This is a very slight discrepancy from strict verisimilitude here, but one that revealingly triggers disproportionate reactions among critics. |
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The costs ordered to be paid should not in the ordinary way be grossly disproportionate to the fine. |
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This process manifests itself in a certain attitude that seems to be ingrained in a disproportionate number of Scottish acts. |
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A disproportionate amount of the lower visibility general assignment positions have historically gone to women and minorities. |
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Imagine a country where instead of rooting out discrimination, many policy makers are busily blaming women for their disproportionate poverty. |
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The huge burden feeds through to small businesses in a disproportionate way. |
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It is difficult to see how the use of a nuclear weapon could ever avoid causing suffering disproportionate to military gain. |
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California bears a disproportionate amount of the cost of illegal immigration. |
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It exploits the good intentions and generosity of Church members whose Sunday offerings are used in this selfish and disproportionate way. |
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For hospitals in border states, a disproportionate number of these indigent ER patients are illegal immigrants. |
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This may seem to give disproportionate attention to a single off the cuff remark. |
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For someone with what you might call a small social circle, I get invited to a disproportionate amount of weddings. |
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A handful of overmighty subjects exercised a disproportionate influence on the events of the Wars of the Roses. |
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It turned out that a disproportionate amount of the unclaimed luggage originated from the Indian sub-continent. |
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So I guess we've all spent a disproportionate amount of time in the three second-hand shops. |
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Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen. |
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It produces excessive gastrin, resulting in disproportionate amounts of hydrochloric acid and pepsin leading to severe peptic ulcer disease. |
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These can take a disproportionate amount of time and funding, to the detriment of local priorities. |
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Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a disproportionate amount of influence. |
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The disproportionate amount of privately educated applicants who continue to win places each year is a concern. |
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We must all understand what takes up a disproportionate amount of the available police resources we all call for. |
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Readings take up a disproportionate amount of my time and, more importantly, my emotional energy. |
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The Sheikh's willingness to spend disproportionate amounts of money for certain objects has astonished the art world. |
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His big and dropsical head, disproportionate to his emaciated body, leans against his mother's shoulder, his eyes blinking weakly. |
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Both are black, a racial group that faces death sentences in disproportionate numbers, he says. |
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Single events or episodes can often assume a disproportionate significance. |
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Children of adoption show up in disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system and contribute to problems of juvenile delinquency. |
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Single events or episodes can, either negatively or positively, often assume disproportionate significance. |
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A disproportionate number of new entrants have been based in England, particularly the south. |
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The army's response was either wholly unwarranted or grotesquely disproportionate. |
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He seemed determined to justify a course of action which seemed wholly disproportionate. |
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Negative-minded realisers can kill the piece, the over-positive can encourage disproportionate growth. |
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An air strike was called off because a lawyer at US Central Command was concerned about the risk of disproportionate civilian casualties. |
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Using disproportionate force and disregarding civilian casualties were his ideas. |
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Mental health services consistently absorb a disproportionate share of budget cuts during lean economic times. |
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Very obese people tend not to exercise and are frequently poor, and they spend a disproportionate amount of time dieting. |
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By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources. |
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In a country which is invariably ruled by coalitions, a small number of seats can buy a disproportionate amount of power. |
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Cops spend a disproportionate amount of time in their cars, driving around on motor patrol. |
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Rivals complain that Murphy has disproportionate amounts of cash with which to distort the market. |
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Just six months later the anoles were almost exclusively tree-dwelling, and longer-legged lizards had died in disproportionate numbers. |
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As it happens, I have an answerphone and Caller ID, but disproportionate numbers of elderly or infirm people don't, and harassment is harassment. |
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If you have an extraordinary partiality to language, you spend a disproportionate share of your time looking for the right word. |
