Sentence examples for proportion because of from inspiring English sources

The premium will be given to the schools on the basis of each additional student who is eligible for free school meals (a rising proportion because of the economic downturn).

The West, Texas event was a tragedy of almost epic proportion because of its far-reaching and direct impact upon an entire community.

The situation reached crisis proportion because of domestic political mistakes that portrayed Greece as a perpetrator and not a victim of the international financial crisis.

Springer's lawyer, John Tyre, said that innocent behavior had been "blown out of proportion" because of the Berndt case.

Springer's lawyer, John Tyre, said innocent behavior had been "blown out of proportion" because of the Berndt case.

Farm animals are believed to play the most significant role in this context, contributing parasite cysts/oocysts in large proportion because of their high abundance on farms [ 7].

No strategy sufficed.'' She also suggested that his alcoholism took on crippling proportions because of his despair.

In Louisiana's St Tammany Parish, officials late Friday asked people living near two rivers to consider evacuating because the rivers were rising to "historical proportions" because of heavy rains north of the area.

But on the front lines and in the prison camp, that quality was magnified to heroic proportions because of the horrific situation in which it was expressed, Father Hotze says.

You recently wrote to President Obama threatening "a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions" because of the Obama administration's decision not to support a federal ban on gay marriage.

The duration of shelter use was transformed into proportions because of the different length of night (total 10 h) and day (total 6 h).