Sentence examples for share commensurate from inspiring English sources

By contrast, Luxembourg does not appear to pay a share commensurate with its wealth.Not all will agree with these figures, which are based on calculations by the European Commission.

A more plausible explanation might be that, as emerging economies develop and their educational and living standards rise, they participate more prominently in innovation and have a global economic share more commensurate to their size.

Lucky for us that the rest of the country, even in a slide of doubt, is full of people who believe that we still have something in our shared opportunity commensurate with our capacity to wonder, to borrow from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Agents in a network are guaranteed a share of value commensurate with the intensity of competition for them.

That is, he contended that anyone who benefits greatly from the presence of some institution is morally required to bear a commensurate share of the burden of sustaining that institution's existence.

Given the city's one-third representation on the university system's board of trustees, the governor and his aides said, it made even more sense for the city to pay a commensurate share of the costs.

Why in the world shouldn't workers take home a commensurate share of the rewards their work produces?

A more important, and contentious, issue is the first-past-the-post electoral system, which regularly denies the Lib Dems and smaller parties a share of parliamentary seats commensurate with their share of the vote.

Word of the president's decision came a day after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter disclosed that they would return a share of their salaries commensurate with the pay lost by the department's civilian employees who are expected to be furloughed for 14 days before the end of the fiscal year.

He also offered profit sharing and salaries often commensurate with those being offered by Facebook or Google, who were also recruiting from the Obama campaign.

But at the United Nations, the bid for new American assessments is viewed as the spectacle of the world's richest country seeking to avoid paying assessments commensurate with its share of world economic output.