Sentence examples for proportional effort from inspiring English sources

If the attack could not be repulsed, the new playbook calls for "active defense," which General Dempsey defined as a "proportional" effort "to go out and disable the particular botnet that was attacking us".

The Checks & Balances Project sought not only to identify meeting attendees, but to ask ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director Todd Wynn basic questions about ALEC's interest in devoting proportional effort to cutting wasteful government welfare to highly profitable, mature fossil fuel sectors.

Few would argue that such a pay increase is proportional to their effort or to their economic contribution, or that it is deserved.

Brokers say that success in finding a brownstone apartment is directly proportional to the effort put into the search.

We could have equivalently assumed that the job contact probability is simply proportional to search effort.

When we ride a bicycle, the speed we travel is directly proportional to the effort we put into the pedals.

The survey has used a design of randomly placed stations, stratified (on depth data where available, using small blocks elsewhere), with sampling effort proportional to stratum area.

Proportional data (foraging effort) were arcsine transformed prior to analysis.

To maintain observer effort proportional to the size of each patch, observers walked at a regular pace though each patch in a systematic pattern such that one observer passed within 75 m of every point in a patch exactly once.

It is assumed to be proportional to the effort of the measured muscle [ 11].

Thus, greater adult mortality should select for less growth and a greater reproductive effort (proportional allocation to current reproduction).