Any really representative government would be elected with at least an element of proportionality.
But governments have a duty to acquire as much information as they can consistent with that proportionality.
On numerous occasions Israel aborted planned attacks against known terrorists because they no longer met the test of proportionality.
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Some people believe that the proportionality assumption about radiation should be made because it gives a "conservative" estimate of possible risks.
"Drone attacks do raise serious questions about compliance with international law, in particular the principle of distinction and proportionality, " Ms Pillay said.
It means that the decision is one of proportionality - is a breach of an individual's human rights necessary in the national interest?
It's a model that would put a stop to any kind of proportionality and would, they admit, give Labour a clear electoral gain.
The resolution also demanded that Israel immediately end its lawful maritime blockade of the Gaza coast and slammed Israel for violating the principle of proportionality.
It does, however, require an armed force to assess the proportionality of its actions, by measuring their anticipated military advantage against the likelihood of civilian harm.
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For more than a century, the global communities worked to develop rules that govern conflicts among nations, including concepts of proportionality, and distinction between combatants and civilians.
The commission recommends that the proportion of top-up members needed for broad proportionality without imposing a coalition habit on the country should be between 15% and 20%.
On proportionality, the numbers speak for themselves up to a point.
The barrister told the BBC "ringleaders should receive very long sentences" but warned "there was an issue of proportionality" over the way people already before the courts had been treated.
Some sort of proportionality test seems likely, whereby English courts can assert jurisdiction only if a significant share of sales (10% is one figure being bandied about) are in England.
So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality.
He addresses such questions as: May a State ever respond to a computer network attack by exercising a right of national self-defense? and: Must attacks adhere to the principle of proportionality?
"The question is proportionality, " said Dr. Kevin Schulman, director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and one of the study authors.
Mr Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said the committee had raised "a number of serious criticisms - not least on scope, proportionality, cost, checks and balances, and the need for much wider consultation".
We know that we can be precise, and the professionalism of our combatants allows them to easily meet the standards of proportionality and distinction (between combatants and noncombatants) in such strikes, despite claims to the contrary.
Mrs May quoted one judge, who had declined to deport a foreign criminal, as having said that "Parliament has not altered the legal duty of the judge determining appeals to decide on proportionality for him or herself".
Not least of these is how cyber operations across national borders are dealt with by the laws of armed conflict and their reliance on principles such as proportionality, neutrality, distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and military necessity.
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This might include inserting a proportionality test for EAWs to weed out trivial cases and giving judges more discretion to refuse extradition when grave human-rights concerns arise, as urged by Fair Trials International, which campaigns for extradition reform.
The ATTP then goes on in Paragraphs 1-5 through 1-11 to explain the requirements of the law of armed conflict, the principle of military necessity, the principle of distinction, the principle of proportionality, and the principle of humanity.
They are based on a theory that assumes proportionality in the way that radiation increases the likelihood of cancer a theory that has never been tested, will not be tested in the foreseeable future, and which is known to fail for leukemia.
The United States already conducts warfare under the norms of centuries of practice of customary international law in areas such as military necessity and proportionality, as well as the norms to which we committed ourselves when we became party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter.
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