Sentence examples for idea of proportion from inspiring English sources

By Hendrik Hertzberg January 8, 2011 Again, from The Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

As Hamilton wrote later, in Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

Again, from The Federalist No. 22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

Pictures and videos might give an idea of proportion and aesthetics, but more than any of my previous pieces, Blueprint can hardly be captured.

Label Ostwald Helgason has often played with ideas of proportion and transparency in collections and this season is no exception.

It would be interesting to have at least an idea of the proportion of ORFans in each isolate from the pangenome, in order to have an idea of their proportion.

"It is not yet possible to have an idea of the proportion of pregnant women, infected by Zika virus who will have babies with microcephaly," Dr Maierovitch said.

The discrimination of a prognostic model reflects its ability to distinguish between patient outcomes, and is closely related to the idea of the proportion of variance that the model explains.

It did, however, manage to convey the basic idea of proper proportions in an easily understandable way.

Giant satellites collecting sunlight and beaming the energy to Earth as microwaves are an idea of heroic proportions, but enough sunlight gets through the atmosphere to make them irrelevant.

The idea of geometric proportions is probably Pythagorean in origin; but the so-called golden section which divides a line at a point such that the smaller part is to the greater as the greater is to the whole is hardly an early Pythagorean contribution (see golden ratio).