Does the central bank have to keep pushing short-rates higher to elicit at last a roughly proportionate response in the bond market?

Where an individual presents a continuing risk to the public, the proposals are a proportionate response.

But it seems right that we should adopt a policy of reluctant proportionate response, rather than draconian precautionary initiative.

He insisted that it had been a proportionate response to an 'intractable feud'.

Let's leave aside the question of proportionate response in both these cases.