Sentences with phrase «disproportionate percentage»

Children with persistent conduct disorder tend to remain disruptive for decades and account for a hugely disproportionate percentage of total crimes and violent acts.

Many classrooms have disproportionate percentages of student demographics and needs.

Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has decried the practice of allocating disproportionate percentage of budget on recurrent expenditures.

They form a massively disproportionate percentage of the court's daily caseload to the point where many courthouses have had to set aside an entire day each week just to deal with the volume of administrative set - date appearances.

These serious accidents are by no means evenly distributed throughout the state; a highly disproportionate percentage of pedestrian accidents occur in heavily urbanized areas.

Highly experienced members of the State Department have been a disproportionate percentage of those departures.

Muslims constitute a disproportionate percentage of the unemployed poor living in the banlieus, or suburbs, of urban sprawl.

What's key, a disproportionate percentage of green - energy job growth is occurring in politically conservative parts of the country.

The majority of Gen Yers use social media to connect with brands, though most firms still allocate a disproportionate percentage of marketing budgets to nondigital channels.M5 Gen Yers also connect to a brand through affiliation with a cause.

A disproportionate percentage of last year's growth came from precarious self - employment.

Utter destruction characterized the South Korean topography, while widows and orphans made up a disproportionate percentage of its population.

Besides reliving the horror of the infamous Honeybee Quiz (on which I'd supplied complete guesses about the honeybee life cycle, not realizing that all of the answers could be found in the paragraph at the top of the page), I concluded that teachers must love Thanksgiving, because a disproportionate percentage of the assignments I found featured handprint turkeys, cutout Pilgrim hats, feathered headbands, and colored - in drawings of Squanto that are probably legitimately offensive.

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.

Many film critics associations, however, continue to have a disproportionate percentage of voices, including Rotten Tomatoes, composed of roughly 83 percent men and only 17 percent women.

critics associations, however, continue to have a disproportionate percentage of voices, including Rotten Tomatoes, composed of roughly 83 percent men and only 17 percent women.

Like Rotten Tomatoes (which is composed of roughly 17 % women and 83 % men), many critics» associations across the country have a disproportionate percentage of female voices.

But we still actively recruit students from the court system, and we attract a disproportionate percentage of students with special needs, students who are behind in school, and those who had stopped attending school.

And when it comes to federal control, nothing is more troubling than the declaration that a disproportionate percentage of white students in Advanced Placement (AP) classes constitutes evidence of racial discrimination.

Buckskin says that's not surprising, given that «a disproportionate percentage of our people are living in low SES locations with high unemployment... experiencing the detrimental effects of poverty» and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have a strong sense of community and commitment to making the schooling of Indigenous students more culturally appropriate.

Also like Inglewood, Kirkpatrick serves a disproportionate percentage of children from low - income African - American and Hispanic households.

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.

These groups make up a disproportionate percentage of animals who die in shelters or are left on their own in areas that do not have animal services.

It wouldn't be a stretch for me to claim that a disproportionate percentage of lawyers are technologically illiterate.

The issue is of particular importance to African - Americans, who make up a disproportionate percentage of menthol smokers.

The accused argued that Aboriginal persons form a disproportionate percentage of the criminally accused relative to the general population, thereby violating his Charter right to a representative jury.

What the bill does is tighten up the language surrounding judicial discretion, so that it becomes more difficult to use an antiquated interpretation of the best interests of the child as an excuse to rationalize a disproportionate percentage of sole custody decisions in today's family courts.

The group Rhode Island Kids Count released numbers showing that a disproportionate percentage of 12 - to 18 - year - old children in the state are being placed into communal care.

These sources lag further than ours and they capture a disproportionate percentage of higher - priced homes.

On the other hand, our industry is frought with bad behavior on many levels, and I have regularly observed that there is a substantial list of agents who routinely show a disproportionate percentage of closed transactions where they are in a dual agent role.