However the cost of labor is often inversely proportional to the overall ease of doing business in a country and Myanmar is no exception.

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"The ability to collaborate is inversely proportional to the distance that separates you, " explains Edward Holmes, the energetic vice chancellor for health sciences at UCSD.

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The phenomenon of attraction between two bodies, proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

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Regrettably, the importance of these elections is inversely proportional to their lack of intensity.

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The degree of social, political, and economic influence a person wields is inversely proportional to that person's inclination to do housework.

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Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.

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The energy of a packet of light -- or "photon" -- is inversely proportional to its wavelength.

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