The large office buildings, arranged in a spiraling cluster around the memorial sector, will be a far more proportionate and elegant addition to the skyline than the twin towers' bruising banality.

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New rules are also needed to make the voting power of each country in the council more proportionate to its size: the present system gives small countries a disproportionately big say.

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He said the measures "should leave us with laws that are clear and ... more proportionate" - but argued that for the most part the bill was a "codification" of the current system rather than "reform".

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The rules covering consultations on potential government policy changes are being loosened to allow a more "proportionate and targeted" approach.

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Over the previous year's spring figures, Scotland put on 60, 000 jobs, which is better than its proportionate share of 251, 000 more UK jobs.

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All burglaries will be initially investigated but only receive more attention "if the crime is deemed solvable using proportionate resources or it classifies as a priority crime".

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"If things continue as they are in Syria today, within a few months, proportionate to the size of the population, more people will have died in Syria than in the whole of the conflict since 2003 in Iraq, " he added.

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But it stressed such a system "must be proportionate to the means of the individual" and asked ministers for more information on the income threshold for contributions.

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