Sentences with phrase «inverse proportion»

The cases involved strip searches, private placement, and funding, which the media covered in inverse proportion to their significance for public policy.

This is rather simpler, and follows the normal law of varying in inverse proportion to the square root of the number of data.

When visiting offices my general rule of thumb is that the size of the family picture on the executive's desk was probably in exact inverse proportion to the amount of time they actually spent with them.

While Amendment 66 went down in flames yesterday, Colorado voters — by an almost exactly inverse proportion — approved Proposition AA, which will tax our now - legal recreational consumption of marijuana.

GCSE higher, inverse proportion activity / worksheet.

There's other mountains of course, the veritable Lhotse being the pure idiocy of the world's leading financial managers who think that recognition of risk is in inverse proportion to their penis size.

All of which are in inverse proportion to their level of education and intelligence.

The contents of his mind must expand in inverse proportion to the decrease in his father's ability to recollect.

Quranic speech appears to be superhuman in its transcendence of the psychological law that intellect and feeling are always found in inverse proportion to each other.

The main difference that is noticed in a modern Catholic funeral is the abundance of flowers and candles, (which have become the universal mark of condolence) and almost in inverse proportion, the scarcity of Mass cards and Mass stipends.

James Tolhurst FAITH MAGAZINE November - December 2015 The main difference that is noticed in a modern Catholic funeral is the abundance of flowers and candles, (which have become the universal mark of condolence) and almost in inverse proportion, the scarcity of Mass cards and Mass stipends.

Mainline seminaries have ignored this phenomenon in inverse proportion to its growing social and political influence.

It appears that the acrid or burning principle in the seed - pods of this plant is in inverse proportion to their size.

His humor has also become a little unreliable; Holtz's jokes come in inverse proportion to the stress he's under.

At his best, he's still pretty good; at his worst, he's a ponderous vortex that receives attention and service in inverse proportion to productivity and excitement.

That terse communique was in inverse proportion to the mass chaos the Longhorns had sown.

Good heavens Steve Evans, your fury is so, your veins protrude from the side of your face, in inverse proportion your anger does grow, in relation to Crawley's current league place,

Research has found that women's breast cancer risk declines in inverse proportion to the duration of breastfeeding: That is, the longer you breastfeed your baby, the lower your risk for developing breast cancer.

«There is a tendency sometimes for people on social media to volunteer their opinions with an insistence in inverse proportion to their knowledge of the subject matter under discussion,» Mr Bercow said.

The hon. Gentleman did not quite say this, but I think what he was driving at is that there is sometimes a tendency for people on social media to volunteer their opinions with an insistence in inverse proportion to their knowledge of the subject matter under discussion.»

Indeed, Labour's netroots will succeed in inverse proportion to the scale of the party's defeat.

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

If they were to increase this number by 1 trillion, the value of each dollar in circulation will be decreased in inverse proportion, or, in other words, the «value» of this super-coin will be «drained» from the whole economy.

Knightsbridge is, like Kensington and Hampstead, one of those London boroughs whose decent restaurants are in inverse proportion to the cash of its inhabitants

They found that the percentage loss of stored biomass rises in inverse proportion to the size of the remaining rest of the forest.

The first, Jesus» Son, cast the actress as a heroin addict, while the second, Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, featured her as a shy, mute woman who gets used and abused by a legendary jazz guitarist (Sean Penn) whose musical talent runs in inverse proportion to his qualities as a human being.

Often referred to as «the littlest Culkin,» Rory Culkin came to acting with a family reputation that stands in inverse proportion to his diminutive stature.

The Lindley / Grant yakker is considerably less entertaining in inverse proportion to how informative it tries to be.

Yet where Hurt's trauma came as a genuinely nasty surprise — and one that merited extensive dissection — Calvin is just a bad seed who, thanks to the Lucasfilm wonks» overtime work, gets bigger and badder with every frame, in inverse proportion to a rapidly thinning idea.

At the very least the overacting Schaech appears to have some sort of fun though his enjoyment is in inverse proportion to any that could be had by the audience.

State aid is distributed in inverse proportion to district fiscal capacity.

Review worksheet on direct proportion and inverse proportion.

Topics include: Formulate simple formulae and expressions from real - world contexts,, for example, direct proportion, inverse proportion & growth and decay.

In this real life application of inverse proportion, pupils will investigate how gravity fields on various planets are inversely proportional to their radius and, subsequently, how they are related to their mass.

A selection of mixed topics with full answers aimed at Higher grades C to A. Topics covered are: solving equations, indices, percentages, histograms, pie charts, cumulative frequency, loci, similar shapes, trigonometry, upper and lower bounds and direct and inverse proportion.