Sentence examples for it proportionate from inspiring English sources
"I do think it's important that an apology too is an important thing and if you are talking about sacking someone, [you have to ask] is it proportionate.
This can be as big as you want, although be sure to make it proportionate to other objects if you're adding it to a scene.
Was it proportionate to offer so much money to (relatively) poorly-paid and young sportsmen?
Is it proportionate for the state to authorise itself to retain the DNA profile of someone who has never even been charged for a trivial offence, let alone had the chance to defend himself in a court of law?
But was it proportionate to show footage of jars containing preserved foetuses with birth defects in a hospital in Vietnam to make the point about the health risk of exposure to high levels of dioxins?
How is it legally proportionate, or fair, or just, that Gissendaner was executed and that Glossip and Edwards face execution, while the actual killers have each been sentenced to a lesser punishment?
Andy Holt, assistant chief constable for South Yorkshire, who heads the UK Football Policing Unit, says the tactic works: "It is hard-hitting, but it is proportionate – and it works.
This means that protection cannot cross a certain line; it must be proportionate.
But North Korea's erratic behavior raises the ante on any such move, no matter how "just" or "proportionate" it might appear.
Since cobalt is in solid solution in the pentlandite and improved recovery of the target sulphides was obtained, the increased recovery of cobalt is therefore normal and it is also proportionate.