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In youth, affronts to their dignity or pride are often met with disproportionate anger, and sometimes with revenge. |
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The research presented in this book finds its anxiety about proselytism disproportionate and misplaced. |
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It's received a wholly disproportionate amount of attention just because of his name. |
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The wives of US servicemen who were exposed to Agent Orange gave birth to a disproportionate number of deformed babies. |
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May develop genu valgus or varus deformity at knee if there is a disproportionate loss of cartilage on one side. |
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Is there then a disproportionate growth in the crime of theft as opposed to more serious crimes? |
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That can take up a disproportionate amount of time and there is therefore less time spent on the business of teaching and learning. |
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Scotland, as ever playing a disproportionate role in scientific breakthroughs, has had a significant part in the biogenetic revolution. |
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Mike murmurs in agreement, and my head swells with ridiculously disproportionate pride. |
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The first is the percentage of each sibship that is female, given that women generally do a disproportionate share of maintaining kinship ties. |
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Rather, its power stems from the unalterable truth that to the victor goes a disproportionate amount of media attention. |
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There were disproportionate numbers of female or male births consistently produced by some sires. |
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But clear and carefully calculated decisions need to be made, not wild and disproportionate acts blinded by the fog of emotion. |
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In the past decade, the already notoriously unequal distribution of wealth has become even more disproportionate. |
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Squeezing disproportionate amounts of public spending out of the regions will leave the country fiscally unbalanced. |
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This economic control gives capitalists a disproportionate amount of power in all realms of society. |
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They took up a disproportionate amount of teachers' time and caused unreasonable stress. |
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Wealthy areas are inhabited by a disproportionate number of resident foreigners. |
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Funds rated four or five by Morningstar capture a disproportionate share of the new money invested in funds, according to analysts. |
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There is a disproportionate reduction of serous acini of the submucosal glands, which contain lysozyme, lactoferrin, and an antiprotease of small molecular weight. |
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No one seems to begrudge Apple executives making millions, yet those rewards at the top are just as disproportionate. |
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High utilizers of medical services comprise a small proportion of all patients, yet they account for a disproportionate amount of expenses in the health care system. |
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Alternatively, the PCC give disproportionate weight to this factor. |
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In fact, at this time it seems that the English still persisted in rapiers and daggers of disproportionate length which were certainly disappearing elsewhere. |
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Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be. |
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Some of them seem to change from ordinary members of the public into pretentious know-alls who have a totally disproportionate impression of their status. |
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Not only do they often face disproportionate stigma, but also disproportionate responsibility. |
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But when this same chamber serves as Ferguson Municipal Court, a disproportionate number of the defendants are black. |
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The reorientation of Poland's economy from a socialist command model to a capitalistic market-driven one has had a disproportionate impact on women. |
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He believes that middle-class people bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden. |
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To many, the army must have seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime and areas dominated by heavy industry and mining provided a disproportionate number of recruits. |
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Their stories of disproportionate, unmerited suffering demand that when sufferers cannot feel the companionship of God, we try to assure them of it. |
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Rotaries extract disproportionate power from small capacity engines and, because they need no pistons, valves, camshafts and belts, are free-revving and smooth as velvet. |
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There are 9.6 million bank accounts, a disproportionate amount for the country, but these are accounted for by recent growth in debit cards and cashless salary payments. |
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Although the vast majority of contemporary couples have dual incomes, women carry a disproportionate amount of the burden of homemaking, childcare, and eldercare. |
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The cheaper end of the hospitality industry includes a disproportionate number of lifestylers who offer bed and breakfast to make some pocket money. |
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The law should not pursue those allegedly guilty of minor, inadvertent or technical crimes decades ago, because to do so is disproportionate and oppressive. |
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A common thread across all 3 cities was disproportionate praise. |
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For an area of sea so protected from the winds and enormous fetches of the Atlantic or Pacific, the sheer number of wrecks at first seems disproportionate. |
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Basically, Rusch is a guy who gives up a disproportionate number of line drives, and line drives aren't converted to outs nearly as frequently as grounders or fly balls. |
