Sentence examples for sufficiently proportionate from inspiring English sources

Unless the penalty is sufficiently proportionate, it will not be effective; a small fine may simply be seen as a running cost for a large company.

The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Newark, says the city's at-large voting system prevents Hispanic voters from forming sufficiently cohesive blocks to elect a proportionate number of council members.

But they stressed that such a system "must be proportionate to the means of the individual and be sufficiently flexible to take into account particular personal circumstances".

"On the current state of the ECHR case-law, we do not consider the bulk powers in the Bill to be inherently incompatible with the right to respect for private life, but capable of being justified if they have a sufficiently clear legal basis, are shown to be necessary, and are proportionate in that they are accompanied by adequate safeguards against arbitrariness," it writes.

The Marmot report "Fairer Society Fairer Lives", recently argued for a policy of "proportionate universalism": "Focusing solely on the most disadvantaged will not reduce health inequalities sufficiently.

Or even remotely proportionate.

Are the restrictive measures proportionate?

But is it proportionate?

It's not proportionate.

Not sufficiently.

But the measures have to be proportionate".