviewers were instructed to apportion their samples across the SLAs on the basis of the proportions of migrants in each of the strata.

This study compared hospitals on the basis of the proportions of CS deliveries, with the implicit assumption that lower rates reflect a more appropriate practice.

The concentration (in milligrams per milliliter) of anti-CCP2 IgG was then calculated on the basis of this proportion (percentage) in relation to the concentration (in milligrams per milliliter) of total IgG in plasma and SF.

Once such a correction was performed on the basis of the relative proportion of Amerindian, European and African ancestries, there emerged a higher level of uniformity than expected.

On the basis of the increased proportion of euchromatin in P1-deficient myotubes, one may have expected to find a general transcriptional activation in these cells.