Sentences with phrase «for disproportionate»

Portfolio and entity purchases continue to account for a disproportionate share of the recent sales declines, while individual property transactions have been relatively stable.

Wards with high levels of child poverty and / or high proportions of children from ethnic minorities were over-sampled to improve reliability of inference for these important subpopulations; to compensate for disproportionate stratification, sample design weights are provided with the data [18], and we used these in our analysis.

Professor Vinson found that 3 % of Australia's postcodes account for a disproportionate amount of disadvantage.

The sample design allowed for the disproportionate representation of families living in areas of child poverty.

# 7 MADISON AND COOK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS Madison and Cook counties have become perennial Judicial Hellholes known for disproportionate volumes of litigation and large verdicts.

The corporation then billed the owner of unit 7 for disproportionate use of water during the period prior to the installation of a separate meter, asserting that the disproportionate water usage constituted a commercial use.

In a recent Small Claims Court decision, MTCC No. 659 v. Truman, the Court considered whether a condo corporation could charge an owner for disproportionate and excessive use of water in the owner's unit.

The Wall Street Journal has provoked thoughtful discussion around the blogosphere regarding the reasons for the disproportionate levels of depression among lawyers as compared to other professions.

The Downtown Eastside (DTES) as a neighbourhood is well - known within Vancouver and even across Canada for its disproportionate levels of poverty and extreme marginalization.

While considering the possible explanations for the disproportionate representation of female lawyers in commercial and appellate cases, the panel questioned the ability of women litigators to generate business.

One reason for the disproportionate influence of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly as it pertains to the impact of aerosols, is that most man - made aerosols are released from the more industrialized regions north of the equator.

The released carbon is mostly in the form of CO2 but the small amount of associated methane (~ 3 %) accounts for a disproportionate amount of the expected climate forcing.

In Spring 2014, we surveyed members of the National Medical Association, a society of African American physicians who care for a disproportionate number of African...

I believe it is these older plants that are responsible for a disproportionate share of the SO2 and other pollutant emissions.

Not for his immersive collaborations on behalf of citizens awakened by his Johnny Appleseed sowing of disruptive ideas — all elaborately conceived and courageously realised — but for the disproportionate space given his crowd - pleasers.

«While cats make up a small percentage of rabies vectors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of human exposures,» said Holmer.

ABC, CDC, and TWS «While cats make up a small percentage of rabies vectors,» argues Holmer, «they are responsible for a disproportionate number of human exposures.»

For disproportionate returns, I believe it is essential to understand the fundamentals of value investing and invest in individual stocks.

This pernicious anomaly causes investors to blindly invest in home market stocks for a disproportionate percentage (vs. world GDP share, for example) of their portfolio.

Lynn Jennings, education advocate and interim field director for the Education Trust, spoke out against the bill for its disproportionate, adverse effects on children and families of color:

Some 5 million school - age children do not have a broadband Internet connection at home, with low - income households accounting for a disproportionate share

The County and state's support of policies that facilitated white flight to private academies allowed for a disproportionate number of black and white students to be enrolled in the County's schools compared to the County's population.30 In the 1971 - 72 school year, only 5 percent of students in the County's K - 12 public schools were white.31

If the ability of parents to choose schools is a precondition for disproportionate concentrations of students of the same background in some schools, then it is important to examine school segregation in the context of school choice writ large.

Losing agency fees would shrink teachers unions» membership and clip unions» political and economic wings not only in the 20 remaining states with agency fees, but also in the national headquarters that depend on these states for a disproportionate share of their membership and funds.

To my great disappointment, these friends disagreed with me and criticized Israel for its disproportionate use of force and the killing of civilians, both war crimes according to international law.

There is no simple explanation for the disproportionate appeal of charter schools to blacks.

Consider the papercut — a minor injury best known for the disproportionate amount of pain it can cause.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

As the report stresses, African American men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly in the South and Northeast, account for a disproportionate percentage of the new infections.

«In what irrational, Homer Simpson world would we single it out for disproportionate cuts?»

In late 2003, the House Education Committee released a report showing that costs for higher education are rising because students and parents lack the consistent ability to hold the higher education system accountable for disproportionate tuition increases.

Known as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the package of bills that passed last year created a new civil system for handling minor offenses that in the past often resulted in open warrants and the possibility of arrests for a disproportionate number of minority New Yorkers.

Congress failed to renew funding for the Disproportionate Share Hospital fund, which will impact public hospitals that serve the uninsured.

Last month the 32 - year - old Real Madrid striker became disgruntled as he felt singled out for disproportionate treatment by Spanish prosecutors, who accused him of evading tax of 14.7 million euros (# 12.8 m).

It may be closer to the truth to say that unfavorable trends are real and of considerable magnitude, but nonetheless that a fraction of the population accounts for a disproportionate amount of the depressing statistics.

Another reason for the disproportionate public expenditure on the elderly is the population's greater longevity.

Meanwhile, Ontario accounts for a disproportionate share of Canada's imports from Korea, reflecting both its large share of consumption and Korean intermediate inputs into Ontario's manufacturing sector.

It does account for a disproportionate 20 percent of the value created in these start - ups which goes to show the value of institutional investors or at least the filter of institutional investors.

This approach allows you to allocate the necessary resources - time, money, energy - to the limited opportunities that provide the opportunity for disproportionate rewards.

Individuals with a BMI greater than 35 (medical obesity) accounted for a disproportionate 61 % of the organization's total costs, given that they only represented 37 % of the obese employee population.

New entrants to the labour force, new graduates, and other young Nova Scotians, account for a disproportionate share of this exodus.

Indeed, say the BW authors, «orphan drugs accounted for a disproportionate share, 41 percent, of all medications brought to market in 2014» — with global sales, by one estimate, expected to reach $ 209 billion by 2022, roughly twice what they are now.

Not exact matches

For example, you can't have disproportionate distributions of dividends or losses.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

For example, Slice found a disproportionate number of iPhone SE buyers are coming from «other» mobile operating systems, mostly Google's (googl) Android.

The waivers are intended for facilities producing less than 75,000 barrels per day (bpd) that can also prove compliance with the policy would cause them «disproportionate economic hardship.»

However, it also points out that minorities continue to get arrested for marijuana in disproportionate numbers and could get shut out of the legal marijuana industry.

The session centered on the disproportionate toll that Alzheimer's takes on women and the promise of data analytics to expose the risk factors for the disease.

Foodies, for example, spend a disproportionate amount of their money on food, beverages and goods at big - box stores, possibly because they live in larger households with adult chlldren or other family members.

Even factoring in men's tendency to log more hours than women — a reality caused largely by the disproportionate share of home and family responsibilities women bear — women still earn only 87.9 cents for every dollar earned by men.