Sentence examples for direct proportion from inspiring English sources

Theft was rising in direct proportion to unemployment.

The plays' sweeping power exists in direct proportion to the performers' extreme attention to detail.

And the gruesomeness of their deaths was in direct proportion to how loved those characters were.

There is no sliding scale of moral outrage, increasing in direct proportion to human suffering.

Trouble, in direct proportion to his talent, follows him round like a magnet.

Yet news has become steadily devalued in almost direct proportion to its proliferation.

The effect is vexing in direct proportion to the quality of the afflicted paintings.

The insensitivity of this intrusion is in direct proportion to the trauma that it causes.

The level of success coming his way seems in direct proportion to his fierce work ethic.

He did not test for PAH, which studies show varies in direct proportion to particulates.

Each year the rules became sillier, in direct proportion to the commissioner's happy descent into family life.