Sentence examples for proportional from inspiring English sources

But without a more proportional voting system it may be all the harder to get the wider reform of parliament and its relationship with the constituent nations of Britain needed to save the union.

In other countries with more proportional electoral systems – such as Germany or New Zealand's mixed-member system, where candidates vote for a party as well as a local representative – leaders have a big incentive to debate to win votes for their party.

Similarly, the slope of the cosine curve at any point is negatively proportional to the sine.

In the report the ERS calculates that, had the election been conducted under a proportional single transferable vote system, Ukip would have won 54 seats, the Lib Dems 26 instead of 8, and the Greens three instead of one.

If the election had been conducted with a system of proportional representation, Ukip would have been the third-biggest party, after the Conservatives and Labour, with about 82 seats.

If they help to secure a Labour government, they will be in a stronger position to secure legislation for proportional representation by 2018.

Scotland recorded a proportional rise of 11% and Wales saw a proportional rise of 4% between 2006/08 and 2010/12.

This means, if you stop to think about it, that the rate of change of the rate of change at any point (the second differential of a sine or cosine curve, to use the mathematical term) is always in negative proportion to its height at that point; it is as if it was being pushed towards the origin by a force proportional to its distance from it.

And we are moving towards an elected system that will, presumably, and hopefully, have to be based on some form of proportional voting, so that issue is going to come back quite quickly.

The battle cry for those interested in equality must be proportional representation (PR).

Proportional systems tend to guarantee that no one gets to rule on their own.