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Last year, the European Court of Human Rights deemed the punishment handed down to the abuser as being disproportionate and a violation of freedom of expression. |
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If you are spending a disproportionate amount of time on the telephone, you might consider the use of an egg timer, or some other device, to limit your calls. |
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Kate gets a disproportionate amount of wreckage to build her shelter. |
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Considering the physical and societal enormity of China, however, the number of photographs devoted to the western provinces seems disproportionate. |
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Defending yourself with disproportionate force against any loss of power? |
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This problem is compounded by the fact that a disproportionate amount of people aged 65 and older live in these rural areas. |
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Furthermore, a disproportionate share of the potatoes grown in Ireland were of a single variety, the Irish Lumper. |
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African Americans continued to suffer disproportionate discriminatory application of the state's voter registration rules. |
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This is a totally disproportionate response, but no doubt just what the puppet masters had in mind. |
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Focus, Humph, your exotic Caribbean island needs you to fight its disproportionate levels of serious crime. |
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For its size, Qatar wields disproportionate influence in the world, and has been identified as a middle power. |
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Minorities are incarcerated at rates disproportionate to their share of the state's population. |
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The disproportionate supply of used test equipment in comparison to demand is a result of the recent economic downswing. |
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It has specifically identified a disproportionate occurrence of Goldenhar syndrome in Gulf veterans' offspring. |
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Jaganmohan Reddy disproportionate assets case under pressure from the Congress. |
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Thus a deontologist calls people good if they have charity, but calls conduct right if it is neither intrinsically wrong nor disproportionate. |
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It feels witch-hunty inasmuch as Bonds is getting disproportionate attention for an issue that extends far beyond him. |
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A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results. |
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These communities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental pollution and are more likely to face health risks such as cancer or asthma. |
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A 2009 list of national housing markets that were hard hit in the real estate crash included a disproportionate number in Florida. |
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The long neck results from a disproportionate lengthening of the cervical vertebrae, not from the addition of more vertebrae. |
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Yet even in their case, we observe a bias against disproportionate and nonreciprocal remedies. |
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Class actions continue to be filed at a rate highly disproportionate to Madison County's population. |
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In general, the Russian defenders were suffering disproportionate casualties each time the Japanese attacked. |
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Studies of disproportionate dwarfisms in animals have revealed the importance of core proteins an sulfation in the development of cartilage. |
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He noted the generosity and kindness of the islanders to him while he was there, which he believed was disproportionate to their poverty. |
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Tony Blair, defending FPTP, argued that other systems give small parties the balance of power, and influence disproportionate to their votes. |
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Significantly, there have been many of these newspapers in numbers disproportionate to the population of their locations. |
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Examination of the skeletal remains has found that there was a disproportionate number of men with a condition known as os acromiale, affecting their shoulder blades. |
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Since then, concern in many countries has shifted from overpopulation to underpopulation and the disproportionate number of residents who are elderly and dependent. |
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The disproportionate minority contact process is ongoing and involves the initial identification, followed by an assessment of the reasons for a disproportionate rate. |
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There is evidence a disproportionate number of men in prison are left-handed, fueling the leap that left-handedness is related to social deviation. |
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At Cantigny, where the AEF saw its first action in late May, the Americans suffered disproportionate casualties to the results achieved, which in any case were small. |
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Most prison officers do their work with integrity but there are typically two or three corrupt prison officers in each prison who have disproportionate influence. |
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These limitations cause a disproportionate burden on low income people. |
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Some rowing enthusiasts claim that the disproportionate number of tall rowers is simply due to the unfair advantage that tall rowers have on the ergometer. |
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The bigger the so-called Donglegate story became, the more disproportionate and unfair Richards' original tweet seemed, even if that level of exposure was never her intent. |
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As we've moved to e-mail and fax communication, the cost of our postage meter became disproportionate to the amount we were spending on postage itself. |
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