Sentence examples for could be commensurate from inspiring English sources

No trial was required to prove Saddam's guilt; no punishment could be commensurate to his offenses.

It has paid dearly for its entry ticket, but the rewards could be commensurate.

Only if this truth were at stake could meaning be commensurate with the toll of deaths at Gettysburg.

But it takes nothing away from his achievements — crucially, articulating for the Civil War a significance that could outlast and be commensurate with its awfulness — that he generally knew what he was doing and coolly calculated how to do it.

In some cases, restitution could be considered commensurate to prison time — and courts could recommend shorter sentences for child-pornography collectors who agree to compensate victims based on their ability to pay.

Thus while by 2050 we might congratulate ourselves for successfully eliminating some key parasitic and neglected tropical diseases such as dracunculiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and human African trypanosomiasis, there could be a commensurate rise in other parasitic diseases based on the scenarios highlighted above.

The first is effectiveness: the scale of the response must be commensurate with the challenge.

Humankind can rally quickly, but leadership, engagement and resources need to be commensurate to the challenge.

For many, this broke a fundamental rule of capitalism – that reward should be commensurate with risk.

And the action against them therefore needed to be commensurate – concomitant in Cyril Ramaphosa's parlance.

So the government determined that payments ought to be commensurate with the amount of work involved.