Sentences with phrase «such disproportionate»

(The statistics tell) us that while the criminal justice system may not be perfect in other respects, it is manifestly failing the whole community when it is unable to slow such a disproportionate rate of offending and imprisonment by one particular group.

In fact, the court could award you or your spouse much more than half of your property if your circumstances make such a disproportionate award appropriate.

In fact, shoplifting, robbery and burglary put such a disproportionate strain on small firms that many disintegrate as a result.

Changes in suitable plant growing days are projected to be less severe under strong and moderate mitigation scenarios (i.e., RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5), underscoring the importance of reducing emissions to avoid such disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and people.

On a positive note, our study also indicated that projected changes in suitable plant growing days are minimal under RCP 2.6, underscoring the importance of reducing emissions to avoid such disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and people.

It perhaps makes no sense to even try to quantify the risks of nuclear power while the debate is so dominated by such a disproportionate sensitivity.

Why then, has such a disproportionate amount of critical attention been devoted to them?

This way, smaller companies with high yields do not have such a disproportionate weight in the index, and the same applies for large companies with lower yields.

The company said the rise in non-iPad alternatives was responsible for the slight decline in iPad's share of traffic on the company's network, but we were curious about why Apple has such a disproportionate share of that traffic in the first place.

«And there are so many issues and such a disproportionate rate of college completion, that a program like this certainly speaks to a need.»

One might attribute such disproportionate sports success to a mis - allocation of scarce resources by Catholic high schools and colleges.

The notion that such a small group of people can hold such disproportionate influence is intriguing, but to see that they are using it to further religious ideologies in our public schools is causing people on both sides of the argument to gear up for an academic fight.

«By implementing this plan... no group or individual would be able to easily flout the conventions and laws of our county, nor will one area be able to have such a disproportionate impact on all of our tax bills, resources, and services.

So what is it — aside perhaps from arrested development — that accounts for such disproportionate emotional investment in the ultimately insignificant?

Conservatives argue that the bulk of a tax cut should go to the wealthy since they carry such a disproportionate amount of the burden; besides, they're more likely to invest their tax cut instead of spending it, and investment is where economic growth comes from.

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But exclusive research published for the first time by Business Insider shows how ethnic minority politicians such as Abbott receive disproportionate amounts of that abuse.

At the start of June, before the new law went through, the European Commission said EU member states should avoid «imposing disproportionate obligations» on people who occasionally offer services through platforms such as Uber.

But while Apple Music includes some interesting features, such as a global radio station, the package fails to offer enough differentiation from rival services to attract a disproportionate share of the market, he said.

Such problems may include «excessive affective dependency,» disproportionate aggression, incapacity to be faithful to obligations, incapacity for openness and trust, inability to cooperate with authority and confused sexual identity...» Of course all that is true; but wouldn't half an hour with a candidate over a pint tell most of us whether there is something about him that's a bit peculiar?

On the contrary, such reforms are a godsend, for they help to diffuse a potentially damaging stigma associated with the disproportionate dependence of blacks on state - funded transfers.

Earlier I identified, in order to fault it, the conception that all modern war is inherently indiscriminate and disproportionate in its destruction, so that modern war as such must be opposed.

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

Such congregations — perhaps because they are made up of a disproportionate number of parishioners who are in management — commonly think of labor unions as corrupt and grasping.

The response to these human persons can be disproportionate, degenerating into vices such as flattery or exhibitionism, besides ingratitude.

Pope John Paul II himself has said that «a great teaching effort is needed to clarify the substantive moral difference between discontinuing medical procedures that may be burdensome, dangerous, or disproportionate to the expected outcome»» what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls «the refusal of «over «zealous» treatment» (2278)»» and taking away the ordinary means of preserving life, such as feeding, hydration, and normal medical care.»

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Their disproportionate success in national football stems from the strength of their youth system that has seen stars such as Antonio Di Natale and Luca Toni pass through its ranks.

He relates breastfeeding support in the African American community to a whole host of issues that this community faces such as the disproportionate number of African American males in the prison system.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

In order to uphold the social contract, such laws must achieve two main things: they must restrain those entities which control a disproportionate amount of data, and they must ensure the enforceability of such laws.

People seeking to access public services are already subject to various similar authentication processes, for example when applying for benefits, and I do not believe such a check, which will help to eliminate electoral fraud, is disproportionate or that it represents an invasion of privacy.

The ruling by the EU's highest court that such bulk storage of metadata is, in itself, an unjustified and disproportionate invasion of privacy and a breach of human rights is thus a vindication of our stance.

With such low voter turnout on Tuesday, the union members likely made up a disproportionate percent of the vote.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

Equally controversial was the Board's decision that mandatory labeling of meat and milk derived from descendants of cloned animals was» unnecessary and disproportionate», as was Defra's statement that such labeling would be «unenforceable and impracticable.»

The use of nuclear weapons to protect such interests is likely to be disproportionate and therefore unlawful under Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter.

It is my belief that five legislators either wholly or mostly contained within the Town of Ramapo would shift the resources of County government to Ramapo to the detriment of the other towns so that a disproportionate share of county government taxpayer money, would be spent in Ramapo such as on drainage, road improvements etc. and may not be equitably shared across town lines.

Legislator Ilan S. Schoenberger supported the measure to continue Harris Beach's services, stating that with West Gate requesting a seemingly excessive $ 5 million in damages - which Schoenberger stated was «disproportionate» to the cost of such a contract - the private firm's experience was required.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

Collegiate - level African - American women outnumber men at every economic level.6, 7 The chairwoman of Georgia's African American Male Initiative (AAMI), Arlethia Perry - Johnson, cites the disproportionate labeling of African - American men as discipline and behavioral problems at a young age as possible causes for such problems regardless of socioeconomic status.6

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

This explains why a disproportionate number of recent British jihadis have come from the same places, such as Portsmouth and Cardiff.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

With regards to human culture, great emphasis has been placed on the status or «prestige» of successful social models, such that individuals with previously demonstrated skills and knowledge earn respect and credibility, and their actions have a disproportionate influence on the behavior of others [24].

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

The cheesy hand - under - the - chin pose, the smile, the disproportionate coat, the depressing grey background, and the hair, oh the hair... Such a weird cover.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

But both of these also accurately reflect the way in which bodies of work and successful books can have a disproportionate impact on public discussion — so I'm disinclined to see any problems in such a «bias.»