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Example sentences for "inverse ratio"

  • Post Office, railroad, penitentiary and other Government employes often must perform their functions far beyond the time limit, and their salaries stand in inverse ratio to their work.

  • This was especially the case in the matter of the keeping of mistresses, which stood in inverse ratio to the size and capabilities of the realms and realmlets.

  • In case this power exists (which besides is proved) it must increase in an inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

  • Thus, the labor-time contained in a commodity or its exchange-value is a variable quantity, increasing or diminishing in an inverse ratio to the rise and fall of the productivity of labor.

  • In the nature of things, the rapidity of their circulation is in inverse ratio to the price which they realize in each separate purchase or sale, or to the size of the fraction of gold coin which they represent.

  • Observe that the sacrifices involved in the social revolution everywhere stand in an inverse ratio to what has hitherto been the rate of wages, which is the chief factor in determining the average level of popular culture.

  • The two pistons, through the elastic force of the gas, repel each other with a force which, according to the law of Mariotte, varies in inverse ratio to the distance.

  • Pfeffer demonstrated that, for the same substance, the osmotic pressure is proportional to the concentration, and consequently in inverse ratio to the volume occupied by a similar mass of the solute.

  • The outlay of this up-hill work may be in an inverse ratio to the remuneration, for the one will be enormous, and the other paltry.

  • In technical phrase, value in use and value in exchange, although necessary to each other, are in an inverse ratio to each other.

  • But labour is in an inverse ratio to the liberality of Nature: "/Ergo/, wealth is inversely as the liberality of Nature.

  • This superabundance appears to be calculated in an inverse ratio to the sensibility, intelligence, and power with which each species is endowed, to enable it to resist destruction.

  • A dog is scared in inverse ratio to the number of guns!

  • Didn't I say in the first place that the time a dog would be gone was in inverse ratio to the number of guns?

  • Tearing of the voice, therefore, should only be associated with an excessive extension of the sound whose intensity, as we have demonstrated, is in inverse ratio to the dramatic proportion.

  • The strength of the voice is in an inverse ratio to the respiration.

  • It may be regarded as an established rule that the burden of taxation is, in Russia, in inverse ratio to the means of the taxpayer.

  • As the number of impoverished peasants increased in inverse ratio to the tenant class, a time arrived when the demand for labor could no longer be supplied by tenants alone, and had to be provided for through wage labor.

  • And we also have a few physicians who are big enough to tell a man there is nothing the matter with him, if they think so, and then charge him accordingly--in inverse ratio to the amount of medicine administered.

  • The chief duty of the first office consisted in signing the monthly voucher for salary, and the other was about the same as Poet Laureate--with salary in inverse ratio to responsibility.

  • The man Schopenhauer would be intolerable, but the writer Schopenhauer is gaining ground in inverse ratio to the square of the distance we are from him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    customs duties; ever will; exclusive right; fertile soil; good because; good soldiers; had formerly; hath come; inverse proportion; inverse ratio; inversely proportional; made choice; money should; national politics; never asked; other business; particular time; pure literature; quite unconscious; seeing her; small beer; then strain the liquor; turn aside; upon landing