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    disproportionate


    1. It seems we are always on the look out for extenuating circumstances disproportionate to (the) codes of proper behavior


    2. exceptions, have historically committed violent crimes disproportionate to their numbers


    3. Regional (Presidential) Primaries may offer a partial solution in staving off the (disproportionate) influence of parochial designs on political candidates stumping the campaign trail by allowing them to carefully outline their positions on issues of national importance without undue pandering to special interest groups


    4. This measure, while upsetting the bi-cameral symmetry that remains the underlining genius behind our form of government, would likely invest (disproportionate) political influence in the hands of citizens residing in relatively fewer, however more densely populated states


    5. Response: A very serious one indeed! Although I am not opposed to this practice in principle, (its historical origins as they relate to proportional ethnic/racial representation have been well documented), even its most ardent detractors, however, must applaud the creative resourcefulness of those responsible for engineering such elaborate arrangements that have given rise to disproportionate (racial) representation rising well above of the national average


    6. The overwhelmingly disproportionate size of the flying palace of the Great Beast was second only to its elaborate design


    7. the part that is unjust and disproportionate to the wrong that was done


    8. The 'didn’t grab' children could have come from severe and restrictive families who placed a disproportionate emphasis on manners and politeness thus inhibiting


    9. “The disproportionate severity of punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people, and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilized Governments, barring some conspicuous exceptions recent and remote


    10. The Irish consumption of alcohol in London was disproportionate to that of any other nationality

    11. If we analysed the charts of the Priestly class (and by this we include priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, monks and swamis) I would wager that we would see a disproportionate weighting in the sign of Sagittarius and/or power in the 9th house


    12. The Pekingese dog has legs that are disproportionate in


    13. Would not King reject Planned Parenthood’s inferences that the child in the impoverished mother’s womb is the problem preventing racial equality? For instance, would not he take a stand against the abortion of a disproportionate number of black babies? The 2007 U


    14. that he had slept most of the trip, which had taken a disproportionate


    15. Undoubtedly, a third strike would have met with strong opposition and would possibly render Japanese losses disproportionate to any additional damage inflicted


    16. Therefore, taking into consideration the total tonnage of bombs dropped and the horrendous toll inflicted on Bomber Command, was the return for such prohibitive losses disproportionate? To try and answer this, it is necessary to go back to the strategy adopted by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939


    17. His fur was a dark golden color, but wherever the shadows played across it, hues of reddish brown in the subdued light created an eerie three-dimensional projection of disproportionate features


    18. The Supreme Court decided to revive the disproportionate assets case against her


    19. He got disproportionate coverage because he was, after all, the newsmaker number one


    20. The disproportionate size of the

    21. The amount of time they spend on attempting to change the other party’s view is hugely disproportionate to their odds of succeeding to that aim


    22. Haven’t you heard the jargon of the incometax wallahs, assets disproportionate to the known sources of income? Let them catch me if they can


    23. Aazuria was stricken by the disproportionate size of the woman’s breasts with respect to the rest of her emaciated body; she remembered something her personal doctor had told her about new procedures which augmented certain physical attributes


    24. It was a disproportionate reaction, the kind of thing a stupid bully would do


    25. approach is considered necessary to avoid disproportionate cost to banks and a


    26. believed, gossiping is more about disproportionate smoke of the actual fire and he had no


    27. feel increased pain and tenderness that is disproportionate to the amount of


    28. This was evident from anger, aggression towards others, the loss of sense of humour and a disproportionate sense of reality


    29. This is why the discrepancy between what happened during the first instant and everything else which happened after it seems so disproportionate


    30. � For every ugly and aggressive action an actor commits toward another, the actor undergoes a dis-equal and disproportionate ugly and aggressive set of feelings within

    31. Then, looking at them all with his disproportionate eyes: "But only while they are asleep


    32. This is a fact most noteworthy, for it has had this effect, that in no place where the Bible in its integrity has been popularly read has the doctrine of evil spirits usurped a disproportionate share of attention, or debased the public mind through the pressure of an overwhelming burden of gloom


    33. The history of modern reforms in the criminal law demonstrates how much greater a deterring power is possessed by certainty and nearness than by disproportionate and indefinite or dubious terribleness, in a threat


    34. With one consent men think it incredible, disproportionate, unreal; the more you educate them the more they think so; and the present result is a more thorough freedom from anxiety about judgment to come, and sense of the 'evil of sin,’ than has perhaps ever been seen before


    35. The author traces this comparative apathy in part to a disproportionate devotion to the prosecution of the Home


    36. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own


    37. These were strange, as if disproportionate thoughts to the matter in hand, which was the simplest sort of a Continental holiday


    38. And our answer will be that, even as they are, our guardians may very likely be the happiest of men; but that our aim in founding the State was not the disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole; we thought that in a State which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole we should be most likely to find justice, and in the ill-ordered State injustice: and, having found them, we might then decide which of the two is the happier


    39. Although there was in these words a flavor of that sentimental emotion at her own lofty feelings, and that new mystical fervor which had lately gained ground in Petersburg, and which seemed to Alexey Alexandrovitch disproportionate, still it was pleasant to him to hear this


    40. The house had originally been two stories high but the upper floor had been destroyed by shells during the siege and the owner, returning after the surrender, had lacked the first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child’s playhouse money to replace it

    41. For Bulstrode shrank from a direct lie with an intensity disproportionate to the number of his more indirect misdeeds


    42. The theory was that the practice would make troops less reactive, and therefore less vulnerable to the classic insurgent tactic of provoking the types of disproportionate responses that alienate the civilian population


    43. The tremendously disproportionate rise in the common-stock value was due to the following elements, in order of importance:


    44. 1 This subject is treated at what may appear to be disproportionate length because of the growing importance of privileged issues and the absence of thoroughgoing discussion thereof in the standard descriptive textbooks


    45. We must start this section with the important disclaimer that it does not apply to the large majority of well-established funds, but only to a relatively small section of the industry which has attracted a disproportionate amount of attention


    46. This led to large commitments in newer ventures at prices completely disproportionate to their assets or recorded earnings


    47. Therefore, approximately two thirds of Southwest Airlines’ costs are fixed and one third are variable, which means if sales were to drop, this would have a disproportionate effect on the earnings of the business compared to a business that has largely variable costs


    48. The disproportionate number of reversal patterns is typical


    49. She then advised him that his racing heart was warning him that he was taking on a disproportionate amount of risk compared to the faith in his trading system


    50. The fact that the short straddles have an average return similar to that of the long straddles despite their much higher median return and hit ratio indicates that the occasional large losses have a disproportionate impact on the performance of short straddles








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    Synonyms for "disproportionate"

    disproportionate disproportional irregular jagged rough unequal unsymmetrical asymmetric

    "disproportionate" definitions

    out of proportion


    not proportionate