They lost their sense of proportion, and the question is whether their government has, too.

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Why is it so difficult to get people in government to have a sense of proportion?

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He argues that a sense of proportion is needed when it comes to selling Britain abroad.

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At a time like this, the task of leadership is to restore a sense of proportion and perspective.

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People who do not practice and learn new skills never gain a proper sense of proportion or self-criticism.

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John Engler, the governor of Michigan, says that those who think it is a crisis have no sense of proportion.

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California's prosecutors seem to have discovered a sense of proportion, however.

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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.

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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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Before long, Mr Gore is losing his sense of proportion.

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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.

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Sound policy starts with a sense of proportion.

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But a sense of proportion is required here.

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Underlying the report is a sense of proportion.

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So are humour and a sense of proportion.

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But let us keep a sense of proportion.

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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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