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proportional
adjective as in proportionate
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adjective as in equivalent
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Example Sentences
According to a report on its findings, ICE “routinely isolates people for minor infractions, transforming what should be civil administrative proceedings into punishment systems that operate without criminal conviction, due process protections, or proportional sentencing.”
"We're putting our biggest campaign force we've ever done into the field, because it's a proportional election, we think we can do really well," he said.
The election uses a system of proportional representation known as the Single Transferable Vote.
Norway has a political system involving 19 electoral constituencies based on proportional representation and no party can govern on its own.
He says that Scotland's more proportional voting system for Holyrood means there is potentially a gap for a new "radical left" movement.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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