Proportion
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But when the bacteria grow and double and they're all participating in making these molecules, the molecule, the extracellular amount of that molecule, increases in
proportion
to cell number.
This is a sculpture of the Sun and the Earth, in
proportion.
This one is about the Moon and then the distance to the Earth, in
proportion
also.
And then each of these little spheres is the size of the Earth in
proportion
to the Sun.
That’s where the time increases in
proportion
to the number of blocks there are.
If you look at America, the
proportion
of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.
The North American Network Operators Group, a group of people who, on a beautiful day outside, enter into a windowless room, at their terminals reading email and messages in fixed
proportion
font, like this, and they talk about networks.
And then once it's learned this it spreads in geometric
proportion
across a population.
And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota, where actually there is a very high
proportion
of centenarians.
And in proportion, what would the size of the sphere and the length, and what would the taper be to the Earth?
And likewise, the 40 billion dollars that they generate into the global economy each year is the tiniest
proportion
of the global economy to ever be represented by slave labor.
So no surprises then that the
proportion
that actually used clean needles every time they injected in the last week is just about one in 10, and the other nine in 10 are sharing.
If we resize the countries of the globe in
proportion
to the subject of interest, we see that Sub-Saharan Africa is the worst hit region by HIV/AIDS.
So there seems to be a strange disproportionality at work, I think, in many areas of human problem solving, particularly those which involve human psychology, which is: The tendency of the organization or the institution is to deploy as much force as possible, as much compulsion as possible, whereas actually, the tendency of the person is to be almost influenced in absolute reverse
proportion
to the amount of force being applied.
And actually we don't spend nearly enough money looking for those things, looking for those tiny things that may or may not work, but which, if they do work, can have a success absolutely out of
proportion
to their expense, their efforts and the disruption they cause.
Think about those oldest living things on Earth, but in a cosmic
proportion.
Who has the biggest budget as a
proportion
of GDP? Let's have a look.
Have a foreground, a background, all in beautiful
proportion.
All the next scenes are totally out of
proportion.
A large
proportion
of the film is mere wanderings through the corridors of a multi-storied clinic/hospital.
They took a simple low-key love story and blew it all out of
proportion.
Let's see...assemble the prettiest cast you can find (which of course is in direct
proportion
to the amount of talent they lack)...throw together the thinnest plot you can dig up...and viola!
It looks as though you need a two-word tough-guy title to attract a sufficient
proportion
of the idiot crowd - "Die Hard", "Lethal Weapon", "Hard Weapon", "Die Lethal", etc. - talking about "the long kiss goodnight" will get you nowhere.
In consequence, my enjoyment of "Italian Job" was probably far out of
proportion
to its actual worth.
Director, Raoul Walsh mounts his historical epic on the laurels of highly questionable recanting of historical texts, rewritten by screen writers Wally Kline and Aeneas MacKenzie, until truth and fiction are warped all out of
proportion.
Peter Strauss, by nature of appearing in mini-series and made-for-TV films, often gets an unfairly high
proportion
of bad reviews - Usually from casual observers who saw ten minutes of the film, having channel-hopped into it half-way through.
In reality it would have been an awesome sight viewed from the ground nearby, in this movie it was out of
proportion
and looked like the model it probably was.
I found the pace to be glacial and the original story blown way out of
proportion
to the content.
they made a worse film and will probably lose the same
proportion
of money lost on darkness falls.
However, a good
proportion
of his films are marred by bombastic effects "Carrie" (1976), "the Fury" (1978) "Scarface" (1983) without mentioning his borrowings from Hitchcock.
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