Sentence examples for were commensurate from inspiring English sources
verb
To reduce to a common measure.
Their actions were appropriate and their numbers were commensurate with the needs of the operation, it said.
An inquiry determined "that the injuries suffered by the detainee were commensurate with the force necessary to secure him," the report said.
The comment, along with the selection of Leno as guest, were commensurate with the self-critiquing meta-narrative of "The Late Late Show".
Elaborating in an interview, Mr. Gross said he did not think the public benefits from philanthropy were commensurate with the tax breaks that givers receive.
But spokesmen for the two district attorneys who handled most of his cases, Richard A. Brown of Queens and Charles J. Hynes of Brooklyn, defended his sentences, saying they were commensurate with the crimes.
BDS has accused SodaStream of paying Palestinian workers less than their Israeli counterparts, but Birnbaum and employees at the factory said wages for Palestinians and Israeli workers were commensurate.
It is commensurate with the pervasive harm done.
Much was asked of Neil Armstrong, and he was commensurate.
"I put in the effort that was commensurate with that".
His productivity is commensurate only with his stubbornness.
For them, compromise is commensurate with defeat — not political expediency.
