How To Use Proportional In A Sentence

T, sea level rise would also contain a term proportional to the time derivative of temperature, dT/dt. RealClimate
The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
And Archimedes proved from his axioms on the lever that two unequal weights balance at distances from the fulcrum that are inversely proportional to their weights.
The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
Kepler's third law of planetary motion says that the square of the planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of its semimajor axis.

This shows countries drawn as geometric blocks whose size is proportional to the nation's total GDP.
A dense wood will have proportionally more elasticity and resistance, but also a greater margin of shrinkage and swelling.
With their proportionally short wings, long legs with robust femora, and large, robust feet (Bennett 2001), azhdarchids were likely to have been even better suited for terrestrial foraging than most other pterodactyloids. Archive 2006-04-01
Voting will be by means of proportional representation with the number of seats a political party gets corresponding to its overall share of the vote.
In this election, as in the last, almost every female candidate would have to be elected for the assembly to reach proportional representation.
Carapace width does not vary within a molt and is proportional to the length of the males' raptorial forelimbs, which they use in attacking other males.
The pressure of a gas is ( directly ) proportional to its absolute temperature when volume remains constant.
Furthermore, with the spine as the line of symmetry, ‘right’ and ‘left’ sides are proportionally equal, but inverses of one another.
Euclid wished to discover whether there existed a simple geometrical proportionality between the apparent size of equal and parallel lines and their distances from the eye.
The constant of proportionality was taken to be a universal constant of nature.
The first part introduces the selection between the proportional tax rate and the progressive tax rate.
The first study showed that birds with long bills spend proportionally more time scratching with their feet than do birds with short bills, presumably as compensation for the unwieldiness of long bills.
Distribution of funds should be proportional to the base of tax paying citizens domiciling in each Province. A Water Policy for Canada
If sales growth is lower than inventory growth, inventories are liquidated to once again restore proportionality.
Crucially, it then requires that "representation… shall be degressively proportional", with a minimum threshold of six MEPs per Member State. European Parliament seats
Swords and knives, especially, were made to be directly proportional to the size of the user.
For electromagnetism, the coupling constant is proportional to the square of the electric charge.
The picture galleries of the High Museum are treated as subsidiary spaces shunted off from the proportionally dominant, glass-paneled entry rotunda, which is flooded with daylight and unusable for the display of works that require careful conservation. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Putting those proportionalities together algebraically allows you deduce a relationship between speed and the number of rowers.
As I said, the impedance of a capacitor is inversely proportional to its capacitance and the impedance of an inductor directly proportional to its inductance.
Instead the heat is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
The rate at which solid state sintering occurs is approximately inversely proportional to the particle size involved.
In fact the specific problem which he set out to solve was to find two mean proportionals between two straight lines.
The Ramsey rule stipulates that to minimize excess burden, tax rates should be set so that the proportional reduction in the quantity demanded of each good is the same.
The signal-to-noise ratio of FCS measurements is proportional to the square of the molecular brightness.
The optical path difference is directly proportional to the cosine of the angle of refraction through the coating.
Unfortunately their specific status remains uncertain as not enough data is known – while populations might be continuous with B. celebensis and hence referable to that species, a skull from near Kulawi in central Sulawesi differs from other babirusas in being particularly small, in having proportionally long lower premolars, and in various cranial proportions. Archive 2006-08-01
That is, their level of lethality is inversely proportional to their proximity to any innocent, doe-eyed, child.
The circle sizes are proportional to the numbers of molecules they represent.
It may be objected that the Royal Commission which issued its Report last spring, did not recommend the incorporation of proportional representation into our electoral system. Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election
How do animals dictate the correct proportional sizes for their body parts?
The amount of colour developed during a fixed time is proportional to the tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the sample.
O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
In Finland and Norway elections between the wars were conducted on the basis of the "list" system of proportional representation. Fascists and Conservatives
The American Law Institute recently revised the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions, calling for a renewed commitment to proportionality based on the gravity of offenses, the "blameworthiness" of offenders, and the "harms done to crime victims. Walker on Herbert Wechsler, the Model Penal Code, and the Uses of Revenge
The best hope was that it would offer other safe harbors and define proportionality more flexibly.
