Sentence examples for be proportional from inspiring English sources
adjective
At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first.
"These responses have to be proportional.
Force must be proportional to the circumstances.
Morrison said responses to banking scandals needed to be proportional.
And their terms would be: Proportional representation o muerte!
However, he said it had to be proportional.
It said punitive damages should be proportional to damages awarded for compensation.
Beccaria thought that punishment should be proportional to the crime and preventive, not retributive.
The battle cry for those interested in equality must be proportional representation (PR).
Its violence must be proportional to the injury we have suffered.
Any retaliation, they said, must be proportional and aimed at the guilty.
He said the amount of force officers use should be proportional to the threat posed.
