In proportioning the mix, the aggregates are graded in size so the cement matrix that joins them together is minimized.
The voters in Colorado were offered the opportunity to marginalize their vote by proportioning the electoral votes.
The nation as a whole was complicit in the sin of slavery, so God is just exacting the penalty of that sin, proportioning blood spilt by soldiers' bayonets to that shed by slavemasters' whips.
Indeed he cast his net widely when he said that it is not only the leaders of men who have the duty of proportioning belief to evidence.
The wise man, proportioning his belief to the evidence, would believe that the testimony in favour of the miracle is false.
An alternative policy is possible, namely proportioning people's rights to their level of normative agency.
For Bosanquet, then, education should be primarily directed at improving character; it is the remedy for "awakening interests and proportioning them to values" (op. cit., p. 237).
One could then concede that practical rationality requires you to maximize expected utility, while insisting that theoretical rationality might require something else of you — say, proportioning belief to the amount of evidence available.
To guide the legislator in proportioning punishments to offences he stipulated thirteen rules or "canons", such as that the punishment must outweigh the profit of the offence, venture more against a great offence than a small one, punish for each particle of the mischief, and the like (1970, 167 71; see also Bedau, 2004; Draper, 2009).
Individuating "fundamental units" in this way gives us some hope of securing a notion of rational progress in science since, on this picture, one can rationally move from one "fundamental theory" to another by proportioning one's confidences to the evidence within the Bayesian framework.
In operation, the process involves the proportioning, drying, and mixing of the lead-bearing materials and fluxes, followed by their injection into the reaction shaft, where they are ignited by a heated blast of commercially pure oxygen.