The voltage induced in the pickup coil by this waveform is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic induction.
He had nothing to offer on whether the Selectric balls duplicated the superscripts found on Word, or whether the Selectric balls could produce proportional fonts, kerning, or centered titles.
At the same time, the single-channel conductance is proportional to the buffer conductivity in a wide range of salt concentrations.
The photometric signal - to - noise ratio is roughly proportional to the square root of the signal intensity.
Those who wished to brew beer for their own household could use the abbey brewery - again upon a proportional payment.
The output should be proportional to the input.
More significantly, this less-than-proportional increase in genome size in a polyploid species expected from the addition of its diploid progenitors appeared to be a widespread phenomenon in flowering plants.
The system of proportional representation has led to the minority parties continually holding the balance of power in the parliament.
Our results are consistent with read number being proportional to fish numbers, but more work is needed on the precise relationship of eDNA and fish abundance. Smithsonian Mag
The page states Newton's second law of motion as mass and acceleration having a relationship of inverse proportionality.
Broadly speaking biodiversity is proportional to the amount of area that you can develop it in.
Some of these decisions are applications of the requirement of proportionality of punishment to offence.
That disproportion brings unhappiness we know - not always, of course, practicing proportionality ourselves.
The Dail is elected using proportional representation, and in a united Ireland, Protestants would make up close to 20% of the population. Matthew Yglesias » Learning From Belfast
In his own words, “The proportion existing between the periodic times of any two planets is exactly the sesquiplicate proportion of the mean distances of the orbits,” or as generally given, “the squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances.” Kepler
In general, the spininess of the clinkers is inversely proportional to both the thickness of the clinker layer and of the flow itself.
Seven Australian parliamentary chambers are elected using proportional representation, and four use optional preferential voting.
The rotation rate was set to provide one Earth gravity for the radius of the fore bulb, but accelerative force was inversely proportional to the radius. Science and Science Fiction: Star Dragon
Standard curves established for each stock suspension showed that light transmittance at the characteristic wavelength was inversely proportional to the concentration of gold colloid.
After shaking a bottle of Scotch, the length of time the surface bubbles survive is proportional to the proof. Times, Sunday Times
The proportionalities can be defined as functions to obtain quantitative measurement systems.
The theorem states that the posterior probability is proportional to the prior probability multiplied by the likelihood.
After shaking a bottle of Scotch, the length of time the surface bubbles survive is proportional to the proof. Times, Sunday Times
He talked about proportionality in linear and non-linear relationships.
The first irony is that AV is not a system of proportional representation at all. Times, Sunday Times
And just think, if we ever achieve proper reform and a genuinely proportional system, we might see the splitting apart of the big old parties and perhaps a genuinely progressive, genuinely viable alternative to the preening, self serving, oleaginous Labour Party, which has failed everyone in this country who claims a leftist or liberal bent, will emerge. Constitutional reform: Alternative currents | Editorial
More elaborate forecasting systems might recognize peculiar problems associated with work on particular items and modify these simple proportional cost estimates.
Wider representation or proportionality is delivered through the Senate.
The magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic material is inversely proportional to absolute temperature.
Payment will be proportional to the amount of work done.
This quest led him to make from memory extremely small sculptures on proportionally large bases.
But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
It's the German-style proportional system so it's weighted to favour the minor parties.
Hollow and solid materials comparison and stable proportional scales highlight the architectural rusticity and massiness with the grand, stately, impressive and bold feeling.
Proportionality refers to the level and extent of force used by combatants in the discharge of their duties.
Furthermore , both cmax and AUC increased in proportional to the dosages.
Assuming a constant wing shape and oscillating stroke, the average lift is proportional to the square of wingbeat frequency.
My call for compulsory voting is coupled with a call for proportional representation.
Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
In every circuit, voltage, current and resistance are exactly proportional, mathematically speaking.
Loss of weight is directly proportional to the rate at which the disease is progressing.
An enclosed bend sensor attaches to the cheek and measures smile size, a servo motor moves a metal spike into the head inversely proportional to the degree of smile. Smile or Suffer the Consequences While Wearing the Happiness Hat
The circles are almacantars (loci of constant elevation), spaced at 10° intervals; radial distance is proportional to cos (elevation angle).
