Most government regulations do not impose costs that are proportional to the size of the business.
Proportional representation would be required before local business rates could be restored to local determination.
Mr. Schwartz will pay his friends a proportional amount of his winnings, minus 10%.
Romania elects its parliament by proportional representation, so the provisional results point to a hung chamber.
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Under the current proportional system, the new department would be the responsibility of the SDLP.
Because of this, the amount of reaction products is exactly proportional to the light power.
Israel's system of proportional voting has given the settlers and zealots a chokehold over politics.
The introduction of proportional representation, she believes, would bolster confidence and interest in the political system.
In much of continental Europe, various forms of proportional voting produce far muddier results.
The Irish parliament, or Dail, is elected by proportional representation, using the single transferable vote system.
That narrowly scuppered an attempt to introduce proportional representation in British Columbia in 2005.
Sri Lanka's system of proportional representation makes the magical two-thirds majority hard to reach.
Proportional representation in assembly elections has kept both parties visible, even when their popularity was low.
Thirty-two parties were competing under a system of proportional representation for the 120-member Knesset.
Northern Ireland will elect three members under a separate system of proportional representation, the single-transferable vote.
Will each country release the same proportional amount, or will some countries do more?
In democracies with proportional representation (as in continental Europe), maps are not very important.
This change in itself falls far short of the proportional representation that Lib Dems would like.
The benefits of federalism and proportional representation are widely recognised, but hard to deliver.
Regrettably, the importance of these elections is inversely proportional to their lack of intensity.
Next May's elections for the Scottish parliament will take place under a proportional system.
Proportional representation could risk winning the Liberal Democrats not more seats, but fewer votes.
It also has the biggest middle class, proportional to its population, of any African country.
Firstly, the voting system for Westminster elections had to be changed to one based on proportional representation.
The energy of a packet of light -- or "photon" -- is inversely proportional to its wavelength.
Meanwhile, Clinton would continue to rack up almost the same number of delegates based on proportional voting.
The exclusion must be allocated to each item of property with built-in gain on a proportional basis.
The closer you are to full employment, the more likely M increases result in proportional P increases.
Smaller parties have benefited from proportional representation and the low turnout in this year's European Parliamant elections.
Italy's electoral system remains too proportional and no party that counts is showing much interest in dishing it.
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