10 QUOTES WITH «PROPORTIONAL»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
proportional.
You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROPORTIONAL»
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proportional in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
proportional and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Real Choices/new Voices: How
Proportional Representation ...
Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
2
Proportional Hazards Regression
This book focuses on the theory and applications of a very broad class of models proportional hazards and non-proportional hazards models, the former being viewed as a special case of the latter which underlie modern survival analysis.
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A Mathematical Approach to
Proportional Representation: ...
`This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors' Introduction). This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish economist Duncan Black.
Duncan Black, Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan, 1996
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Citizenship and Democracy: A Case for
Proportional ...
Former MLA Nick Loenen examines what proportional representation can do for Canadian politics.
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Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and ...
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy.
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Control System Principles and Design
Proportional Control and Basic Feedback System- Design Procedures 9.1
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PROPORTIONAL CONTROL By definition,
the ideal proportional controller has for the transfer function G\ in Fig. 2.1 the
simple ...
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Proportional Optimization and Fairness
The book argues that apportionment theory and optimization based on deviation functions provide natural benchmarks for a process, and then looks at the recent research and developments in the field.
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Co-planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain: ...
This is especially beneficial for clinical studies, electroencephalographic investigations, and statistical computations.
Jean Talairach, Pierre Tournoux, 1988
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The Politics of Representation: Election Campaigning and ...
In this important new book, an international team of experts critically examines issues of democratic representation in three culturally diverse nations whose governments are elected under systems of proportional representation - New ...
Christina Holtz-Bacha, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, 2004
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New Zealand adopts
proportional representation: accident? ...
This book offers valuable insights into how and why change came about.
William Keith Jackson, Alan McRobie, 1998
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROPORTIONAL»
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proportional is used in the context of the following news items.
MDC proportional MPs safe, says VP Mnangagwa
VICE President Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has allayed fears some MDC-T MPs and senators elected to the house through proportional representation in ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Jun 15»
Time for proportional representation in the House of Lords
When the UK was given the opportunity to adopt a proportional representation electoral system in the 2011, it was notable only for the lack of enthusiasm from ... «The Conversation UK, May 15»
Lessons from the UK: why Canada needs proportional representation
Contrast this to a proportional voting system – and there are various types – in which the number of elected members is “proportional” to the number of votes a ... «The Vancouver Observer, May 15»
UK poll shows proportional representation is better
The sweeping triumph would not have been so decisive had the election been based on proportional representation as adopted by most European countries. «The Nation, May 15»
The case for proportional representation in the UK just became clearer
There is a strong argument that the 2015 results are perverse and that electoral reform – such as some kind of proportional representation, where the number of ... «The Conversation UK, May 15»
FactCheck: what would parliament look like under Proportional …
In the run-up to the election some experts were predicting that this could be one of the least “proportional” polls ever, meaning that the proportion of ... «Channel 4 News, May 15»
What would Britain look like under Proportional Representation?
When Britain was last a multi-party system (in the 1920s and '30s), election outcomes were not very proportional. At that time, there was a vigorous debate about ... «Washington Post, May 15»
Proportional Representation in Britain's Voting System Is Fairer
Some people worry that a more proportional voting system would allow extremists to enter Parliament. Certainly democracy is about giving everyone a say and if ... «New York Times, May 15»
What would UK elections look like under proportional representation?
Under PR, larger parties can also gain an advantage depending on the particular threshold although it does still give a more proportional result than FPTP. «The News Hub, May 15»
Mixed-Member Proportional System
The introduction of a German-style mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system under the new constitution will potentially lead to a coalition government, ... «The Nation, Apr 15»