In fact we should mention the proportional representation work by him in the 1880s when he considered apportionment of representatives to districts.
Also, the proportional representation system used in the Assembly elections means that votes do not translate directly into seats.
The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the straight line in which that force is impressed.
The hand fratto is a type of Christian liturgical song performed with proportional values: on the contrary, the so-called Gregorian cantus fractus have often with a notation elements mensurali, which indicates with precision the value of the notes. Archive 2008-01-01
On the Yes side, there are those who would prefer STV the single transferable vote with multimember constituencies, long regarded as the most proportional system or something else. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum?
The fact that groups like Hezballah are releasing, for the first time, a national agenda - to remove confessionalism from the political system, introduce proportional voting, combat corruption and lower the voting age to 18 - is evidence that the political dynamics in the country have indeed changed. Global Voices in English » Lebanon: From the Election Campaign Trail
Which one of the following parliaments or assemblies does not use proportional representation?
If vote-splitting is not an issue for discussion in the election post-mortem, then proportional representation should be.
As in the latter case the imagination discovers not so entire an union as in the former, but is able to trace and preserve a distinct idea of the property of each; this is the reason, why the civil law, tho 'it established an entire community in the case of confusion, and after that a proportional division, yet in the case of commixtion, supposes each of the proprietors to maintain a distinct right; however necessity may at last force them to submit to the same division. A Treatise of Human Nature
It was found that its oxygen index, smoke density were directly proportional to content of carburizer whereas its initial expanding time was inversely proportional to content of carburizer.
Quentin : Well a proportional representation system would solve that problem.
Table 11.7 lays out the main elements and their likely proportional magnitude.
This luminescence is measured and is directly proportional to the number of trapped electrons, and thus to the total radiation dose.
How do you find that phone if you are not scouring broadly all the possibilities, while trying to make sure you use necessity and proportionality? Times, Sunday Times
The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
The other was proportional representation. Times, Sunday Times
The speed of the glider is directly proportional to the speed of the wind.
However, the hard part about crime data is that it is usually disproportionally impacted by certain "hotspot areas," as well as certain types of crime. Reflections on Living with Violence in Mexico
The speed of the glider is directly proportional to the speed of the wind.
The other acts as a pickup coil producing a voltage proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linking it.
The usefulness of most Web sites is directly proportional to the benefits it offers to the people who visit it.
Matt, you are confusing alcohol excise taxes (which are almost always per bottle) with ad valorem sales tax (proportional to price), and that makes your post inconsistent. Matthew Yglesias » Higher Taxes on Alcohol
The effects of these gases were directly proportional to the amount inhaled by the soldier.
In the national court, proportionality has to be judged according to national conditions.
On the other hand, the French and the Dutch probably haven't done done us Yanks any big favor, since the eventual bust is likely to be proportional to the size of the bubble.
The increase of wages is proportional to the rise in prices.
Loss of weight is directly proportional to the rate at which the disease is progressing.
Overall, these various proportional systems achieve a greater or lesser degree of proportionality in representation.
Even proportional representation for local government, an issue on which Plaid has campaigned strongly on in the past, is now described as unattractive if it blocks his route to power. Overkeen Plaid abandon principles already
[230] The title proceeds: _Seu duae mediae proportionales inter extremas datas per circulum et per infinitas hyperbolas, vel ellipses et per quamlibet exhibitae_ .... A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
The political element would be secured through the adoption of proportional representation.
Other ideas that were vetoed included setting fixed terms for councillors and allowing councils to pilot proportional representation. Times, Sunday Times
You have proportionally more fat on your thighs and hips than anywhere else on your body.
In particular, it scales well as the number of available ballot counters is proportional to the number of voters.
But David Cameron says there is room for cooperation on such issues as education and the environment, and he held out the caret of at least, perhaps, discussing what the Lib Dems really want - voting reform and a switch to proportional representation. 3rd Place Party May Be Real Winner In Britain
These odds are inversely proportional to the amount of your insurance payment.
That style uses the traditional three periods (or, in proportional typefaces, one ellipsis mark) when a quotation is missing a phrase from within a sentence. Archive 2008-05-01
A law found by measurement is necessarily mathematical in form, whence its manipulation by proportionalities will reveal consequences no less certain to be borne out by measurement.
