Thus, human are argued to favor a proportional response based on how severe the offence is.

The product was that all symptoms, whether normal proportional response or inappropriate pathological tendencies, could both be treated as potential signs of mental illness.

But State Department officials expect a fully proportional response.

More significant is the issue of a "proportional response" to military attacks on American assets abroad.

Such a horrific crime against life seems to demand payback, in the form of a proportional response.

And that, he decided, as he left Jartek spluttering on the ground, was a proportional response.

Burger disagreed with the Court's conclusion that there were no circumstances under which it was a proportional response to crime.

He said such an attack "would be met with a proportional response, and those responsible would be held to account."

This exercise tested the defensive capabilities of the ship and the flexibility of proportional response to threats.

No matter how they try to excuse it, that's a hostile act, and one that merits a proportional response.