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How to use the word proportionally in a Sentence?

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I think there's a false belief that white children make up the biggest number of missing children when in fact( proportionally) it's just the opposite.

Robert Lowery

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need -- not just in my country, but in other countries -- a more progressive tax code. Not confiscatory policy, not socialism, a tax code, everybody pays proportionally a fair share. This is not meant to penalize everybody.

Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They are being worked out, but all will be decided proportionally, reasonably and carefully, let the Americans take care of the supplies as they are there with NATO forces - this is the their problem first of all.

Zamir Kabulov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is over, from now on the minority will not rule the majority. Bashar is not convinced but the Alawites, who sustained (proportionally) the biggest losses in Syria, are. More than 80,000 Alawites from the army and militias have been killed according to registered (death) certificates but the real figures are estimated at 120,000 dead.

Rami Abdulrahman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

However, I am reluctant to take places away from anyone; there should not be a redistribution of seats on the Executive Committee but a commensurate expansion of this body, the key is to strengthen democracy within the ‘FIFA government’. The confederations must be proportionally represented according to the number of member associations they have.

Sepp Blatter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will respond, we'll respond proportionally, and we'll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This article reiterates to us that a lot under that age are riding and continue to die, the younger you are, the more dangerous it is proportionally.

Brendan Campbell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The integrity of states is ruled by the socioeconomic well-being theory. The degree of the stability of any social system is proportional to the degree of its economic growth and vice versa. Stated differently, the risk to national integrity increases proportionally to the country's economic decline.

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

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