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proportionate
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In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
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The amounts would need to be proportionate – we mustn't penalise legitimate visa applicants who will struggle to get hold of the money.
The letter to protesters, which was sent on Friday, said the university's response has so far been "reasonable and proportionate" and that it still hoped for a peaceful resolution and discussions.
They used like "proportionate" and "within the law" and such things then.
In October, the information commissioner's office told operators that "surveillance cameras must only be used as a necessary and proportionate response to a real and pressing problem".
The disrepute charge was handed down mainly over the club's failure to pay more than £13m in taxes last season and the SFA's legal representative, Aidan O'Neill QC, had said that the punishment had to be "effective, dissuasive and proportionate".
"If the world doesn't respond in a way that's appropriate and proportionate, then other dictators will think they can gas children".
Not only must any publication comply with the provisions of the DPA, it will only be lawful if it is proportionate and there is a pressing social need to publish.
He will consider whether the powers are being used in a way that is necessary, proportionate and subject to sufficient safeguards.
The matter was referred up to the executive editor for TV current affairs, Clive Edwards, who told the complainant his daughter would not be used in the film but "said that the deception used to film the programme was justified by the public interest and proportionate".
Such measures are "proportionate, justified and necessary because of the threats that exist towards each officer", according to superintendent Leor Giladi, who runs GMP's specialist operations branch, which includes the tactical firearms unit.
The Scottish government also wants more localised discretion in implementing regulations to make EU policies "more proportionate and less burdensome", pointing to changes made to the common fisheries policy last year.
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