more proportionate
Example Sentences
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According to Matthias Schmidt of Schmidt Automotive Research, this would be a rather more proportionate response than the US move.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2024
He said he would keep a promise to reduce the U.K.’s emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050, but “in a better, more proportionate way.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The group said that it supported the shift to a more proportionate tax system related to the strength of drinks, but it argued that the duty rates were still set too low.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
For the sake of belabored argument, though, let’s say your mistakes are bigger than you make them out to be, and his responses are kinder and more proportionate.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2023
She fumed a little, breathed rather heavily, as if with an effort of mind rather than of body; for she had grown much stouter and yet little more proportionate.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by John Cournos
