Get to know Proportionality better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like ratio or proportion.
Proportionality in a sentence
Proportionality meaning
- the property of being proportional
- the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
- the degree to which something is in proportion
Synonyms of Proportionality
Using Proportionality
- The main meaning on this page is: the property of being proportional | the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism) | the degree to which something is in proportion
- Useful related words include: ratio, proportion, balance, placement.
- In the example corpus, proportionality often appears in combinations such as: the proportionality, of proportionality, proportionality between.
Context around Proportionality
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Proportionality
- In this selection, "proportionality" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, strict, demand, law, test, turns and measures stand out and add context to how "proportionality" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as practicality proportionality and questions and back to proportionality. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "proportionality" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, abortive and acacia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with proportionality
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It goes back to proportionality. (5 words)
NO, grace is not measured by inverse proportionality. (8 words)
So proportionality of risk is very considerable,” Ross warned. (9 words)
Although the principle has been into EU treaty law, the proportionality test is not a bright-line rule, but rather a guide for determining how EU competencies can be used in a balanced and reasoned fashion. (36 words)
No one can blame Israel for retribution, but what is materialising in Gaza goes beyond proportionality and the claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that war will continue in 2024 are extremely worrying. (33 words)
It holds state power to account in a way which was historically impossible (for example, through the use of proportionality rather than rationality as a standard by which to judge state action). (32 words)
Whether the violation can be reasonably justified through the application of the proportionality standard? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Now the court majority has found that the Voting Rights Act allowed them to look into effect, so long as it did not impose strict proportionality.
The pictures on the TV screen will be hard to watch and the world will demand proportionality when it comes to the Israeli response.
This all seems arbitrary to me and to have no real bearing on culpability or seriousness or proportionality.
Under international law, proportionality turns entirely on one’s military objective.
It goes back to proportionality.
It holds state power to account in a way which was historically impossible (for example, through the use of proportionality rather than rationality as a standard by which to judge state action).
No one can blame Israel for retribution, but what is materialising in Gaza goes beyond proportionality and the claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that war will continue in 2024 are extremely worrying.
Although the principle has been into EU treaty law, the proportionality test is not a bright-line rule, but rather a guide for determining how EU competencies can be used in a balanced and reasoned fashion.
Case law has refined the proportionality test into three parts: effectiveness, necessity, and a least-restrictive-means assessment.
Necessity and Proportionality: Measures must be necessary and proportionate and, therefore, be science-based, necessary for a specific purpose, tailored to that purpose and likely to be effective.
NO, grace is not measured by inverse proportionality.
Nonetheless, it became an additional source of pressure towards incorporating proportionality more generally in UK law.
Their evolving model is based on past pandemic scenarios and doesn't take into account "other factors such as practicality, proportionality and questions of value for money".
The remaining 200 national (list) seats are used to restore overall proportionality.
To answer these questions, DoD should take four steps to improve our warfighters’ understanding of the effectiveness and proportionality of directed energy deployment.
Fairness in elections, in other words, does not necessarily flow from perfect proportionality.
Maybe using physical proportionality to assume spiritual effectiveness is the great misunderstanding against the Christian Faith.
So proportionality of risk is very considerable,” Ross warned.
There was therefore no “systemic or clear ‘proportionality deficit’ such that it can be said that future use of AFR Locate by the SWP would be inevitably disproportionate”.
Whether the violation can be reasonably justified through the application of the proportionality standard?
Common combinations with proportionality
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the proportionality 12×
- of proportionality 11×
- proportionality between 7×
- proportionality and 5×
- and proportionality 5×
- proportionality test 3×
- proportionality of 3×
- proportionality is 3×
- proportionality constant 3×
- overall proportionality 2×