Sentence examples for payments in proportion to from inspiring English sources

The Romanian reform of 1864 freed the serfs and distributed both the land and the redemption payments in proportion to the number of cows or oxen each peasant had.

Apple and Microsoft have not said how much they paid or how ownership of the patents will be split – though the most likely scenario is that if the patents are licensed then the companies will receive payments in proportion to their contributions.

But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him.

On this system, a graduated scale of payments is provided in proportion to an achieved benchmark of a quality of care indicator.

The underlying problems were the growing shortage of skilled workers, a wrecked rural culture, the payment of workers in proportion to the quantity rather than the quality of their work, too large farm machinery for the small collective farms and the roadless countryside.

(B) Begins to pass through without delay all payments it receives on its asset obligations (less reasonable allowances for expenses) as principal payments on its liability obligations in proportion to the adjusted issue prices of the liability obligations.

The amount of such payments, the report says, should increase in proportion to the duration of a marriage and the disparity in the spouses' incomes at the time of divorce -- two factors that can be measured objectively.

If those payments were made by debtor states in proportion to their cumulative deficits, the debts of states like New Mexico and Mississippi would rise to over 500% of GDP.Debtor states enjoy enormous fiscal transfers, backed by taxes raised elsewhere and bonds the whole union must repay.

It was an election year in Greece, after all, and the country was already struggling to keep up the payments on its debt, which is higher in proportion to economic output than in any other nation in the European Union.

Municipal courts in the majority of Colorado's largest cities order the arrest of persons who miss payments on court-ordered fines, with most of them specifying jail time in proportion to the size of the unpaid debt.

Smith said that the demand for labour could not increase except in proportion to the increase of the funds destined for the payment of wages.