Portion in example sentence

We have selected three widely discussed methods of allocating GHG emission quotas to different countries:The equal per capita emission rights approach allocates emission rights to countries in proportion to their population, but only for the remaining portion of the global “carbon budget” – that is, for the amount that can still be emitted, between now and 2050, without causing dangerous, irreversible climate change.

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Robert Kennedy once said that "few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events."

He doesn't lose the water right, he just chooses to apply that right, or some portion of it, to the stream, instead of to the land.

I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.

So why can't we say with confidence whether or not a significant portion of a continent-scale ice sheet will or will not collapse?

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