Sentence examples for proportion to real from inspiring English sources
This can manifest as either a dangerously inflated ego or a sense of guilt that is not in proportion to real events.
These feelings are either unusually intense or out of proportion to the real troubles and dangers of the person's everyday life.
Yet I do know that the market reactions are wildly out of proportion to the real problems that have been revealed.
At the moment, its prospects look poor.Besides, the extraordinary attention paid to reforms of the "international architecture" over the past five years has been out of proportion to its real importance.
Projected by the theatre of Parliament, the deployment of six RAF bombers has taken on a military and political significance out of all proportion to their real military value.
He is chosen not directly by popular vote but in 50 state contests where the winner takes all the electoral-college votes of each state (actually, two of the states, Maine and Nebraska, divide their votes in proportion to the real vote, but never mind that detail).
the tax benefits or returns are out of proportion to any real economic activity, expense or investment risk.
Our access to 24/7 media blows war and unrest all out of proportion to its real effects and we worry far too much about things that will never touch us.
Exide Technologies' stock decline from $2.61 on April third to $1.44 where it is currently trading seems completely out of proportion to the real chance of bankruptcy and the likely costs posed by arsenic emissions at the Vernon facility.
But it seems abundantly clear that economic sanctions and political confrontation over the fate of the Eastern Ukraine magnify the risks to global order far out of proportion to any real U.S. and Western interests.
"The point is just to level the playing field and to give all the candidates the ability to get their message out in proportion to the real community support they have and not let someone with a few big donors blow everyone out of the water," he said.
