Sentence examples for on a proportionate from inspiring English sources

On a proportionate basis, high-income people are less affected by these consumption taxes than low-income earners because they spend a smaller proportion of their income on consumer goods.

The courts also objected to flip taxes that were not imposed on a proportionate per-share basis, because the Business Corporation Law requires equal treatment of shareholders owning the same class of stock.

But with West Virginia's 29 delegates awarded on a proportionate basis, the small net gain for Sanders is unlikely to make much of a dent in the lead of 290 pledged delegates that the former secretary of state had going into the contest.

In contrast to his predecessor, whose call for Muslim support in the fight against terrorism was always coupled with insinuation of community culpability in that same threat, Gordon Brown has laid a greater emphasis on unity, a greater emphasis on these plots as being the acts of individuals and not communities, and a greater emphasis on a proportionate response.

Do theaters get charged the same on a proportionate basis or more?

Determination of sample size was based on a proportionate to size sampling formulae (Groebner and Shannon 2005).

Cameron had faced the prospect of a defeat, or a politically damaging narrow victory, when MPs vote on Thursday evening on a motion calling for a proportionate response.

They estimate that between 1995 and 2011, all immigrants to the UK - from outside the European Union and inside - were a net drain on public resources of between £114bn and £31bn, depending on whether a proportionate share of all public spending is allocated to them, or only a share of the public services whose costs increase as the population rises.

Luckily, we were repeatedly reassured that "any indirect adverse effect on women is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim", which made women doctors feel much better.

In addition reform is needed so that no one can be extradited for something that is not a crime in the UK (as can currently happen within the EU) and there should be a greater focus on whether extradition is a proportionate response.

Another viewpoint presented through our 3 DOF robotic fish model is that, on varying this DOF, a proportionate variation can be seen in the resulting motion.