Sentence examples for proportionate but rather from inspiring English sources

Security officials talk of "proactive deterrence", saying any future response would no longer be proportionate, but rather punitive enough to dissuade the Kim Jong-il regime in Pyongyang from making further attacks.

While Woods makes clear that one has to be "cautious" on any estimates of casualties, it's not just a numeric decline that is being seen, but rather it's a "proportionate decline".

The right amount is not some quantity between zero and the highest possible level, but rather the amount, whatever it happens to be, that is proportionate to the seriousness of the situation.

But rather quite the opposite.

Nice but rather unlikely.

It is no longer the owners of small businesses or manufacturers who will have to ask governments whether products can be imported but rather the Member States which will henceforth have to demonstrate that all the provisions they have enacted are necessary and proportionate.

The risks from such exposure can, however, be minimised through proportionate but effective risk management.

However, risk from occupational exposure to carcinogens can be minimised through proportionate but effective risk management.

The extreme case is A. tumefaciens where the composition is very much proportionate but violations of ISFDP are strong.

The race and ethnicity distribution between the groups was not proportionate, but again this difference was not significant (P=0.31).

Therefore we estimated the effect of the Quality and Outcomes Framework on the proportionate, rather than on the absolute, differences between admission rates for incentivised ACSCs and the other two groups of conditions.