Sentences with phrase «seems disproportionate»

This amount seems disproportionate to the nature of the breach, as well as to the impact it had on the applicant and the extensive steps he has had to take to try to address the problem.

However, it seems disproportionate.

If there were only 2,500 relevant documents left in the discard pile, the cost of reviewing another 950,000 documents to find 2,500 relevant ones seems disproportionate.

In particular, the obligation to disclose the establishment of a trust which occurred many years before an individual's arrival in the UK and where there may be no UK resident beneficiaries seems disproportionate.

It seems disproportionate and unlikely to achieve valuable gains for the consumer.

The number of hotels in Tulamben almost seems disproportionate to the activities offered — and it keeps growing.

Every now and then, we engineer crises that are astounding, where the beginning of the disaster seems disproportionate to the end.

To me, it seems disproportionate.

When Will reconnects with his childhood friend, the world suddenly seems disproportionate.

Ruth Sullivan noted that «though few children with celiac disease have autism, it seems a disproportionate number of autistic children have celiac.

Most of us recognise that your editorial slant is slowly moving to become more «anti-Board», and there's every reason for it to do so, but this strength of response to a fairly innocuous post seems disproportionate.

(Argumentation) This may sound strange, however a nose that is too large for a particular person's face or a bust that is too large or too small can blur all of this person's other features making them seem disproportionate.

The tightness of the visiting aunt's embrace and the wideness of her smile as she thanked me seemed disproportionate to our meager offering.

I feel obliged to mention that many (if not all) of the airports in the Caribbean impose fees that often times seem disproportionate to the value of the redemption.

To the broker, the level of punishment he risks for any infraction by his sales force must seem disproportionate to the amount of control he has over the situation.

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While the liberalizing reforms usually undermine the ability of the elite to capture a disproportionate share of growth, in other words, because the reforms often seem to encourage massive foreign capital inflows, and these push up the price of assets largely controlled by the elite, political opposition to the reforms is weakened.

To some, it must have seemed that he devoted a disproportionate amount of time to the sick.

The SSRS position also seems to put disproportionate stress on individual witness, whereas Bridgman's viewpoint went too far in the opposite direction of relegating decisions to others.

If «art» in this sense seems to take a disproportionate amount of time in sermon preparation, it can be safely assumed that this time will diminish as the process of unlearning clears away artificialities that obstruct communication.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

It seems like these teams were involved in a disproportionate number of the season's most exciting games: Iowa State with its upset of Oklahoma and last - second losses to Oklahoma State and Iowa, Memphis with its shootout win over UCLA and double - overtime loss to UCF.

I find that AP sites and discussions seem to put quite disproportionate emphasis on extended breastfeeding, babywearing and bedsharing as some kind of superior path to bonding with your child.

For whatever reason, online social networks seem to attract a disproportionate number of politically active people.

The means of protest seem to me less justified on this occasion, yet at the same time I would agree that the police action would also seem inappropriately disproportionate.

When added to the greater extremes taking place elsewhere on the campaign trail, though, even the slightest attack seemed to have a disproportionate impact on the challenger.

«While there are quite reasonable steps [in the trade union bill] to increase transparency, the main thrust of the measures seems to be both partisan and disproportionate to the supposed problems that they are seeking to address,» wrote Kerslake, who was made a life peer in March.

With Singh, there always seems to be a disproportionate compromise between the artistic imagery and an engaging story.

There is a disproportionate number of films about women in the lineup, which seems to indicate that the film that will benefit most from that would be Lady Bird.

3 Kingdoms TD drips with a level of style that seems almost disproportionate to the simplicity of the gameplay itself, but if you're going to keep things simple you may as well go hog - wild in some other way.

Though I'm no expert on foreign policy, it seems to me that many of our foreign and military policy decisions have a disproportionate impact on the small percentage of our citizenry that volunteer for military service.

«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.

The three louvers at the end of the roof seem too big, a bit crude and disproportionate to the delicacy of much of the detailing.

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.

If you haven't been following the world of rally racing for the past decade, you're probably surprised that there seems to be a disproportionate level of buzz surrounding Hyundai's return to the World Rally Championship?

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?

The large proprietary AC adaptor and plug are comically disproportionate to the slim, thin tablet and it seems mysterious that you can't use the micro USB port to charge and sync the device, which is something available on most smartphones and tablets today.

Despite that, it's worth highlighting the ISEQ still managed a 3.5 % gain for the entire first half — a nice reminder the Irish market seems to enjoy disproportionate first quarter gains nearly every single year.

But maybe I'm just over-thinking this — if it's sustained, US liquidity & bullishness seem to always spill over into emerging / frontier markets in the end, where it tends to have a disproportionate impact.

Mutilated, disproportionate corpses of decorated soldiers seemed to be bleeding out in the silliest ways possible, with long tongues out and eyes askew.

The art world a game where we never know who is winning but we continuously seem to pick up and play despite the disproportionate and absurd gestures that may be at hand.

This blog lately has attracted a disproportionate share of the latter, it seems to me.

In particular, a few computers at NASAâ $ ™ s Goddard Institute seem to be having a disproportionate effect on global warming. Anthony Watt takes a cut at an analysis I have tried myself several times, comparing raw USHCN temperature data to the final adjusted values delivered from that data by the NASA computers. My attempt at this compared the USHCN adjusted to raw for the entire US:

Accusations of racism arose in 2006 when an SRA report on ethnicity and diversity seemed to reveal a disproportionate number of investigations into BME solicitors» practices.

Seems pretty clear that absent the economic crisis and disproportionate amount his practice was contributing to the firm's profits (relative to what he was getting from it), that he wouldn't be leaving.

Similarly, it seems to me that it would be disproportionate if the questions referred to the Court had been ones concerning the right to an adequate defence, the sufficiency of the evidence or other matters included in Title VI of the Charter.

It seems, in the circumstances, disproportionate to me to give an open - ended order that all Pharmanet records, for example, some seven years, or records with Medical Services Plan going back to January 1, 2004, are proportionate to the claim as it is expressed and understood at this point.

That, it seems to me, would be disproportionate and unjustifiably intrusive.»

The fine, Puri noted, seems «grossly disproportionate» to the fine issued in a subsequent case in R. v. Niko Resources Ltd. in which the company was fined $ 9.5 million for a $ 200,000 bribe to a Bangladeshi government minister — a much higher sanction.

Other results seem to corroborate documented issues, like the disproportionate number of concussions in Massachusetts.

The company didn't seem to invest substantially in technology innovation or tech IP, and seemed to spend a disproportionate amount on suppliers.