Sentence examples for test of proportionality from inspiring English sources

Use of these new powers will require a long-established test of proportionality, and courts will have to be persuaded of the need to grant these orders.

If alternative types of detention had been at least considered by the minister and then rejected on reasonable grounds, it might have met the test of proportionality.

Cf. Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U. S. 377, 402-403 (2000) (BREYER, J., concurring) (test of proportionality between burdens and benefits "where a law significantly implicates competing constitutionally protected interests").

Rather than continue to be mired in the vexatious quagmire of the doctrine of double effect--all in an effort to "test" whether end-stage decisions by health care providers are licit or illicit--a relatively simple test of proportionality, or cost-benefit analysis, is proffered.

Therefore, also binding measures would pass the test of proportionality.

Compliance with qualified duties inevitably requires duties holders to perform a risk-focussed cost/benefit analysis and a test of proportionality.7.7

Tests of proportionality, based on plotting of partial residual values for each covariate, were run to verify the Cox Proportional Hazards assumption.

A test of the proportionality hazards assumption showed no deviation from proportionality (P = 0.27).

To address potential violations of the assumption that the SNPs do not have effects on cancer risk independent of their effects on TL, we re-estimated the associations between the TL SNP score and cancer after stepwise removal of potentially problematic SNPs from the SNP set using a goodness-of-fit test of the proportionality of the SNPs' associations with TL and cancer risk.

Figure 1 presents the Kaplan-Meier survival curves for the cumulative proportion with at least one episode of clinical malaria in cohort 2. A test for proportionality of hazards showed that these were not constant over time (Schoenfeld residuals p = 0.004), therefore suggesting waning efficacy over the double-blind phase.

On the other hand, it should not bias proportional testing as the aim there is to test for proportionality of effect size rather than evidence of residual effect.