To hear from those we love how ill or unhappy they are, is to have our distress intensified in direct proportion to the number of miles by which we are separated from them.
The positive character of these reactions is in direct proportion to the purity and freshness of the sample.
The zeal and responsibility felt is apt to diminish in direct proportion to the increased numbers of the board.
Such praises are commonly to be distrusted in direct proportion to their extravagance.
Experience has shown that thefts or mutilations of books have been numerous, in direct proportion to the extension of freedom and opportunity to those frequenting the library.
In direct proportion to the breadth of information possessed by any one, will be his usefulness in promptly supplying the wants of readers.
In Manóboland the fame of a banquet is in direct proportionto the number of those who became drunk, sobriety being considered effeminate, and a refusal to drink an affront to the host.
In general the increase in price of a commodity was in direct proportion to its distance from points of distribution.
His religious fervor, however, decreased in direct proportion to the bountifulness with which heaven rewarded his prayers.
Both men and leader are each entitled to the serious consideration of the other, and to respect in direct proportion to the ability each shows in performing his own part on the team; and each will be judged by this test.
Such results are possible to the leader indirect proportion to his knowledge of his job and his ability to conduct the work with efficiency and without wasted time or energy.
And as poor leadership thus denies efficiency to an organization, so may its efficiency be increased in direct proportion to the quality of leadership shown by those in control, especially by those in direct contact with the men.
Since foods induce healthy, normal action of all the bodily functions, and alcohol injures every organ of the body in direct proportion to the amount consumed, by this test it is proved to not be a food.
Only on condition that the rate augmented in direct proportion to the increase of distance, would the revenue per ton mile remain constant.
It appears as if its volume increased more nearly as the square of population than in direct proportion to it.
It appears, indeed, almost as if the volume of transportation in the United States increased more nearly as the square of population than in direct proportion.
The subjective symptoms accompanying the affection of the epiglottis are not always in direct proportion to the extent of the membranes.
In fever hospitals it is rare for any member of the household who has not already had the fever to escape an attack, and the probability of his suffering is in direct proportion to the intimacy of his relations with the patients.
This bacillus is not found in any other kind of sputum, is very abundant in pertussis, and increases in direct proportion to the severity of the disease.
Closed associations usually act as complete barriers, while more open ones restrict invasion in direct proportion to the degree of occupation.
Changes in intensity seem to be in direct proportion to the area over which opinion on a given issue may be said to exist.
Water evaporates incessantly from the surface of the young plant; its quantity is in direct proportionto the temperature and the extent of the surface.
The demand for human labor could not fail to be in direct proportion to this sterility, and then truly would the wishes of Messrs.
In any enterprise overhead costs rise in direct proportion to the extent and complexity of the social order.
They also add to the wealth and well being of the community on the widely accepted utilitarian formula: happiness comes in direct proportion to the extent and variety of ones possessions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct proportion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
