How To Use Proportionate In A Sentence

But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present. Synthetic Tannins
Managerial and middle-class occupations are over-represented in its ranks, while the working class is proportionately under-represented.
Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
Scotland, as ever playing a disproportionate role in scientific breakthroughs, has had a significant part in the biogenetic revolution.
The price increases are proportionate to the increases in the costs of production.
The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
Readings take up a disproportionate amount of my time and, more importantly, emotional energy, I find.
Representatives from the Knights of Pythias secular fraternity were not able to offer insight into the disproportionate number of Jewish names on the plague. Laura Silver: On Veterans, Crosses And Shields
Sanctions that were effective, proportionate and dissuasive had to be applied. Times, Sunday Times
Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana.
The adult fish attains a length of three feet and proportionate weight normally and has a life span of 20 years.
In California, for example, a disproportionately high number of Hispanic teens are giving birth.
These developments are having marked negative impacts on women at work, for they are disproportionately represented in casual employment, with high rates of casualisation in feminised industries.
In this context and as stated, punishment must be proportionate to the circumstances of the crime.
The overclass generally manage to pay less tax - proportionately, at least - than the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
What we are good at is proportionate to how much time we put into it.
JD (S) leader M C Nanaiah said Palemarâ€ ™ s SO P B Belagavi was raided by the Lokayukta in 2002 for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income and was later suspended. The Times of India
As the roast darkens, caffeine and acidity decrease proportionately.
The same argument holds if some section of the population hold a disproportionate amount of wealth and power - you essentially get a de facto aristocracy.
Here on Boing Boing, you'll see that terms like "bukkake" and "anal" rank disproportionately high in our stat logs, relative to the number of times we actually use them in our posts (bats eyelashes innocently). Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
The Irish educate proportionately more young people to university level than the British.
Participation in Christ is an instance of communion that opens believers to proportionate participation in all of the dimensions we have discussed.
The law should not pursue those allegedly guilty of minor, inadvertent or technical crimes decades ago, because to do so is disproportionate and oppressive.
She could tell by his uneven gait, the way he swung out both of his arms with a disproportionate vigour. BEHINDLINGS
The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
They are disproportionately poor, undereducated, unemployed and more likely to end their own lives.
The penalties should be proportionate to the gravity of the offence.
Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession. Booker Rising
By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources.
The wives of US servicemen who were exposed to Agent Orange gave birth to a disproportionate number of deformed babies.
Rivals complain that Murphy has disproportionate amounts of cash with which to distort the market.
In speaking of criminal justice it states that the punishment should be ‘proportionate to the gravity of the offense’ and that it may avail to expiate the guilt of the offender.
Making travel safer will not necessarily reduce the number of casualties if there is a disproportionate increase in the amount of travel.
We spend a disproportionate amount of our income on rent.
They sense the little people are disproportionately copping it again.
When such cases are found, it remains to be shown that the child so reared is proportionately benefited by this unremittent devotion of its mother. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
It was conceived in response to the disproportionate number of entertainers who have collaborated in some capacity with English pop-icon David Bowie only to later suffer premature deaths, varying only in the degree of their hideosity.
The windows of these Victorian rooms were large, plain and disproportionate to the original (whose front they extended). IN LOVE AND WAR
Cowman said the levy would have a disproportionate effect on independent brokers, compared to bigger players such as banks who could build these costs into their charges to consumers.
The proportionate postage from this commerce, even at the ratio of the present West Indian postage, to and from Great Britain and her West Indian colonies, would be 110,000_l. _ yearly; but admitting that a sum equal to _one-half_ only of _this sum_ came from the letters sent through the British Post Office, the sum gained on this station yearly would be 55,000_l. A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World
A number of directors have purchased tranches of the shares to maintain their proportionate interests in the enlarged share capital.
This looks after the maintenance and levies an annual charge which is divided among the owners proportionately.
MDA disproportionates to dehydroascorbate and AsA if it is not immediately reduced.
Sonia is a freak, and a picture of Sonia whose face bears the manifestations of the congenital syndrome that afflicts her oblique palpebral fissures, I have learned they are called, epicanthal folds, and a mouth that is disproportionately small will serve as a constant reminder to Dad that he created for the second time in his life a child with physical and mental imperfections. A Traitor to Memory
The area contains a disproportionate number of young middle-class families.
The tread and riser of each step is proportionately different so that consecutive steps require slightly different muscular effort, which Steele thought would reduce fatigue.
Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society. Climate Progress
There has to be uniformity in the monthly charges, which should be proportionate to what a consumer gets to watch.
Dum-dum bullets, chemical and biological weapons are banned outright on the basis that the military benefits of their use can never be proportionate to the suffering caused.
In fact, at this time it seems that the English still persisted in rapiers and daggers of disproportionate length which were certainly disappearing elsewhere.
The distrust and the disproportionateness in the process of employment remained even after the change of state politics in 2001.
In youth, affronts to their dignity or pride are often met with disproportionate anger, and sometimes with revenge.
Large and medium companies in the genres of ballet and modern dance are disproportionately well represented by this data.
Apart from an absolute moral imperative, trends such as outsourcing and just-in-time production compel the international community to make sure that no part of the world suffers disproportionately.
Where the funds are going, and as Rose Ferlita so clearly pointed out in her arguments, the generosity to areas that disproportionately "augment" private business enterprise eg, sports authority beneficiaries, does not demonstrate a magnitude of benefit to justify the level in increased expenditure and are therefore ... inappropriate when other services are being left ... WN.com - Financial News
But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results.
For hospitals in border states, a disproportionate number of these indigent ER patients are illegal immigrants.
“The inclination of the axis of the earth is so duly proportionated for the making it as habitable as it can be, that the wit of man cannot imagine any posture better” (p. 162). COSMIC FALL
The disproportionate population of samurai attracted vast numbers of retailers, craftsmen and servants to service the large and wealthy consumer market.
If ever there was a case of blatant discrimination, it has been in the disproportionate allocation of Hostess marketing dollars to the lily-white Twinkie and the benign neglect of the chocolate Ho Ho. Al Checchi: Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Rise and Fall of the Twinkie
The windows of these Victorian rooms were large, plain and disproportionate to the original (whose front they extended). IN LOVE AND WAR
He did not like so much the unproportionate blows that Don Belianis gave and took in fight; for, as he imagined, were the surgeons never so cunning that cured them, yet was it impossible but that the patient his face and all his body must remain full of scars and tokens. The First Part. I. Wherein Is Rehearsed the Calling and Exercise of the Renowned Gentleman, Don Quixote of the Mancha
The price increases are proportionate to the increases in the costs of production.
These jobs are disproportionately concentrated in the service sector.
I had a disproportionately large head with a big broad forehead that earned me the nickname “moonface,” from my own family. Honey, You Just Have to Accept that You're Big-boned - Tres Leches Cupcakes
We have significantly increased the number of people in education but the size of the classes hasn't changed proportionately.
So I guess we've all spent a disproportionate amount of time in the three second-hand shops.
Singles, being cheaper, were purchased disproportionately by the adenoidal set. Singles Might Save the Music Industry
Their immediate emotional response is often proportionate to the degree of exposure to the trauma.
Claire Light writes Those who read slush know although it's not cool to talk about in these terms that the submissions from women and poc are often disproportionately sucky, which is sometimes why even the proportions of women and poc who submit aren't reflected in the proportions of women and poc actually published. Nick Mamatas' Journal
Nevertheless, it is widely believed that that current laws disproportionately and unfairly favour women.
A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
There is a disproportionate reduction of serous acini of the submucosal glands, which contain lysozyme, lactoferrin, and an antiprotease of small molecular weight.
Women are disproportionately employed in the so-called atypical workforce of part-timers, temporary workers, and homeworkers.
Precisely because prison is an instrument of punishment in the retributivist view, and retributive punishment must be proportionate in some reprobative way to the degree of harm which the offender caused, a retributive sentence of imprisonment must not be excessive, must have definite limits. Prisons & Punishment
Moreover, the seriousness of the sanction must be proportionate to the damage sustained by the worker.
There has to be uniformity in the monthly charges, which should be proportionate to what a consumer gets to watch.
The latter disproportionates to H 2 O 2 and O2.
As I went off to dig them out I could feel a disproportionate sense of excitement building up in me. THE EXECUTION
You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
Having a similar effect as write-downs, share buy-backs also normally depress shareholders' equity proportionately far more than they depress earnings.
African-American women who are addicted to illicit substances are disproportionately over-represented in jails, prisons, and treatment programs.
Therefore a gradually decreasing infant mortality rate has led to a proportionate decrease in the size of our brains.
The exams now consist disproportionately of no-brainers like: ‘When you were in school, were you a member of a sports team?’
