Sentence examples for commensurate share from inspiring English sources

That is, he contended that anyone who benefits greatly from the presence of some institution is morally required to bear a commensurate share of the burden of sustaining that institution's existence.

Given the city's one-third representation on the university system's board of trustees, the governor and his aides said, it made even more sense for the city to pay a commensurate share of the costs.

Why in the world shouldn't workers take home a commensurate share of the rewards their work produces?

The region's service sector is well developed, accounting for a large share of the gross domestic product and employing a commensurate portion of the workforce.

It is difficult to argue that such shares, to say nothing of major changes in the distribution of income like those recorded in recent years, have anything to do with a commensurate contribution that might merit extraordinary compensation.

But at the United Nations, the bid for new American assessments is viewed as the spectacle of the world's richest country seeking to avoid paying assessments commensurate with its share of world economic output.

By contrast, Luxembourg does not appear to pay a share commensurate with its wealth.Not all will agree with these figures, which are based on calculations by the European Commission.

Let us target 2050 as the year by which we will have reduced America's "civic footprint" to a size commensurate with our share of the planet's total population.

They become so high as to defy the possibility of sufficient profits ever being generated to pay dividends in any way commensurate with the share price.

Thus the poem poses the question, whether its own poetic spell is of the same order as that spell which it discovers in the reading of Chapman's Homer and in the two commensurate moments which share the simile.

A more plausible explanation might be that, as emerging economies develop and their educational and living standards rise, they participate more prominently in innovation and have a global economic share more commensurate to their size.