They lost their sense of proportion, and the question is whether their government has, too.
Why is it so difficult to get people in government to have a sense of proportion?
He argues that a sense of proportion is needed when it comes to selling Britain abroad.
At a time like this, the task of leadership is to restore a sense of proportion and perspective.
People who do not practice and learn new skills never gain a proper sense of proportion or self-criticism.
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However, The Indian Express said India's government should "maintain a sense of proportion" in its response to Singh's killing.
He lost his sense of proportion - and of the ridiculous: all those alleged red-light parties, Ruby and the rest.
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Shrewd move: The refinement and sense of proportion in these reds should shame the last anti-California wine snob into extinction.
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John Engler, the governor of Michigan, says that those who think it is a crisis have no sense of proportion.
California's prosecutors seem to have discovered a sense of proportion, however.
But just to keep a sense of proportion, it is important to point out it will remain a long way off the highs of the 1980s.
Yet it is important to keep a sense of proportion.
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But can we possibly get a sense of proportion here?
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Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
EU's institutions: not preachy like the Swedes, not difficult like the Danes, not over-ambitious like the Austrians, merely modest and purposeful, matching a sense of principle with a sense of proportion.
What I do believe is that we have to apply judgment and a sense of proportion to how change happens in any society to promote our ideals and our values with some sense of humility.
So are humour and a sense of proportion.
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From Eliot Spitzer's grossly abusing his public powers (behavior sadly imitated by numerous other state and local officials), to the Justice Department's trying to make it impossible for accused executives to get proper defense counseling, to Congress' grandstanding with demagogic hearings to inflame and win favor with the public, the rule of law and that essential sense of proportion are being shredded.
Mike, beneath everything you say there is a clear sense you feel the things being said about you are the way out of proportion to your confessed transgressions.
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