Just six months later the anoles were almost exclusively tree-dwelling, and longer-legged lizards had died in disproportionate numbers.
Over these thirteen days, we have learned that no one supports corporations' disproportionate influence in the political sphere.
The proposal is doubly unfair, in that the same parents who would now be surcharged have already contributed disproportionately to the university system through their taxes.
He seemed determined to justify a course of action which seemed wholly disproportionate.
Some killer CraigsList What The Effies for you: just want big boobs, he likes them "pendulous" and "disproportionately large. The Burgh Blog
We must all understand what takes up a disproportionate amount of the available police resources we all call for.
Meantime, after criticizing Israel for using what it called disproportionate force in Lebanon, the European Union said it was planning a peace mission. CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2006
It partakes in a proportionate measure of the powers, properties, and relations of its archeus: accordingly, the antagonist or harmonizing contrast of olive is Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
What we have seen over the past few weeks is the hate crimes against the Muslims themselves has risen unproportionate level, 600 percentage. CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2005
The government devotes a disproportionate share of the budget to military expenditure.
The poverty-stricken widow always congratulated herself upon its conclusion, and it never occurred to her that the amount of work that Birt did in the tanyard was a disproportionately large return for the few days that the tanner's mule ploughed their little fields. Down the Ravine
Final Salary schemes are also disproportionately weighted by gender.
The result can be disproportionately strong governments whose power flows from American money and weaponry.
But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
They took up a disproportionate amount of teachers' time and caused unreasonable stress.
That is, some researchers have assumed that the prevalence of patrilocality and polygyny in relation to matrilocality and polyandry, combined with the structural fact that the X is disproportionately carried in females, can explain the differences in patterns of genetic variation. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Revenue from supporters is proportionately far less important than it was even 10 years ago, so the Premiership clubs care a little less about your petty gripes and whinges.
The number of accidents is proportionate to the increased volume of traffic.
A disproportionately high percentage of ballots later discarded for one reason or another were cast by minorities, as high as 31 percent in some precincts.
As I went off to dig them out I could feel a disproportionate sense of excitement building up in me. THE EXECUTION
For the middle class, its income has not shown a proportionate upward trend.
And bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the Senate, called the Creating Hope Act, would offer drug makers another financial incentive — a voucher promising fast FDA evaluation of their next blockbuster drug in return for developing a therapy for a rare or neglected disease that disproportionately affects children. Push to spur more drugs for deadly rare diseases
In fact, I would be supportive of reasonable and proportionate measures to sustain and promote it.
Rotaries extract disproportionate power from small capacity engines and, because they need no pistons, valves, camshafts and belts, are free-revving and smooth as velvet.
You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
Unilever said it had been given time to prepare for the action, which it described as "disproportionate", but unions claimed the walkouts would hit production of brands including Persil, PG Tips, Marmite, Pot Noodle, Lynx, Flora and Wall's ice cream. Unilever workers go on strike over pensions
Just as fuel consumption grows disproportionately as speeds rise, so does the emission of air pollutants.
She took long breaks for costume changes and behaved skittishly, giving her backing singers a disproportionate amount of vocals. Whitney Houston
The Sheikh's willingness to spend disproportionate amounts of money for certain objects has astonished the art world.
And the Palestinian diaspora is perhaps even more disproportionately people with individuals whose property was stolen by the state of Israel in 1948. The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza
At home, although the man in our house is outnumbered 3: 1, I would say that the women speak a disproportionate amount of the time (none of usis agreat chatterer, though, our house is more likely to be silent rather than filled with conversation by either gender). March 2009
Unfortunately, a proportionate increase in the number of my least favourite motorists appears also to have occurred.
The drop in Maori unemployment on a proportionate basis has been most impressive.
So the Agency's approach to participation was proportionate and it is on those grounds that we submit there should be two sets of costs.
The body is dumpy, tapering to an acorn-shaped posterior; the legs are very long, resembling those of the spider when outspread; the hinder legs are disproportionately long and curved, being thus excellently adapted to enlace and press the little pilule of dung. Social Life in the Insect World
In particular, the funding that is provided for television and radio broadcasts is paid out on a proportionate basis - the larger the party, the more money it gets and the more time it gets.
It would argue a disproportionateness, a want of balance, in Desdemona, which Shakespeare does not appear to have in the least contemplated. '[ Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
A presidential council would be formed whose membership would be proportionate to the majority Greek population.
