Sentence examples for proportionate balanced from inspiring English sources
"Our aim throughout has been to develop an approach which is proportionate, balanced and effective, with the scheme operating in a way which is neither burdensome nor bureaucratic, or off-putting to potential volunteers in children's settings – while still meeting the concerns of parents".
The second factor will be a contextually proportionate balance: how balanced the intelligence is between its different elements, and how well-suited the balance is to the tasks at hand.
For years, there was no talk of a "minimal deterrent," proportionate response or balancing defense against other priorities.
The Administration's handling of the unprecedented emergency that began on September 11th has been, in its broad outlines, balanced and proportionate.
Mr. Shatter described the discussions with ministers as "very interesting and considered" but noted that the conclusion of the group, at least initially, was that updated E.U. data protection laws must be "balanced and proportionate" and not stifle businesses.
DUP MP Sir Jeffery Donaldson tells the paper that paramilitaries were responsible "for 90% of Troubles deaths" and he calls for legacy investigations to be "balanced and proportionate".
The move would have to be proportionate and to balance the public interest against that of individuals.
It's the edited highlights of how our little subspecies came about and there's little that's balanced, even, democratic or proportionate about it.
Balanced against that calculation is the need to look proportionate – to avoid the impression of constitutional vandalism and frenzied authoritarianism that built up as the last government heaped up ever more draconian anti-terror laws.
Or even remotely proportionate.
