Sentences with phrase «getting disproportionate»

If Ford seems like it's getting a disproportionate amount of bad publicity for its hybrids and infotainment systems, there's a reason: Ford is pushing harder than any other US automaker to redefine the car and the driving experience, especially in making entertainment and navigation useful and affordable.

Perhaps the responses are so profound and unexpected that these stories are getting disproportionate attention.

«But if you're getting a disproportionate amount of phosphorus compared to the amount of calcium you're getting, that could lead to bone loss.»

«The best way to get a disproportionate amount of business relative to the size of your organization is through relationships and trust,» he says.

When a baby is only nursing for a short time on each breast, she will get a disproportionate amount of foremilk and hindmilk, which is not ideal for growth and development.

He revisits a long - running, popular belief in Western New York that downstate gets a disproportionate amount to Albany's dollars.

Western New York also gets a disproportionate share in human services spending, which includes child welfare, food stamps, foster care and more.

So a tiny tip rip gets a disproportionate number of nociceptors, none of which knows the difference between a vacation brochure and a samurai sword.

And when you're consuming these aforementioned processed foods, you start to get a disproportionate amount of bad bacteria for your good bacteria.

«But we urgently need a fair and transparent process for allocating capital money to the schools which teach the vast majority of the children, not the tiny numbers of free schools which seem to get disproportionate attention,» he added.

If we start looking back to the kindle book offers in the last few weeks a few questions come up — Why do Mondays seem to get a disproportionate number of offers?

This type of mistake helped me realise that one can get disproportionate payoffs by staying invested in high quality businesses for a long time.

11) Multiple - player game theory indicates that to win, you assemble a coalition with more than 50 % of all of the power, and you get disproportionate benefits.

It appears that it affects dogs that get a disproportionate amount of their calories from treats, as opposed to traditional commercial dog food.

Pluralistic ignorance follows when a noisy minority opinion gets disproportionate play in public debate − that is, when people who thought they were in a majority begin to feel inhibited.

Most climate models show the most warming on dry winter nights (Siberian winters, for example, get a disproportionate share of the warming).

People don't write Letters to the Editor when they are happy about something, so we do get a disproportionate number of negative comments.

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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.

Pershing Square said it was getting out of the investment because it now represented a small percentage of the fund assets, while sucking up a disproportionate amount of the fund's time and effort.

«Or take the disproportionate amount of unpaid family care - taking duties women do, like making sure kids get to school happy and healthy in the first place.»

I think a lot of these business models are moving towards a higher percentage of subscriptions, where the people who are getting the most value from you are contributing a disproportionate amount to the revenue.

On an anecdotal level, a disproportionate number of the people on our BNN TV show The Disruptors are immigrants or second - generation immigrants who exemplify a culture of entrepreneurship and are hungry to get ahead.

«In a world where you've got a finite number of dollars you can dedicate to tax reform, if you have one year on the front end that's completely unpaid for, it ends up consuming a disproportionate amount of total resources available,» he said.

@ Kenrick I need some help with the above formula because you really can not divide eternity by a cardinal number however we could fold eternity 7 times and get a good approximation of the disproportionate risk Chuckles takes by living only for today.

Amedore then tells a group of voters that «we're tired of having this disproportionate representation, always taking care of New York City, and upstate New York only getting crumbs.»

Therefore, polling stations which functioned throughout the entire day would show a disproportionate turnout as they would have gotten additional votes from people who were turned away from their assigned polling stations.

The government hopes that changing the system will help get more people from more deprived backgrounds into Britain's top universities, many of which are still taking a disproportionate number of students from the private sector.

Our company's biggest lever is that it is world - renowned; we get covered by the press all over the world, and small actions on our part can often influence disproportionate change.

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.

Disproportionate muscle growth, or having muscles on one side of the body grow more than on the other, is a normal problem in natural bodybuilding that beginners who are just getting started encounter.

She had a mastectomy for perfectly good reasons and then went and got huge, disproportionate implants... weird.

At the same time, those who claim to really «get» Anderson, making him one of those filmmakers whose high IMDb vote count is disproportionate to modest attendance levels, may be overly forgiving.

The film's star is the kind of actress who's perhaps never quite gotten her due, inspiring a disproportionate amount of negativity from those who've taken against her.

The effort it would take to call upon the emotion necessary to get angry at the joke and its ilk would be completely disproportionate to the effort Sandler, his co-screenwriters Fred Wolf and Tim Herlihy, and director Dennis Dugan have put into the movie.

A slow end credits scroll runs a disproportionate six minutes, leaving only 21 for the show itself, a standard half - hour of commercial airtime these days but not enough to do much with, especially when it takes a little while to get reacquainted with characters who aren't as familiar as, say, the Shrek cast.

The current research consensus points to high - poverty schools facing disproportionate challenges: that is, to get the same outcome, they need more resources per student — and per poor student.

Boston — Hispanic youths here have difficulty getting jobs because of «the disproportionate way in which they are dropping out of the Boston Public Schools» before they have acquired the requisite education and skills.

A get - tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero - tolerance policies don't make schools safer and lead to disproportionate discipline for students of color.

I spent the next seven years pressing for reform from the outside — most of my reform efforts were aimed at getting a curriculum, stopping the disproportionate disciplining of African - American students, and the over-identification of special ed students (almost a quarter of the student body).

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

Looking at achievement - gap data, Superintendent Runcie said one of the first things he noticed was the large number of students being arrested for misdemeanor offenses they committed in school, such as throwing spitballs, getting into shoving matches, or cursing — and in particular, the disproportionate number of arrests of African - American males.

Teachers of color push within their unions to raise issues affecting English - language learners getting reclassified as fluent or decrying the disproportionate numbers of Black students in special education or being disciplined.

The segment's disproportionate sales mix is dominated by Hyundai and Toyota, the remaining seven entrants barely getting a look - in.

Practically everyone here at the book expo believes that Amazon has gotten too big, that they wield a disproportionate amount of power, and that they must be reigned in or defeated.

These numbers are important because they suggest that FHA borrowers are running into tough times — but that a disproportionate number are getting past their late payments and not being foreclosed.

The adding of money late, and the disproportionate selling after the problems of 2011 led the dollar weighted returns, which is what the average investors get, to lag those of the buy - and - hold investors by 5.57 % / year over the period that I studied.

Similarly, an adequate diversification is a way to protect your portfolio from getting dragged down by one stock which forms a disproportionate part of your portfolio, a bottleneck.

Therefore, if your income is vastly disproportionate to the amount you owe, you may have trouble getting a plan agreed upon.

Surely, if only Nintendo released a Mario game for the iPhone, people would see that it was possible to make money on iOS with real games that didn't rely on gambling mechanics to get whales to spend disproportionate amounts of money?

In the ongoing battle between climate scientists and skeptics there will be disproportionate carnage, because the climate scientists have so much more to lose... for climate science I fully expect things to get worse before they get better, simply because the most vocal, politically active climate scientists have shown no skill at operating in the political arena.»