She could tell by his uneven gait, the way he swung out both of his arms with a disproportionate vigour. BEHINDLINGS
This process manifests itself in a certain attitude that seems to be ingrained in a disproportionate number of Scottish acts.
JAZZAR: It does not justify the Israeli attacks and this unproportionate, you know, and this collective punishment that we have had. CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2006
The equity method is to establish the proportionate relationship between the long-term equity investment account of the investor and the net assets of the invested.
It is clear that by continuing to recruit disproportionately from the more affluent groups in society, higher education is exacerbating social class divides.
It is therefore exposed to a disproportionately high dose of chemicals at a critical moment of its development.
A high profile function is directly proportionate to the hugeness of the lamp in this part of the State.
The pre-emptive action has to be proportionate to the significance and imminence of the threat.
However, the change in tone of the Oscar ceremony disproportionately affects what the women will wear if ballroom gowns are disdained.
A child of the Midwest grows up in Middle America, thrives, receives disproportionate attention and investment from the community, realizes his or her potential and then moves away to a "sunnier" state in his or her prime. David Gray: What LeBron James' Decision Means for the Midwest
We have significantly increased the number of people in education but the size of the classes hasn't changed proportionately.
ACH is characterized by disproportionate short stature, where the limbs are shorter than the trunk, and macrocephaly (excessive head size).
Thus, members of this list should be alert to the fact that the title notwithstanding, this book focuses heavily and disproportionately on the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. MRZine.org
Considering the technical complexities required, televised science fiction has frequently earned less than proportionately balanced critical response.
It is vulnerable children who suffer disproportionately when these services fail.
It's received a wholly disproportionate amount of attention just because of his name.
Their stories of disproportionate, unmerited suffering demand that when sufferers cannot feel the companionship of God, we try to assure them of it.
Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.
osmotic pressure" in solutions which are sufficiently dilute is proportionate to the concentration and the absolute temperature so that this pressure can be represented by a formula which only deviates from the formula for gas pressure by a coefficient Jacobus H. van 't Hoff - Biography
A disproportionately high number of signatories belonged to the intelligentsia or the officer corps.
The Act of 1988 was not disproportionate to the legitimate end to be achieved. 107.
MUS AEQUICAUDALIS. of Hodgson, described in Horsfield's Catalogue as pure dark brown above, with a very slight cast of rufescent in a certain aspect; underneath from the chin to the vent, with interior of thighs, yellowish-white; ears nearly an inch long; head proportionately long Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
While I do have somewhat of an issue with the fact that this would be a regressive tax that would fall disproportionately on the poor, the concept is a sound one.
An interim analysis of vaccine trial data submitted to the FDA11 showed a disproportionate, but not statistically significant, number of cases of grade 2 or 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia related to nonvaccine HPV types among vaccinated women. Is 70% Good Enough?
For someone with what you might call a small social circle, I get invited to a disproportionate amount of weddings.
Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a disproportionate amount of influence.
In a country which is invariably ruled by coalitions, a small number of seats can buy a disproportionate amount of power.
The punishment should be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of culpability of the offender.
The reality is that Americahas a disproportionate number, though still a minority, of very heavily armed people.
Well, okay, it's still pretty ridiculous-and no less so just because in relation to his overall body mass, Tanuki's scrotum is proportionately larger than the scrota of elephants, whales, and the Jolly Green Giant. Villa Incognito
The sad thing about this ill-considered (but well-intentioned) proposal is that both problem and social drinkers will spend more on booze (and as alkies have a relatively inelastic demand curve for booze they will spend proportionately more than the rest), leaving less money for food and rent. In praise of the SNP
Additional rent was payable by way of accruing amounts for proportionate share of realty taxes, utilities, insurance premiums and other common expenses, making the Respondents creditors of the Tenants.
Military action was neither proportionate nor the last resort.
When you read the paper, their main claim is that white players benefit disproportionately from white refs (although blacks also see a smaller benefit). Matthew Yglesias » Race and the Whistle
He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur. Heretics
California bears a disproportionate amount of the cost of illegal immigration.
Smokers do afterall contribute very heavily to the taxation revenue of this country and disproportionately so.
Diabetes affects older people and racial minorities disproportionately.
The Inspection department's role is to ensure that quality standards are properly maintained, without incurring disproportionate costs.
Nigeria's government is deploring what it calls a disproportionate use of force by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Nigerians Moving to Evacuate Nationals from Libya
Of course, pseudologia fantastica also fits the bill...which is just the fancy name for pathological lying, which to quote from the link "is falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime. Archive 2009-05-01
The equity method is to establish the proportionate relationship between the long-term equity investment account of the investor and the net assets of the invested.
