Sentence examples for proportion to the problem from inspiring English sources

Thomas K. Petersen, a semi-retired judge in Miami who spent a decade hearing cases in juvenile court, said that the state's reaction was out of proportion to the problem and that it has lately failed to take account of changed circumstances.

Douglas Alexander, who was transport secretary until three weeks ago, told the Home Office the bulk transfer of data to the police was out of proportion to the problem and "might be seen as colouring the debate about road charging (that material being collected for traffic purposes is being used for other outcomes)".

* If the bill contains the names of lawyers and paralegals you have never met, work you did not ask for or fees out of proportion to the problem the lawyer was hired to solve, do not be afraid to question it.

But these proposals are too modest, out of proportion to the problems that confront us.

Would it be illegal in these circumstances for at least one presidential candidate to propose policies remotely in proportion to the problems that confront us?

A handful of politicians have raised concerns over the years, but the truth is that while taxpayers continue to fork out tens of millions for systems that are utterly out of proportion to the problems the police and intelligence agencies face, the issues about liberty and oversight find no mainstream political expression.

Although there is much evidence to suggest that providing teenagers with more information about sex and contraception makes them have sex later, and more safely, the campaign is sure to be controversial.Some argue that the symbolic significance teenage mothers have acquired is out of all proportion to the problems they actually pose to society at large.

In order for minimum pricing to satisfy the law it would have to show it was in proportion to the problems caused by alcohol, without unduly restricting competition.

Yet I do know that the market reactions are wildly out of proportion to the real problems that have been revealed.

Rector and some other conservatives view the array of anti-poverty efforts as an uncoordinated sprawl that is out of proportion to the actual poverty problem, which afflicts 13.5percentt of the U.S. population.

It is crucial that the level of intervention taken is in proportion to the scale of the problem.