"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sweden probably has a higher proportion of its citizens living in regions that experience sub-zero temperatures for much of the year but its per capita emissions are only one third those of Canada.
- He circumvented this with his Registration Bill in 1887, which excluded communal land-owners from voting and thus effectively disenfranchised a large proportion of the Cape's Black African citizens.
- An island nation slightly larger than West Virginia with 19 million people, it lost a larger proportion of its citizens than any other country.
- Can anyone truly applaud when a society, whether concerned with safety, politics or morality, feels it must lock up a huge proportion of its citizens?
- Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg passed it to prevent communal/tribal land-owners from voting and thus to disenfranchise a large proportion of the Cape's Black African citizens who implemented traditional forms of land ownership.
- Therefore the will and the proportion of its 3.5 million citizens who despite of 20 years of peace and progress, have thus far been denied the full economic benefits that a full recognition as statehood of their own country would bring.
- Recently Silver Lake has had a higher proportion of its citizens commuting into Topeka.
- Since it fails to provide civilized levels of healthcare to a large proportion of its citizens (and illegals doing the work no-one wants to pay proper wages for), comparisons would undermine the 'America is better than everywhere else' meme.
- The access provisions for buses and coaches as regards boarding by persons with reduced mobility will ensure that a larger proportion of our citizens use public transport.
- This was notoriously the age of "rotten" and "pocket" boroughs, and Norwich was unusual in having such a high proportion of its citizens able to vote.
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