Sentence examples for due proportions from inspiring English sources

Similarly have other members their due proportions, by attention to which the ancient Painters and Sculptors obtained so much reputation.

From the mixture of elements in due proportions, there arise various forms of animal life.

Nevertheless, every one having brought in his due proportion, it was decreed that out of it a bowl of massy gold should be made, and sent to Delphi.

The Analects give examples of Confucius following this principle: "Though there might be a large quantity of meat, he would not allow what he took to exceed the due proportion for the rice".

The doubling of national sovereignties over the past decade has turned the General Assembly into a legislature for a globe made up very largely of rotten boroughs (a political unit with much less than its due proportion of inhabitants).

It is shown that estimation errors can be reduced only if spatial sampling intervals are in due proportion to spatial correlation length scales.

In 1896, the Democratic Party platform for the first time endorsed an income tax, "so that the burdens of taxations may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the Government".

I learned that you had to be careful in assigning books by young, celebrated authors to young, uncelebrated reviewers; the results were likely to be either starry-eyed hero-worship or (in the case of the more talented writers) a snide fury out of all due proportion to the subject at hand: snarkiness.

At their 1896 convention, Democrats endorsed such a tax as the best way to ensure that the "burdens of taxation" be "equally and impartially laid" so that "wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of Government". By 1908, both parties supported a national income tax.

Then there is due proportion or consonance.

14 However, when they made the width in due proportion, they found themselves quite unable to set a roof upon the building.