It's inversely proportional to R.

It's inversely proportional to taxes.

A logical solution would be to scrap the proportional component of the electoral system altogether, and move decisively toward a two party political system under fully majoritarian elections. But that is unlikely.

Proportional representation in primary and secondary education

The National Assembly is composed of 92 men and women representatives, elected by universal, equal, direct, free and secret suffrage, under the system of proportional representation.

There was renewed debate on the single non transferable vote electoral system chosen provided for in the original electoral law, with some political figures favouring proportional representation.

This is not about overwhelming force, but proportional force.

Should Nepal adopt a parliamentary system, an executive presidency, or some combination of the two? Should it employ the British first past the post electoral system traditionally used on the Indian subcontinent, or should it institute a form of proportional representation?

Seven parties and 185 candidates were vying for places in Nagorno Karabakh's fourth parliament, with two thirds of the parliament's 33 seats to be elected directly and one third under a proportional system.

Enables a proportional view of directories and files based on file size

This comes at a high cost to taxpayers and produces no proportional benefits.

Reparation should be proportional to the gravity of the violations and the harm suffered.

Reparation should be proportional to the gravity of the violations and the harm suffered.

And I'm thinking, Oh yeah, the square root of the length is proportional to its period.

We must ensure that humanitarian assistance is provided on a non discriminatory, well balanced and proportional basis.

And I'm making the size of the bubble proportional to the amount of money that countries spent on students.

Reiterates that UNDP must ensure that each source of funding covers its proportional share of management and programme support

And the size of the dots is going to be proportional to how many of their friends have the flu.

The number of muffins that you'll receive will be inversely proportional to the number of times you talk on IRC.

The Plan is maintained by premiums from field staff and proportional contributions from UNHCR, as well as by interest income.

The primary goal of continues to be the proportional representation of women in influential positions in all sections of society.

Election to the Senate of Pakistan is conducted on the basis of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.

Every dot is a person. We make the dot size proportional to people's body size so bigger dots are bigger people.

The increase of interest of political, scientific and academic circles in the work of the Commission would be proportional to its workload.

While it would definitely constitute an interference with the human right to physical integrity, as a proportional measure it would not constitute CIDT.

Unstable coalition governments have been typical of Italy's postwar politics. In an attempt to solve the problem, a mixed electoral system was introduced in the early 1990's, with about three quarters of the seats assigned under plurality rule in single member districts and the rest allocated under proportional representation.

Nationalist polled only 31.9 of the votes cast with parties supporting the union polling 59.6 . Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

In 2004, the Medical Insurance Plan received total income of 3,754,260 from staff premiums and proportional contributions from UNHCR and 258,710 in interest earned.

And the harder he squeezes you see a little black thing in the middle that's pushing on his skin proportional to how hard he squeezes.

Basically the homunculus is the visualization of a human being where each part of the body is proportional to the surface it takes in the brain.

For the improvement of the living conditions of the children and of the services offered to them, the parents pay a fee, proportional to their family income.

The Proportional Representation of Women in Educational Management Posts Act (WEV) came into effect on 7 March 1997. A planning obligation has been in effect since 1998.

Also, the government of southern Sudan faces the challenge of raising funds from foreign and local sources to pay for its army and to achieve proportional downsizing.

It is essential, however, that such measures do not go beyond what is reasonable under the circumstances and are proportional to the aim sought to be realized.

Proportional representation systems, where a political party's share in the national vote is reflected in its share of the legislative seats, may assist in the representation of minorities.

What I'm saying is that, surely, rationally, our distress about things that happen, about threats, should be roughly proportional to the size of those threats and threats to come.

At the same time, the mission's interlocutors expressed confidence in finding consensus on the principles of the electoral law, including on proportional representation for the election of the legislative body.

The centrist Liberal Democrats appeared to hold the balance of power, and stories circulated of how Heath was prepared to concede a reformed voting system. He held out the promise of proportional representation, which would ensure a greater number of parliamentary seats for the Liberal Democrats in future elections, in exchange for the party s support for a new Conservative government.

The applicant, Mr. Jacomb, submitted that policies instituted by the union to ensure proportional representation by women in executive positions and equal representation by women as electoral delegates unlawfully discriminated against men.

Though the election system is purely proportional and the S D won the popular vote, the reason that it ended up with fewer seats is simple its affiliated parties won relatively more votes in the larger countries, where it costs more voters to gain a single seat. Conversely, the EPP performed relatively better in small countries, where the vote cost per seat is much lower.

But money has many virtues in facilitating transactions hence its ubiquitous use. So, perhaps the more important message is that society s tolerance for monetization is proportional to the legitimacy accorded to the distribution of money.

The Committee recalls that under the Convention, differential treatment based on citizenship constitutes discrimination if the criteria for such differentiation are not applied pursuant to a legitimate aim, and are not proportional to the achievement of this aim.

GDP is the most comprehensive measure we have of an economy s success. The simplest form of growth linked bonds would be a long term government security that pays a regular dividend proportional to the GDP of the issuing country.

The Committee observes that the requirement of necessity implies an element of proportionality, in the sense that the scope of the restriction imposed on freedom of expression must be proportional to the value which the restriction serves to protect.

Second, the transaction cost of using a foreign currency as a medium of exchange is inversely proportional to the extent to which that currency is used globally. Similar economies of scale characterize foreign investors use of a particular international financial center.