Sentence examples for proportion as it from inspiring English sources

It's no coincidence that artistic production, and also artistic appreciation, is meaningful in proportion as it demands (and rewards) our time.

The demand, in the form of more people, has certainly increased, with California's population growing out of all proportion, as it is fed by uncontrolled immigration, both legal and illegal.

This strange and nasty habit... became hateful to me when, after the Revolution and in proportion as it was betrayed, I watched all sorts of affected tastes and sentimental foolishness taking the place of the noblest passions...

And the premise of this profession-that the movements of the planets determine the future of men-Weakens in proportion as it becomes apparent that the action of men will determine the future of the planets.

Research carried out by the newspaper on the eve of the publication of the New Year honours list "shows that nearly half the recipients of honours ranked at knighthood or above had been privately educated, the same proportion as it was 60 years ago".

Many years before, in The Art of Fiction, a brilliant, almost polemical declaration on behalf of the novel as an art form, he had written "A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts".

On the contrary, 46% R gave fewer LLR and more LR than 8% R. The proportion of LR adults generally increased with R egg proportion, however, R egg proportion had little effect on the genotype proportions as long as it stayed below approximately 50% with the sperm pattern of the normal populations and 80% with the sperm pattern of the LRR-rich populations.

"It's all been blown out of proportion as far as I'm concerned," he was told by another.

At many big corporations, employees' retirement money is invested in company stock in similar proportions as it was at Enron.

Turku Castle is a modest medieval fortress that grew to immense proportions as it was occupied by succeeding waves of Swedish royalty.

His famous Vitruvian Man is actually an illustration of the Greek canon of human proportions, as it was handed down to the Renaissance by the Roman author Vitruvius.