Sentences with phrase «disproportionate influence»

He cites the group's disproportionate influence on technology, social media, fashion and other sectors.

This is especially the case when, for reasons of law or practicality, corporations have disproportionate influence in shaping global agreements.

Trade union leaders remain under fire for exercising disproportionate influence over Labour: not all of their members vote Labour, but their numbers count in shaping policy and pre-selections.

«We have less social mobility now than we had in prior generations, and, more than ever before, a greater concentration of wealth is in the hands of the few... As our political system becomes less democratic — with wealthy donors and well - funded special - interest lobby groups exercising disproportionate influence on elections and legislation — we have experienced a democratisation of the signifiers of wealth.

Chavez's opponents — relatively few in number but overwhelmingly rich - wield disproportionate influence in Venezuelan politics.

But New York has a long history of minor parties pushing narrow issues or ideologies, then achieving disproportionate influence by pledging their ballot lines to major - party pols — in return for future considerations.

I like to think of this approach as «asymmetric warfare»: a small entity exerting disproportionate influence over a much larger, stronger entity.

I certainly see no advantage in «alienating» the rural voters, but I AM a little tired of how disproportionate their influence is on government decisions.

The notion that such a small group of people can hold such disproportionate influence is intriguing, but to see that they are using it to further religious ideologies in our public schools is causing people on both sides of the argument to gear up for an academic fight.

If entrepreneurs want to continue spearheading Lightning development, they will have to avoid aligning themselves with any party seeking disproportionate influence.

The problem becomes really serious when those self - interested views tend to have disproportionate influence on the policy - makers and that is happening at the present time... particularly because there is not an effective countering of those kinds of views.»

Mr. Felder, a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans and therefore allows them to sit in the majority in the Senate, often wields disproportionate influence in the Legislature.

As long as big dollar donors wield disproportionate influence over our politics, we will never truly have a government for and by the people,» said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY.

Sky - high contribution limits — $ 41,000 for statewide races in the general election — mean that candidates spend more time courting big donors, who in turn exercise disproportionate influence over policy - making.

It is an artistic field in which Britain exercises disproportionate influence.

Affluent people — say, those with family incomes between $ 100,000 and $ 300,000 — have disproportionate influence in tax - policy debates, even greater than the influence of the very rich.

He also has 35 percent of its common stock, which grants him disproportionate influence in company votes.

Yellen is not necessarily the median dot but has disproportionate influence.

Several of the interviews with independent directors revealed that family members can often have a disproportionate influence on independent board decisions.

He has a disproportionate influence on some sectors and you are foolishly ignoring that because of your prejudices.

There is a danger, therefore, that television and the television industry have a disproportionate influence in setting the agenda for the churches in their understanding of their mission, the presentation of their message, and the basis of their interaction with each other.

Why Spoiled Babies Grow Up to Be Smarter, Kinder Kids Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life - even prenatal life - can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life - even prenatal life - can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

Union barons wielded disproportionate influence, deciding at the stroke of a pen what their thousands of members apparently believed.

As vapid and self - impressed as these shows often are (they usually resemble Kabuki theater more than any form of meaningful political discourse), they still have a disproportionate influence on the direction of our political discussion, and by ignoring an issue they can help to bury it.

Ensure the representation in Parliament of significant minorities, but not give them disproportionate influence

And because each vote counts for so much more, mainstream parties contort themselves to look like the parties that are «stealing their votes» — just look at the disproportionate influence of Ukip.

Conversations on their sites can thus have a disproportionate influence on local influentials and opinion leaders.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

It is barred by regulation from conducting itself with the same bias as the press, but it still deals with a political culture in which the press has a disproportionate influence on events.

Sadly, the debate is distorted by the disproportionate influence of the zealots.

Because megafauna have a disproportionate influence on ecosystem structure and function, past and present body size downgrading is reshaping Earth's biosphere.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

The principal continues to have a disproportionate influence upon the health of a school and upon the learning of youngsters — for better for worse.

High prices have a disproportionate influence on returns.

Our problems stem from the disproportionate influence the show ring has on the breed as, although falconers in particular have many working dogs, very few are competed with.

The hoax was timed to coincide with the opening of a major United Nations climate summit in Bali in an effort to expose the disproportionate influence of large corporations on the climate negotiations and the lack of initiative from corporations on reducing fossil fuel use.

The warmest year to date did occur in 1998, but that was largely due to the disproportionate influence of the El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signal, as RealClimate's Gavin Schmidt noted last year.

A minority group out of kilter with the rest of the populace and the scientific community are exerting a disproportionate influence on the public discourse about climate change.

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.

These «scandals» are yet another clear illustration of their disproportionate influence in our society... and of their obvious detriment.