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"proportionate response" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to an appropriate or fitting response to a situation or action, often with the connotation of being fair or just. Example: The company's management team determined that a proportionate response to the employee's mistake would be a written warning and additional training, rather than immediate termination.
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Proportionate response is also about civil liberties.
Downing Street spoke of a "proportionate" response.
We are simply asking for a proportionate response.
It was therefore a proportionate response to introduce voter ID.
5. Cruise missiles can deliver a proportionate response in Syria.
Proportionate response is not just about military measures.
Instead, we need a proportionate response to extremism.
"We have a proportionate response in place," he said.
I think we do need to make a proportionate response.
But security minister Lord West defended the measures as a proportionate response.
Statistically you're overwhelmingly safe from terrorism, remembering that enables us to have a proportionate response".
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