Each, in its disproportionate way, affirms the truth of evolution.
A disproportionate number of new entrants have been based in England, particularly the south.
May develop genu valgus or varus deformity at knee if there is a disproportionate loss of cartilage on one side.
One paradox is that the Canadian shows that do get good numbers often flourish in the regions, but the official tastemakers disproportionately speak from Toronto.
The cruise tries to keep the bookings balanced, with a proportionate ratio of men and women.
That can take up a disproportionate amount of time and there is therefore less time spent on the business of teaching and learning.
Blumer explored a tangent of the conspiracy, that minority-owned Chrysler dealers were disproportionately spared from closure. Terry Krepel: Right-Wing Media Won't Concede Obama-Chrysler Dealer Conspiracy Is Bogus
There are 9.6 million bank accounts, a disproportionate amount for the country, but these are accounted for by recent growth in debit cards and cashless salary payments.
However, the Local Government Management Services Board has cautioned that the figures can be disproportionately affected by a small number of long term absences.
Given the disproportionate casualty rate among males compared to females in the military and the current “gender apartheid” in the Armed Forces, surely an ameliorative affirmative action draft is in order? The Volokh Conspiracy » Diane Wood on the Second Amendment
‘A second cut against the King's Division of Northern England would be grossly disproportionate, very wasteful of highly trained infantrymen and lead to overmanning and redundancies.’
They took up a disproportionate amount of teachers' time and caused unreasonable stress.
Play is now restricted or curtailed with the par reduced and handicaps proportionately trimmed.
The next day, one of these emailers responded that he thought my reply was disproportionate to the offensiveness of his email; I agreed and apologized for having reacted inappropriately.
Hence, the disproportionateness of his reactions.
But should they exceed the contract price then the 11 per cent. was to be proportionately decreased by an arranged sliding scale, provided, however, that Van Hattum and Co. did not _exceed the specification by more than 100 per cent. _, in which latter case the The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
Mr. O'Connor simply shook his head, and looked sadly upon his limbs, now shrouded in a superfluity of garments, somewhat resembling a slender thread of water in a shallow summer stream, nearly wasted away, and surrounded by an unproportionate extent of channel. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
The huge burden feeds through to small businesses in a disproportionate way.
Any reasonable award of damages is likely to be so low in comparison to the costs of a trial that those costs will be entirely disproportionate to the issues at stake for the parties.
No country in the developed world diagnoses and medicates its children in numbers proportionate to the United States, and poor children in our country are given psychotropic drugs four times as often as middle class children. Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.: The Economic Disparity of Children's Mental Health Care
This displacement effect also had a gendered component, as women disproportionately entered the fastest growing occupations.
The cheaper end of the hospitality industry includes a disproportionate number of lifestylers who offer bed and breakfast to make some pocket money.
The inconsistency and disproportionateness which has been occasioned in our sentiments of benevolence, offers a curious moral phenomenon.
The attention paid to young artists in recent decades has grown increasingly disproportionate, for no good reason apart from the follow-my-leader media circus which keeps their antics before an increasingly bored and bewildered (if not downright cynical) public. Closely guarded secret
When hand-like or cheliform structures occur in the Crustacea, these are usually more strongly developed in the males than in the females, often becoming enlarged in the former to quite a disproportionate size, as we have already seen to be the case in Melita. Facts and Arguments for Darwin
Like all patients, Carla smells overenthusiasm with deep suspicion: a doctor who raves disproportionately about small victories is the same doctor who might be preparing his patient for some ultimate defeat. The Emperor of All Maladies
It said the reprimand made it Israel on Tuesday over what it called the discourteous treatment of its minister of fueling anti-Semitism with his criticism of Israel, officials said Tuesday, threatening to spark a Israel and Turkey have indicated that they have overcome the diplomatic row between their countries and are working for better relations peace in the region and using disproportionate force against Palestinians. WN.com - Articles related to Zardari books fast train to Turkey
Consultants' caseloads are mounting inexorably and technical complexity is increasing while junior support declines, both proportionately and in terms of doctor hours.
Steven Leer makes it sound as if barging is clean and green because it pollutes less and uses proportionately less energy than do competing means of shipping bulk commodities. Letters
If you need more liquid, just increase the amounts proportionately.
They suddenly found out that they had spend a disproportionate amount of their money on clothing.

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