| The disproportion between the sculpture and the human throng reminded me of a device employed by Piranesi in his engravings of ancient Rome. |
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| Intuition finds a disproportion between 5000 illustrations and a subject index of forty pages. |
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| But in the case of China and Taiwan, the disproportion in scale of population and power between the mainland and the island is enormous. |
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| That was when I began to notice the obscene disproportion of taxpayers' money spent on London. |
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| There's been a significant disproportion for 30 years now between the level of risk the company takes on and the premiums they charge. |
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| In the foreseeable future, the disproportion between the United States and any other state will widen. |
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| The disproportion of parks on Vancouver's Westside compared to the city's Eastside is of absurd dimensions. |
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| Since our inclination is usually to evade what's difficult, we may find an increasing disproportion between our power and our depth. |
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| The disproportion between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable. |
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| But, it's not the wedding I resent as much as the disproportion of it all. |
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| All sustained strategic bombing campaigns, moreover, depend on a disproportion between the economic resources of the attacking and defending sides. |
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| An awareness that a tragic disproportion of black Americans are poor has been a hallmark of civic awareness among educated Americans for 40 years now. |
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| But, while the physical presentation was flawless, I felt a strange disproportion between the ceremonial grandeur of the occasion and the contentious politics of Thatcher herself. |
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| Madam Fusca, one of the issues that's come before our committee is that there seems to be a huge disproportion in regard to those who take the risks in creating a sellable product or, in your case, setting up a broadcast. |
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| Blacks and Latinos are jailed for drug offences in striking disproportion to their numbers: according to Human Rights Watch, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men. |
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| The brutal disproportion of power between the United States and its southern neighbours means that inter-American relations will never be tension-free. |
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| I believe that one of the reasons for conflicts in many places throughout the world today is largely due to the great disproportion and imbalance between the global exchange of material and spiritual values. |
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| The disproportion is very clear and it is also very clear that these changes will have a major impact on the future of public services in Quebec, particularly in the areas of education, health, and early childhood resources. |
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| The Secretary-General of the Conference, in his address to this body on 31 January, brought to our attention the horrifying disproportion between expenditure on arms and the resources deployed for aid. |
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| Revolutionary regroupments on the program of Leninist internationalism are the means to resolve the disproportion between our small forces and our task. |
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| His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end. |
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| If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. |
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| Comparisons are complicated, but the disproportion is overwhelming. |
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| Disagreement in substance or essence... may be called Disproportion, as there is a disproportion between finities and infinities, i.e. there is no proportion between them. |
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| His salary is in disproportion to what people who have similar jobs earn. |
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| However, he was not concerned about the Cephalopelvic Disproportion due to the fact that Angel's head was too large to descend through her mother's pelvis. |
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