Sentence examples for proportionate it from inspiring English sources
But North Korea's erratic behavior raises the ante on any such move, no matter how "just" or "proportionate" it might appear.
The military plan.. is proportionate, it is limited, it does not mean boots on the ground.
"Where regulation is well-designed and proportionate, it should stay," he said in April.
"It has to be proportionate, it has to be ethical and it has to be auditable," he said.
How much more imaginative and proportionate it would have been to make this a suspended sentence conditional on his undergoing treatment, to be activated if Suarez reoffended or refused medical help.
According to the Geneva conventions, force must be proportionate and when these images appeared on Arabic television - dead families stacked on top of each other - it looked anything but proportionate; it looked like mass murder.
Hancock said that limitations to protest should be proportionate, adding: "It would be wrong for those very people in power to be able to forbid protests because they find them a nuisance".
This can be as big as you want, although be sure to make it proportionate to other objects if you're adding it to a scene.
Andy Holt, assistant chief constable for South Yorkshire, who heads the UK Football Policing Unit, says the tactic works: "It is hard-hitting, but it is proportionate – and it works.
"I do think it's important that an apology too is an important thing and if you are talking about sacking someone, [you have to ask] is it proportionate.
