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  • So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?†   (source)
  • Even the vice president's nose and ears appear proportionally larger—like how a political cartoonist might draw him in caricature.†   (source)
  • It's all simple and beautiful and proportional.†   (source)
  • The means ought to be proportional to the end.†   (source)
  • Without consulting his senior colleagues, he proposed—only forty-eight hours after he had become a member of that august legislative body—that the Republican (Jeffersonian or Democratic) party be given proportional representation on the Governor's council.†   (source)
  • In the case of taxes, it is proportional wealth.†   (source)
  • Proportional representation should be based on State populations.†   (source)
  • If the census was only used to determine proportional taxation, States would want a smaller number.†   (source)
  • Some people want slaves counted for taxation but not counted for proportional representation.†   (source)
  • Let's look at why it may be a good idea to not have proportional representation in the Senate.†   (source)
  • You just played toss with a Noble prizewinner, Georges Charpak, inventor of the multiwire proportional chamber.†   (source)
  • It was far larger than Saphira, large enough to be several hundred years old, and proportionally thicker in its neck, limbs, and tail.†   (source)
  • In February of 1993, the ANC and the South African government agreed to proportional representation in a new government, a cabinet representing various political parties, a transitional executive council, and elections by the end of 1993.†   (source)
  • We knew early on that the government was fiercely opposed to a winnertakes-all Westminster parliamentary system, and advocated instead a system of proportional representation with built-in structural guarantees for the white minority.†   (source)
  • When people join to become one nation, every district should have a proportional share in the government.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the length of service should be somewhat proportional to how much the legislator must know to adequately serve.†   (source)
  • There is another reason federal representation should be somewhat proportional to the comparative wealth of the States.†   (source)
  • In the case of the House of Representatives, proportional representation refers to the personal rights of the people.†   (source)
  • If the census was only used to determine proportional representation, the States would want to exaggerate their population.†   (source)
  • If inequalities arise in some States from duties on specific objects, these probably will be counterbalanced by proportional inequalities in other States from duties on other objects.†   (source)
  • Each State has the same number of votes as their number of members in the US Congress: an equal number (two Senators) and a proportional number (number of Representatives).†   (source)
  • If these principles are true, in a compound republic, with characteristics of both a national and a federal government, that government should have a mixture of proportional and equal representation.†   (source)
  • Proportionally as the brambles and obstacles became harder to see, so did they become easier to feel.†   (source)
  • , and the proportional increase is a mistake.†   (source)
  • They were therefore in universal use among Prince John's courtiers; and the long mantle, which formed the upper garment of the Saxons, was held in proportional derision.†   (source)
  • …of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled…†   (source)
  • I am ready to narrow my own resources and the prospects of my family by binding myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life, and to leave you a proportional capital at my death—nay, to do still more, if more should be definitely necessary to any laudable project on your part.†   (source)
  • As the mind is made intelligent, the capacity of the soul for pure enjoyment is proportionally increased.†   (source)
  • And was it only fancy which induced me to believe that, with the increase of my own firmness, that of my tormentor underwent a proportional diminution?†   (source)
  • Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spider's web, only proportionally louder.†   (source)
  • Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.†   (source)
  • Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader; and as for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles?†   (source)
  • Artificially-induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase.   (source)
    proportional = related in amount
  • He grabbed the bald man's arm and tore him away from Murtagh with strength disproportional to his size.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportional reverses the meaning of proportional. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • Some security experts noted that the countries that nurture terrorists are disproportionally those where women are marginalized.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionally reverses the meaning of proportionally. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionality reverses the meaning of proportionality. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • The other interior objects will require a proportional degree of information with regard to them.†   (source)
  • * *detestable villainy* His tables Toletanes <19> forth he brought, Full well corrected, that there lacked nought, Neither his collect, nor his expanse years, Neither his rootes, nor his other gears, As be his centres, and his arguments, And his proportional convenients For his equations in everything.†   (source)
  • Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate; yet so Perhaps thou shalt not die, perhaps the fact Is not so heinous now, foretasted fruit, Profaned first by the serpent, by him first Made common, and unhallowed, ere our taste; Nor yet on him found deadly; yet he lives; Lives, as thou saidst, and gains to live, as Man, Higher degree of life; inducement strong To us, as likely tasting to attain Proportional ascent; which cannot be But to be Gods, or Angels, demi-Gods.†   (source)
  • In addition to this, it is to be observed that there is a probability of an increase in the number of States, and no provision for a proportional augmentation of the ratio of votes.†   (source)
  • If inequalities should arise in some States from duties on particular objects, these will, in all probability, be counterbalanced by proportional inequalities in other States, from the duties on other objects.†   (source)
  • If indeed it be right, that among a people thoroughly incorporated into one nation, every district ought to have a PROPORTIONAL share in the government, and that among independent and sovereign States, bound together by a simple league, the parties, however unequal in size, ought to have an EQUAL share in the common councils, it does not appear to be without some reason that in a compound republic, partaking both of the national and federal character, the government ought to be founded…†   (source)
  • …nation, every district ought to have a PROPORTIONAL share in the government, and that among independent and sovereign States, bound together by a simple league, the parties, however unequal in size, ought to have an EQUAL share in the common councils, it does not appear to be without some reason that in a compound republic, partaking both of the national and federal character, the government ought to be founded on a mixture of the principles of proportional and equal representation.†   (source)
  • Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.†   (source)
  • If the resources of such part becoming more abundant and extensive, its provisions should be proportionally enlarged, the other States would quickly take the alarm at seeing the whole military force of the Union in the hands of two or three of its members, and those probably amongst the most powerful.†   (source)
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