Sentence examples for proportionate scope from inspiring English sources

These question levels are of similar scope to the data levels: the tissue level data is of similar scope to human-scale biology questions, the patient level data is of comparable scope to clinical questions, and the population level data is of proportionate scope to epidemic-scale questions.

Lord Bingham of Cornhill said that under Article 9(2), for a restriction to be justified it must be "prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society for a permissible purpose, that is, it must be directed to a legitimate purpose and must be proportionate in scope and effect".

The FTT is on sound legal footing and totally proportionate in its scope.

"The narrow investigation that Attorney General Holder announced today is not proportionate to the scale and scope of the wrongdoing".

Essex Police had to demonstrate that the "degree of interference" and the wide scope of the production order was "necessary and proportionate", he said.

Having affirmed the position taken in Anisminic, Lord Dyson then qualified his statement by emphasizing that "the scope of judicial review should be no more (as well as no less) than is proportionate and necessary for the maintaining of the rule of law".

"But when telecommunications users and taxpayers are liable for the cost of 'everything', some discipline should be applied to the scope and volume of agency requests, to increase the likelihood that the national cost incurred is reasonably proportionate to the additional national security garnered," they said.

"Having had the courage to find out the scale and scope of violence against children in the country, the government now has the challenge of planning and delivering a proportionate response," said Andrew Brooks, UNICEF Chief of Child Protection in Tanzania.

"Having had the courage to find out the scale and scope of violence against children in the country, the government now has the challenge of planning and delivering a proportionate response".

Or even remotely proportionate.

Are the restrictive measures proportionate?