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
Someone’s need to know classified information was supposed to be commensurate with their degree of access to it, recalled several former senior intelligence officials.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023
All measures should be commensurate with the risk, time-limited and applied with respect to travellers' rights, it said.
From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2021
“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 lapse of time to produce this complete fusion would necessarily be commensurate to the original diversity of the constituent elements.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
