Sentences with phrase «give disproportionate»

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

The bill would give disproportionate benefits to wealthy Americans, who tend to benefit from corporate tax cuts more than non-wealthy Americans and who could likely exploit the pass - through rate by setting up dummy corporations.

It is doubly disconcerting given the disproportionate impact energy prices have on economies — especially economies in desperate need of fuel - injection themselves.

But that deduction still gives disproportionate benefit to the rich, just because the rich earn the majority of pass - through income.

By having kids, we're making a huge impact on the environment, especially in the US given our disproportionate use of resources.

Finally, Google gives a disproportionate amount of weight to the page title — not the title in the body of the page, but the html title in the page heading (which shows up in the little bar at the very top of the browser window).

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The map, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, «consolidated the Federalist Party vote in a few districts and thus gave disproportionate representation to Democratic - Republicans.»

Spending cuts are likely to hit Wales especially hard given the disproportionate size of the public sector compared to other parts of the country.

Conversely, the electoral division you live in might be on a knife edge, giving disproportionate weight to the small number of votes that can tip the balance.

The researchers suggest that both NAPLAN and ATAR are given disproportionate weight and are driving the priorities of teachers, school leaders and education departments.

What Austrians call the higher - order stages of production, the stages farthest removed from finished consumer goods, are more interest - rate sensitive, and will therefore be given disproportionate stimulus by the Fed's policy of lowering interest rates.

This process inherently gives disproportionate weight to quantitative data and economic costs, while diminishing the perceived importance of qualitative benefits such as saving lives, maintaining the equilibrium of the global eco-system, and protecting wild places

One result is that in their efforts to provide «balanced coverage,» U.S. media have given disproportionate attention to the skeptics, creating the impression of less scientific consensus on global warming than exists within the mainstream scientific community.

Pluralistic ignorance describes the phenomenon which arises when a minority opinion is given disproportionate prominence in public debate, resulting in the majority of people incorrectly assuming their opinion is marginalized.

The court also found a violation of Art 8 given the disproportionate interference with the applicant's right to respect for his private life caused by the fact that the Russian order had rendered him legally incapable in all respects.

Here is my comment on this as this is a matter that will undoubtedly have an adverse effect on aboriginal people given their disproportionate representation in the criminal justice system.

However, the Supreme Court of Canada has previously stated that «no one Bardal factor should be given disproportionate weight».

These findings are consistent with expectations and previous research but should be considered with caution given the disproportionate representation of women in the current sample.

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Consequently, given ESPN's fixed cost structure and variable revenue model, subscriber losses are likely to have a disproportionate impact on the business model.»

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.

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.

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides... Read more

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides a nice, deep dive into the issue.

Negotiations of the EU-U.S. trade deal, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, may have hit a snag after a leaked document appears to give the U.S. and large corporations disproportionate weight in future trade decisions.

For most of them, though disconnected in terms of not owning a laptop or desktop computer, their disproportionate ownership of mobile phones is a central entry point into crypto, giving them the potential to add mining revenues to the money they use to live every day.

Their ability to communicate across racial lines and the cultural expectation that they do so has given them social and political clout disproportionate to their numbers.

The attention given to judicial execution, however, is altogether disproportionate to the body count.

For instance: giving up a disproportionate number of corner threes (which tend to be role player - ish shots) while allowing the fewest total P&R ball - handler points in the league (which tend to be star - type shots).

Unless you set yourself to concentrate on counting the number of [events] in a given game and actually record them somewhere, you're often going to come away with wildly disproportionate ideas about what happens.

This is because a disproportionate ratio of foremilk and hindmilk can give your baby digestive issues.

War would be disproportionate - not to mention silly, to say nothing about futile given Russia's nuclear arsenal.

They'll derive their power from the fact that individual links between users generally do reflect real social relationships, and that we give communications from trusted sources disproportionate weight.

It was the disproportionate weight given to MPs» votes that made the result so close.

Tony Blair, defending FPTP, argued that other systems give small parties the balance of power, and influence disproportionate to their votes.

--RRB- The winner - takes - all - electors in a state system is also a means by which smaller states gain disproportionate representation and it also helps create a mandate for the President by giving the winner a big majority in the electoral college.

While religious leaders are as entitled as anyone else to express their views about the Assisted Dying Bill - about to be debated in Parliament - there is no doubt the media give the opinions of «faith leaders» disproportionate prominence.

And it may assign developing countries a junior position within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change body responsible for advising on implementation and technological and scientific questions, giving researchers from wealthier countries a disproportionate say in that body's conclusions.

Given limited public knowledge about the details of nuclear energy and encumbered access to disaster sites, the media have disproportionate power around the globe to shape public knowledge, perception, and reaction to nuclear crises, Pascale said.

The 2015 paper has been considered «highly cited» by Clarivate Analytics» Web of Science, formerly part of Thomson Reuters, meaning it has received a disproportionate amount of cites given its field and publication year.

This disproportionate weight displacement increases the difficulty of normal movements, stressing all sixty - nine muscles in the hand and forearms — giving you a grip worthy of Mjolnir!

This alarmingly prevailing idea that this movie somehow proves that women can too be funny is a pretty insulting thing, but the fact remains that a disproportionate amount of movies with female leads tend to be cloying tripe that hide behind the firewall of the «Chick Flick,» a bullshit subgenre classification invented to give an excuse for women to like crappy rom - coms and men to avoid great ones.

The departments, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, gave the school districts «guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline,» telling them they risked legal action if school disciplinary policies had «a disparate impact, i.e., a disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

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.

Some cities are addressing inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.

States and territories provide almost 70 % of all government funding for schools, of which 90 % is rightly directed to public schools, given the sector's responsibility for universal education access and its disproportionate share of disadvantaged students.

That report did not escape the attention of North Carolina's education leaders, particularly given the fact that the state's largest school system, Wake County, is among multiple systems accused by leaders in the state NAACP of disproportionate suspension practices.

So what advice would Beaverton give to other districts ready to reduce exclusionary and disproportionate discipline trends?

At a time when school districts across the United States are introducing digital learning tools for the classroom and many teachers give online homework assignments, new research suggests that the digital divide among teenagers may be taking a disproportionate toll on their homework as well.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.