Here's the thing about tabbouleh salad: Most of the ones I've had invert my preferred proportion of bulgur to parsley.
"The media has, per usual, tried to blow my words out of proportion," Trump said on the Fox News Channel.
Everyone pays the same amount in income tax, and things like the sales and cigarette taxes disproportionately affect the poor - that $10 added to my grocery bill is a much bigger proportion of my income than of, say, Rahm Emanuel's or Gery Chico's.
After my most recent break-up I realised that I don't want another relationship until I start getting saggy and stop getting attention, therefore if I want to continue my horrible, delightful life spending a good little proportion of my salary on coke, I'd have to start getting it myself.
For a big proportion of my career (I'm currently finishing my sixth album), physical sales have been in decline while streaming plays have grown exponentially.
Fortunately, I'd been able to put aside a large proportion of my monthly pay and work right up until week 40 of my pregnancy, giving me a nice pot of savings to supplement my maternity allowance.
And that, I realize, reflects a shift in how I judge my career — in terms of a new metric for "success": not status or fortune, but rather what proportion of my efforts qualify as good work.
As a woman, I have always spent a large proportion of my day thinking about handbags.
In my youth a high proportion of the defendants in cases of armed robbery were described as company directors (often, for some reason, from Essex).
