Sentences with phrase «gives disproportionate weight»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

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!

But the approach taken by the Court of Appeal gave little weight to whether the disclosure involved a disproportionate interference with that right.