proportionate
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Trans rights campaigners Translucent say that for many trans people the debate is "excruciatingly difficult", that these cases are rare and when rights "clash" then that needs to be handled in a proportionate way.
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However, they added a "proportionate" package of national security mitigations had been developed for the site.
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The Met has said it was confident the use of LFR was lawful and proportionate.
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A judge sitting at Staines Magistrates' Court on Thursday deemed the use of the private jet "not necessary or proportionate".
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A proportionate level of funding will be given to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but it is up to those authorities to decide how the extra money is used.
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