6 sentences with 'proportional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proportional and other words derived from it.
• « In turn, voting was by estates, not by proportional representation, and the first and second estates generally joined together to outvote the third. Thus, the small minority of the population consisting of nobles and clerics could always outvote the majority of the population in this traditional voting system. »
• « The Weimar republic's constitution stipulated that the vote was proportional, and the popular vote translated into a corresponding number of seats for the various political parties. Unfortunately, given the wide range of political allegiances present in German society, there were thirty-two different parties, representing not only elements of the left and right political spectrum, but also regional and religious identities. »
• « So far only a few hundred terracotta objects have been extracted, but a proportional calculation based on the vastness of the archaeological area is possible to imagine the dimensions of the find. »
• « As we move away from Pluto at a speed inversely proportional to that of our arrival, we will speed past two planets so far from Earth that they appear as tiny discs in telescopes: Neptune and Uranus. »
• « As the government owned a lot of land suitable for work, it was decided to give it to those who wished to exploit it in exchange for paying an annual sum of money, proportional to its value. »
• « This proportional representation gave more political power to more populous states, such as Virginia. The Virginia Plan also provided for an executive branch and a judiciary, which did not exist in the Articles of Confederation. »