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• n  a ratio of two quantities that is constant
• n  harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

• If, for example, proportionality requires a school to offer only 100 slots for men's sports and a football team takes up 85 of them, that leaves fewer slots for less fan-friendly .
• It is the first option, the proportionality test, that gets Title IX critics in a lather.
• Death and proportionality "I feel the same way the majority of people in the United States feel about the death penalty," declares Texas Judge Michael McSpadden.

• proportion
• balance

News & Articles

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• Internet monitoring must have proper limits, Merkel tells Obama
  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that government monitoring of Internet communications needed to remain within proper limits. "I made clear that although we do see the need for gathering information, the topic of proportionality is always an important one and the free democratic order is based on people feeling safe," Merkel said at ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Helen Clark in Washington Post
  Neither Rice nor Clark said they had any specific concerns about the safety of US or New Zealand athletes who will compete although Clark said that any disturbances should be "dealt with proportionality and due restraint."
• Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert in European Parliament (press release)
  Having examined the proposed agreement, Ms Hennis-Plasschaert argues that, in view of some of its arrangements for data transfer, it "violates the basic principles of data protection law, ie the principles of necessity and proportionality" and...