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The level of China's military spending is low when compared to some other countries, not only in terms of absolute value, but also in terms of the proportions defense budgets occupy in the nations' gross domestic product and the entire budget.

Jiang Enzhu

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

The direction of the collection is it's a very precise look, strict, proportions are controlled, ... It's the first time we are introducing wovens and this also helps in a way to give more structure to the collection.

Angela Missoni

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles M. De Talleyrand

China is accounting for ever larger proportions of research and development financing, but Vietnam is still not in that game yet.

Jonathan Pincus

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

C. Hughes

This is a tragedy of monumental proportions for the victim, his family, friends and the good people involved at EAGLE III. We can't adequately express to you how deeply saddened we are by all of this. Our prayers go out to the family of the pilot on board. It is the commitment of EAGLE III that we do everything in our power to find the cause and make certain that this never repeats.

Tom Madigan

If I were to list the power structure of the top 25 people in San Antonio, it would certainly not reflect the proportions of the population. There would be more Anglos than there would be others.

Steve Murdock

There is some math involved. Words have certain patterns and proportions and a lot of it is learning the mathematical nature of words. The rest is just having a sense for words.

David Quarfoot

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Sarah Bernhardt

We can use clothes to make ourselves look taller and slimmer. We can re-balance the body. Diana has good proportions.

Pippa Rees

In the current cycle, there would seem to be a risk of a particularly large decline in the market, given that, by many conventional metrics, we experienced a speculative bubble of extraordinary proportions.

Michael Prell

The cut is the most important factor in the value of the diamond. You can have two diamonds of equal carat size, color and clarity ? one cut to ideal proportions and the other not and the value between the two may be as much as a 50 percent difference. That is why it is always important to look at the stones and compare them.

Kyle Hain

There are probably several recipes for creating stuttering and each recipe has different ingredients and different proportions of ingredients.

Trisha Zebrowski

His loss is a veritable natural disaster, a leadership-security catastrophe of colossal proportions.

Uri Dan

This is more than just breaking into someone's home and stealing their goods; this is a personal intrusion of unimaginable proportions. Certainly, it's going to have a lifetime influence on her.

Judge Kenneth Biehn

Every season the proportions of a suit change, the shoulder, the layer, the hips, the shape, ... very, very light.

Domenico Dolce

We're entering a whole new era now. America has suffered a terrorist attack of historic proportions, and now we're going to go after the perpetrators. Cyberattacks may be inevitable... Physical and cyberattacks in conjunction could cause panic across a whole economic sector.

Richard Power

I've always held that in the proportions we're dealing with, the index number is not only irrelevant, but possibly misleading, ... In search, size does not necessarily matter.

Jonathan Spira

It grew to huge proportions ? much larger than I expected. I was kind of thinking if we could get in the neighborhood of three or four hundred dollars that would be pretty good.

David Curry

This is a change of historic proportions that will pose huge development challenges. You saw what happened with one flood in Bombay last year -- we could see similar and growing risks across Asia.

Ifzal Ali

The foundation of it is proportions. It's the basis for deciding what happens on top of it.

Kevin George

The dimensions of videogame characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop.

Cliff Bleszinski

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Lord Shaftesbury