Munitions should be "proportionate and discriminate to avoid civilian casualties," said Georgette Gagnon, the human rights director for the United Nations mission here.
This implies a joint responsibility in the therapy alliance, to refine, regulate, and discern proportionate from disproportionate measures, in order to avoid therapeutic cruelty.
Madeleine Moon MP, a member of the Commons Defence Select Committee, accused the MoD of "exploiting a legal technicality to avoid paying fair and proportionate compensation" to service personnel exposed to asbestos.
"The action that we take will be proportionate, targeted; we will do all we humanly can to avoid civilian tragedies.
"The SRC will be working with the Scottish government to ensure that the legislation is proportionate and as far as possible consistent across the UK to avoid confusion for customers and businesses".
If the cost of disease is very low there is little incentive to avoid it, and disease dynamics will be those associated with proportionate mixing.
In response the principle advocates that actions ought to be taken to avoid or reduce the harm, and that these actions need to be proportionate to the seriousness of the potential harm.
Our data showed a lower proportionate need for postexposure prophylaxis (not actual rabies) in long-term travelers than in short-term travelers (7 vs. 23/1,000, OR 0.31, p<0.0001), possibly because long-term travelers may be more knowledgeable or better educated about animal exposure risks, more likely to avoid exposures, and more likely to have been vaccinated before travel.
The evil must be directed at the defendant or someone for whom he was responsible, and the act must be proportionate to the evil avoided.
However, it said the changes agreed by the British authorities would cut the subsidy by more than £1bn, meaning that state aid would remain "proportionate to the objective pursued, avoiding any undue distortions of competition".
