Sentence examples for needed to be proportionate from inspiring English sources

In an interview with the Guardian and five other European newspapers, Merkel argued that while the fight against terrorism was essential, the methods used needed to be proportionate.

Hazel Cheeseman, at the charity Action on Smoking and Health, said there was no evidence of any harm to bystanders and warned regulation needed to be proportionate.

The preemptive action needs to be proportionate in scope and scale with the perceived threat.

The amounts would need to be proportionate – we mustn't penalise legitimate visa applicants who will struggle to get hold of the money.

While governments have the right to control information flow during a state of emergency, she added, "it needs to be proportionate.

The Human Rights Council interprets derogation measures as measures that must be limited "to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation". In other words, such measures need to be proportionate.

While it stresses that any approach needs to be "proportionate to the aim of achieving coexistence", very few studies have actually attempted to assess whether the proposed spatial ex ante coexistence regulations (SEACERs) satisfy this proportionality condition.

Of course you need to be proportionate, of course you need to be careful, of course you don't want to create unintended consequences where the taxpayer ends up footing more of the bill or we create more social problems or problems of law and order".

If you breach such a policy by using work computers for private reasons, which includes the use of Facebook and Twitter, this may amount to a disciplinary matter, and even gross misconduct, although any such action by an employer would need to be proportionate and consistently applied.

"The fees need to be proportionate for the way that the ground transportation is being used," Fang said, adding that rental car companies need parking lots and shuttles and other infrastructure at airports.

The signals need to be proportionate to the spiked quantities.