Sentence examples for proportion representation from inspiring English sources

The Tories and Labour will each get around 50 seats more than they would get with proportion representation.Why the SNP surge, given that it is also a "small" party?

In our sample we did not obtain the desired proportion representation (25% each) of the four severity categories of the independent variable (OSA: absent, mild, moderate and severe).

This work provided evidence for a model of binocular brightness (cyclopic image) in which the percept of physical stimuli arriving at the two eyes could be described by a summation representation (Eq.  3) and the respondents' distortion of numbers in magnitude/ratio productions by a proportion representation (Eq. 4 both are presented and discussed below.

Systems of proportional representation are designed to ensure a closer correspondence between the proportion of votes cast for a party and the proportion of seats it receives.

Elections are held on the basis of proportional representation, in which each political party gains seats in the Folketing in proportion to its strength among the voters.

In proportional representation, by contrast, representatives of different groups are seated in the legislature in proportion to citizens' choices.

"Proportional Representation = Real Representation," said one.

Uruguay's electoral system is party-list proportional representation: parties, and every faction within them, present a list of nominees in order of preference, who are elected to parliament in proportion to the votes obtained by the parties.

Genes were reclassified into developmental stages using a series of arbitrarily chosen specificity thresholds, such that in order for a gene to be classified as specific to a stage, its highest proportion of representation had to occur at that stage and also exceed the proportion of representation at any other stage by a threshold of more than twofold, fourfold, or eightfold.

By way of compromise, Pennsylvania's Gouverneur Morris moved that "taxation shall be in proportion to Representation": the South could have its slaves counted in exchange for an increased tax burden.

The number of genes classified into each category and proportion of representation threshold from the EST analysis is shown in Table 1.