That would be reinforced by the election of members on a proportional basis. Times, Sunday Times
The only kind of consociationalism that might work in Israel and Palestine is confessionalism, which is "a system of government that distributes political and institutional power proportionally among religious communities" - such as in Lebanon. Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table
The fact that it is too technical for the ignoramuses who run the proportional representation society is hardly a relevant argument.
The other acts as a pickup coil producing a voltage proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linking it.
Nuclear weapons seem to violate the just war principle of proportionality.
The amyloins are substances containing varying numbers of amylin (original starch or dextrin) groups in conjunction with a proportional number of maltose groups. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects.
The flowers are protandrous, and larger plants have a lower pollen to ovule ratio than smaller plants, suggesting larger plants invest proportionally more in female function.
He gave a proof of a result due to Maclaurin, that the attractions at an external point lying on the principal axis of two confocal ellipsoids was proportional to their masses.
Importance sampling involves evaluating the integrand at independently sampled realizations from a probability distribution that is roughly proportional to the integrand.
New data, now including AV+, shows how the election results would look different under proportional representation• Get the data• Full general election 2010 results How proportional representation would have changed the general election 2010 result
IRV is a band-aid, trying to fix fatal flaws in proportional representation. Matthew Yglesias » Alternative Voting
While the extendable flaps of indriids and some other primates are proportionally smaller than the patagia of most gliding and flying tetrapods, they are in the same place and seem to serve the same function, so it seems appropriate to give them this name. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
Would that mean proportionality could only be achieved if 15% of the PCs were woman and 5% of those from that particular belief group (perhaps with a margin of acceptable deviance from the mean/median/mode – which average are we using by the way?) I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The area dedicated to recreation during the weekends is inversely proportional to the energy consumed during the week. Archive 2007-05-01
I think the amount they complain is directly proportional to the amount of money they make.
The proportionality constant M is provided and its variation with geometry and Biot number ( ? ? ) is discussed.
Since anethol is the most valuable constituent, and the solidifying point of the oil is roughly proportional to its anethol content, oils with a higher solidifying point are the best. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
Horses differ greatly in their oral cavity, and that difference is not proportional to height at the withers.
This "twitch-reflex", recorded isometrically by the myograph, exhibits a tension proportional to the number of motor units engaged, in other words to the size of the single centrifugal impulse volley. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
After shaking a bottle of Scotch, the length of time the surface bubbles survive is proportional to the proof. Times, Sunday Times
Bacq and Brown22 have more recently extended these observations to a series on artificial eserine analogues, and have found that the potentiating action on the response of mammalian muscle to single nerve volleys is, in fact, proportional, in the different compounds of the series, to the anticholinesterase action, as independently determined. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it. November Trail Cam Contest
Stork notes that pinpricks show that Jan van Eyck's 1432 portrait of Cardinal Albergati was magnified mechanically, with a proportional compass.
Additionally, the proportionality exercise involved focusing on a very specific issue, namely the justification for discrimination. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious. JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
Half of the 400 national representatives would be elected on a constituency basis and the other half by proportional representation.
But any conscious attempt to disregard this proportionality would inflict unnecessary losses and suffering.
We checked the assumption of proportionality by using graphs of the log-log survivor function.
the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
I would discuss the script, say, on proportional representation, and then give him free rein.
Our results are consistent with read number being proportional to fish numbers, but more work is needed on the precise relationship of eDNA and fish abundance. Smithsonian Mag
Those who wished to brew beer for their own household could use the abbey brewery - again upon a proportional payment.
After giving further results of this type he gives his famous result that the distance that a body moves from rest under uniform acceleration is proportional to the square of the time taken.
The country had the lowest incidence of AIDS cases proportional to its population.
A vote in favour will result in the region having an assembly elected by proportional representation consisting of between 25 and 30 members.
As the optical input signal (blue line) to a photodetector increases, the electrical output signal (red line) increases proportionally, and then begins to deviate from linear.
The striking of a fair balance lies at the heart of proportionality.
To divide and distribute proportionally; apportion.
