Sentence examples for just proportion from inspiring English sources

Payment of the outstanding debt having been made by the complainant county, the present suit was instituted in her behalf to compel the new counties to contribute their just proportion towards such indebtedness.

They should be (if we may use the expression) the whole body politic, with all it's property, rights, and priviledges, reduced to a smaller scale, every part being diminished in just proportion.

When this news reached Gibbons he informed Baker of his disappointment, stated that Catholics had not been given their just proportion, and alluded to the unfortunate timing of this decision when Catholics were manifesting so fine a spirit of loyalty.

Whatever it may be, I hope this book will allow my readers to appreciate the words of Sir Francis Younghusband when he wrote: "As we look at the Himalaya from such distance that we can see things whole and in their just proportion, the pain and disorder, squalor and strife, vanish into insignificance.

Astronomers tell us, the sun's motion is neither exactly parallel with that of the heavens in general, nor yet directly and diametrically opposite, but describing an oblique line, with insensible declination he steers his course in such a gentle, easy curve, as to dispense his light and influence, in his annual revolution, at several seasons in just proportions to the whole creation.

He said that the buildings "make a picturesque group of gabled Cotswold roofs", adding that "[t]heir design is simple and depends for its effects upon its just proportions.

"Just the proportion of the cuts and the inability to have any fat in the system".

The cycle overflow probability is just the proportion of cycles with occupied detector at end of green time phases.

Humanities degrees haven't actually declined in numbers, it's just the proportion of degrees granted is somewhat smaller.

Just since 1970 the proportion of American children who are overweight has doubled, a rate of increase that suggests the fattening of America has a specific history as well as a biology.

Just what proportion of the company's sales does the consumer electronics division account for?