Proportion example sentences

As discussed earlier, proportional taxes help to stabilise the economy against upward and downward movements.The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state.You already know that three-fourth of the earth's surface is covered with water, but only a small proportion of it accounts for freshwater that can be put to use.Current ratio is the proportion of current assets to current liabilities.Although every caste has some poor members, the proportion living in extreme poverty (below the official 'poverty line') is much higher for the lowest castes and much lower for the upper castes, with the backward classes once again in between.If the amount of carbon dioxide crosses the delicate proportion of 0.A low (or high) bank rate encourages banks to keep smaller (or greater) proportion of their deposits as reserves, since borrowing from RBI is now less (or more) costly than before.The food insecure people are disproportionately large in some regions of the country, such as economically backward states with high incidence of poverty, tribal and remote areas, regions more prone to natural disasters etc.Total foreign trade (exports + imports) as a proportion of GDP is a common measure of the degree of openness of an economy.Since increase in protoplasm is difficult to measure directly, one generally measures some quantity which is more or less proportional to it.One way to solve this problem is to make it legally binding to have a fair proportion of women in the elected bodies.In India the poor, illiterate and underprivileged people vote in larger proportion as compared to the rich and privileged sections.As a result banks use a greater (or smaller) proportion of their resources for giving out loans to borrowers or investors, thereby enhancing (or depressing) the multiplier process via assisting (or resisting) secondary money creation.A small number of ultra-rich enjoy a highly disproportionate share of wealth and incomes.No wonder the proportion of women among the highly paid and valued jobs is still very small.