Sentence examples for proportionate reaction from inspiring English sources
The terrorism acts, he says, "are a broadly proportionate reaction to the current threat".
In the context of that massive decline, the commission's proposal seems like a proportionate reaction.
Dawes sees it as a proportionate response that prompted an "inconsistent" reaction from Sark locals: "The people of Sark appeared to have just voted very clearly against the investment and jobs brought by my clients to Sark but then protested even more vigorously at these events, which was, on the face of it, entirely inconsistent".
The reaction to the financial crisis, the authors conclude, looked less like a proportionate response to the losses suffered and "more like old-fashioned 'panic'".Horror storyThe authors' conclusions were reinforced by a separate test administered to a few hundred university students.
Proportionate response is also about civil liberties.
Far from being a knee-jerk reaction, the recent call for a boycott of the theatre group Incubator at the Edinburgh Festival by a large group of people including national poet Liz Lochead, the writer Alasdair Gray and the group Scottish Jews for a Just Peace was a carefully considered and proportionate response to a group which is funded by the Israeli state.
Downing Street spoke of a "proportionate" response.
"We have a proportionate response in place," he said.
Instead, we need a proportionate response to extremism.
I think we do need to make a proportionate response.
