Sentence examples for reasonably proportionate from inspiring English sources

Deputy Rackard's lawyers, in an appeals court brief last year, said the use of "moderate nondeadly force in the face of spirited, though nonviolent, resistance was a reasonably proportionate response".

"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.

As other observers have suggested [ 7, 8, 37], it may be that the prospects for successful, reasonably proportionate recruitment and retention of 'hard to reach' or 'difficult to find' groups depends on both appropriately addressing the potential barriers and the nature of the study itself.

S: Afghanistan was a "reasonable and proportionate" response.

The ruling stated that the surveillance was "not proportionate and could not reasonably have been believed to be proportionate".

The court held that "crowd control measures" would be permitted in law if they were resorted to in good faith, were proportionate and were enforced for no longer than was reasonably necessary.

Rather, only a proportionate, sustained effort to optimize one's weight can reasonably be demanded [ 23].

"To be proportionate, the penalty must go no further than what is reasonably necessary to reflect his level of wrongdoing," the solicitor argued.

We thus postulated that national experiences would follow reasonably similar patterns where countries lacking mesothelioma data were probably "missing" the disease burden to an extent proportionate to the level of historical cumulative asbestos use.

Or even remotely proportionate.

Are the restrictive measures proportionate?