be commensurate
Example Sentences
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"This stemmed from relatively low salaries across the sector, which were not considered to be commensurate with the responsibilities, and qualification requirements for their roles," it said.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2023
“Our policy should be commensurate with the state of our scientific knowledge,” he told the House energy and power subcommittee in 1989.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2022
"I do not want to give you today the level of investment, but it will be commensurate to what the U.S. wants to put in," European Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton told journalists.
From Reuters • Jan. 28, 2022
“Why didn’t we use the time that PPP bought us to design the kind of program that would be commensurate with the national challenge that we’re facing?”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2020
"The main objection was, if they went below 6d., that the new scale of coins would not be commensurate in any finite ratio with anything in this new currency of mils."
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
