Sentences with phrase «disproportionate effect»

If a company has high operating leverage, and sales decline, it can have a shockingly disproportionate effect on the net income of the firm.

· Disproportionate effect of relatively few active employees on the many in the bargaining unit.This is particularly the case when collective bargaining involves a system - wide structure of elections, or when an earlier workforce voted the union in and the current one doesn't want it.

That's because cities are, by their nature, prone to disproportionate effects from destructive weather phenomenon such as heat - waves or tidal surges.

Taking a different perspective, Dr Maarten van Aalst from the Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre pointed to research on the potential impact of SRM on seasonal monsoons, with potentially disproportionate effects on developing countries.

An arbitrary, overbroad, or grossly disproportionate effect on one person is sufficient to establish a breach of section 7.

Yet, massive cuts to legal aid for family law in B.C. have had a dramatic, negative and disproportionate effect on women's ability to access justice.

The «high impact firms» that BDC studied are ones that have disproportionate effects on the economy given their size — usually established businesses that have grown big enough to invest in above - average growth.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

Because of sequence of returns risk, portfolio withdrawals can cause the events in early retirement to have a disproportionate effect on the sustainability of an income strategy.

That's because they will have a disproportionate effect when are no other accounts to offset them.

The resultant squad, wherein the talent is distributed in markedly uneven measure and so certain injuries can have a disproportionate effect on the team.

It's as if... a small group of ultra-rich people... have a disproportionate effect on how... aaaaah, my brain... government can help them stay ultra-rich even in matters that don't affect the... aaaaagggh it burns, help... general population, just by virtue of having powerful friends in... AAGGGH I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME... Congress?

However, higher prices will have a disproportionate effect on households with lower disposable income.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tried to establish a bag fee in 2008, but met fierce opposition from Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who argued it would have a disproportionate effect on lower - income shoppers.

Local elections in the capital can have a disproportionate effect on media coverage of parties and on morale simply because of where they are.

But many MPs had major concerns about the impact such powers would have on civil liberties, and in particular, the disproportionate effect they could have on ethnic minorities in Britain.

According to Ballot Access News, the «AFL - CIO is mostly interested in fighting SB 69 because it has a disproportionate effect on Democrats who want to run in the Democratic primary.

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) quickly came out against the cap, saying it would have a disproportionate effects on single - parent families with three or more children living in urban areas.

Mr Hamilton also warned that defence cuts would have a disproportionate effect on poor areas of the UK.

Finally, despite the important effects of the substantial rise of UKIP on the shares of the vote for the two main parties, UKIP are not set to win many seats nor have a disproportionate effect on the competition for seats between the two main parties in their key marginals.

But it warns that counter-terrorism legislation and rhetoric are eroding civil liberties and damaging community relations, in particular by their «disproportionate effect» on Muslims.

Even so, if genetic information has a disproportionate effect in getting people to heed advice that they should be following anyway, that could be a strong force for improving public health.

Emissions from those activities could have a disproportionate effect on Arctic clouds compared to emissions from other parts of the world, Garrett says.

«The results highlight the disproportionate effect the hunting and poaching of mature animals might have for elephant populations.»

Likewise, contemporary vaccination coverage is explored in Schuster et al., which relates to the ongoing measles outbreak in Berlin and its disproportionate effects in young adults.

This cutback occurred in the middle of the year and is therefore having a disproportionate effect on the remainder of the fiscal year.

«But I do believe that discoveries about dark matter and dark energy will have a disproportionate effect on science,» he says.

Implicit biases are unconscious and can't be readily eliminated, Millar noted, and they have disproportionate effects on minorities compared to women — but the first step toward correcting them in any context is knowing that they exist and taking deliberate steps to compensate in actions and decisions.

Importantly, ventricular enlargement may not be a perfect indicator of global atrophy in HD because caudate atrophy will have a disproportionate effect on ventricular enlargement due to their shared boundaries.

«We calculated that 3.6 percent of cases traveled, basically meaning that if you were able to focus on those mobile cases and reduce their mobility, you might have had a disproportionate effect on the epidemic,» said computational biologist Dr. Gytis Dudas, a Mahan Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the paper's lead author.

But left undecided, until now, is whether it forbids policies that are designed and implemented without discriminatory intent but have some disproportionate effect (i.e., «disparate impact») based on race or some other legally protected class.

But left undecided, until June 2015, was whether it forbids policies that are designed and implemented without discriminatory intent but have some disproportionate effect (i.e., «disparate impact») based on race or some other legally protected class.

This report analyzes the impact of massive seniority - based layoffs» disproportionate effect on newer teachers in poorer, high - minority communities.

The Supreme Court ruled last week in a case relating to the Fair Housing Act that the law forbids policies that are designed and implemented without discriminatory intent but have some disproportionate effect (i.e., «disparate impact») based on race.

To the researchers in this camp, the answer involves improving schools, which will have a disproportionate effect on boys, rather than changing schools to be more attentive to boys» needs.

To the researchers in this camp, the answer involves improving schools, which will have a disproportionate effect on boys, rather than changing schools to be more attuned to boys» needs.

As these statistics suggest, teacher shortages often have a disproportionate effect on the most disadvantaged students.

Research on summer learning loss shows that being out of school has a disproportionate effect on low - income students.

The mathematics of compounding dictates that large losses have a disproportionate effect when it comes to amassing returns.

They may have a disproportionate effect on the market as a whole.

(Of course aggregate alpha is zero, but if a large player continues to do well, that has a disproportionate effect on the rest of the market.)

The developing global downturn is likely to have a disproportionate effect on debt - to - GDP ratios across Europe.

One, early - year results have a disproportionate effect because of the compounding returns phenomenon.

I fear that the Obama administration does not grasp that if they attempt to change certain regulations, it will have a disproportionate effect on the economy.

In fact, losses have a disproportionate effect on the portfolio compared to similar sized gains due to the compounding of median future returns.