More elaborate forecasting systems might recognize peculiar problems associated with work on particular items and modify these simple proportional cost estimates.
A primer is annealed upstream of the divergent site and extended one base at a time, with the number of nucleotides incorporated at each position proportional to the number of transcripts in the sample.
In between both extremes, there is a range of models of degressive proportionality.
There were more than enough Labour opponents of proportional representation to scupper a deal. Times, Sunday Times
Initial contact will be through a conventional bimolecular binding and occur at a rate proportional to the concentration of freely diffusing molecules.
The amount produced is proportional to the cooking time and accumulates with a second and subsequent heating.
What I said was they were given proportionally, and the member's proportion was correct.
The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to its size.
The vapor flow is proportional to the outlet area as the evaporativity is 100% for the final holes.
In heterodyne SLDV, a scanned laser beam incident on the vibrating test surface undergoes a Doppler radial frequency shift proportional to the instantaneous velocity.
Law 5: The difficulty involved in redeeming a rebate is directly proportional to the dollar value of the rebate. Basic Computer Laws « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
You have proportionally more fat on your thighs and hips than anywhere else on your body.
The pressure of a gas is ( directly ) proportional to its absolute temperature when its volume remains constant.
There must be a reasonable relationship of proportionality between the means employed and the aim sought to be achieved.
One third of the 498 seats will be chosen by a majority system and two thirds by proportional representation. Times, Sunday Times
Thus the term atom indicates not only the constituents of molecules but has a quantitative meaning, the proportional part of the element which enters into compounds. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
You said to the committee that the speaking slots were allocated in terms of proportionality.
Streamlining should include lengthening the probationary period, elevating the standard for moving from nontenured to tenured status, and integrating a growth model of student achievement as a proportional, not primary, piece of the evaluation system. The myth of teacher tenure
In the early summer of 1967, Banzhaf dashed off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission the agency responsible for enforcing the fairness doctrine complaining that a New York TV station was dedicating disproportional airtime to tobacco commercials with no opposing antitobacco commercials. The Emperor of All Maladies
He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls, and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation.
The cash increase is highest in London, yet the proportional increase is higher in the lowest price bands. Times, Sunday Times
I did have one concern, however, in that I did not understand what was going on between pages 135 and 136, when The rotation rate was set to provide one earth gravity for the radius of the fore bulb, but accelerative force was inversely proportional to the radius. Science and Science Fiction: Star Dragon
Such investigations are accordingly inconsistent with the principle of proportionality.
This reduction in airflow rate translates into ductwork and fans being about 20 percent smaller than a conventional system, with proportional construction cost savings.
If the middle latitude be not an even degree, but have odd minutes; find the diiFercnce of longitude, for the even degrees next lefs and greater, and add a proportional part of the difFerence between the two refults to the leiTer; the fum will be the diffe - rence of longitude fought. Mathematical Tables: Containing Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms ...
Brooks argues that sexual minorities experience proportionally more negative life events as a result of living in a sexist, racist, and heterosexist society.
Nowadays the constant of proportionality is known as the Hubble constant.
Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation(Sentencedict), which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
As 10 per cent owner of Venetian Macau, he said he had to put up a proportional share of the company's initial capital of 200 million patacas.
The output should be proportional to the input.
The hour of Franklin's bedtime is directly proportional to the ungodly early hour he wakes up in the morning.
Where there are multiple victims and there are insufficient funds to meet all victims' awards, the available money will be paid out on a proportional basis.
Such a slate is required under the country's electoral system of proportional representation.
In any proportionality inquiry the relevant interests must be identified, and there will be some ascription of weight or value to those interests, since this is a necessary condition precedent to any balancing operation.
One feature that I like is that, if you've selected the ‘fit’ sizing option, it will automatically resize an image that is too large for the screen to the largest proportional size that will fit on the screen.
Loss of weight is directly proportional to the rate at which the disease is progressing.
Some form of proportional representation was the key to ensuring that Scottish Labour could never rule alone - its vestigial leftist tendencies would always be constrained by the need for coalition partners.
He argues that participation in primitive warfare, in proportional terms, is often deadlier than participation in modern warfare.
The price of vineyard land is not directly proportional to the price fetched by grapes grown on it, however.

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