Sentence examples for more proportionate use from inspiring English sources

A internal document from June, seen by Greenpeace and shared with the Guardian, says the agency will "make more proportionate use of our regulatory powers" and "retain our regulatory powers but will use them more proportionately and more efficiently, while increasingly operating through advice and partnership".

The ECJ added it had to be shown to be more proportionate and effective than using general taxation.

"A more proportionate alternative to banning khat and criminalising its use would have been an import ban or making it a supply offence only as applies, for example, to controlled anabolic steroids," said Martin Barnes from charity Drugscope.

Chris Morris, the BBC's Europe correspondent, says the Commission's draft proposals speak of a determination to implement "a more swift return system" and to "ensure a humane and dignified treatment of returnees, and a proportionate use of coercive measures".

"More proportionate" is the government's code for smaller.

No. Would I like it if the racial mix was more proportionate?

"We are concerned that the penalties imposed on jockeys should be more proportionate.

Under our reforms cases like this will still be brought, just at a more proportionate cost.

This might well include a more proportionate voting system which could be introduced for future elections.

He argued the new proposals were "more proportionate, specific and appropriate".

"If there is a little problem we can be more proportionate.