Using "disproportionate" in a sentence

Similarly, more fundamental outcomes like student exposure to coding or discussions of new technology in class (which contrast with the capstone AP CS outcomes in our data) may be more likely to have a disproportionate impact on underrepresented groups, narrowing formative exposure gaps.
Source: Brookings Institution

They would have to bring in a disproportionate amount of refrigerators to store the beer at the concessions.
Source: The New York Times

Webster’s Dictionary describes Nyctophobia as an irrational or disproportionate fear of night or nighttime darkness.
Source: The Atlanta Voice

Due to the disproportionate impact surgical services have to an organization’s top and bottom line, there’s not only money to be gained, but there are also savings to be generated.
Source: Modern Healthcare

Photo-assisted graphitization of native wood by means of femtosecond laser systems was suggested to minimize thermal damage, but satisfactory electrical conductivity could only be achieved with low engraving speeds (from 5 to 15 mm s−1) resulting in disproportionate process times.
Source: Nature.com

42 Apart from the vastly disproportionate number of incidents, there is another crucial difference between left- and right-wing violence from a democracy standpoint.
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Additionally, the team at Mower wanted to wean the industry off a disproportionate dependence on analytics alone.
Source: Backstage

The thought behind the idea was admirable, but the results, so far at least, are disappointing, looking at the disproportionate numbers of outstanding work by both male and female actors this year that were left out in this divide.
Source: Deadline

A disproportionate amount of marketing dollars are spent on just a fraction of the world's wines.
Source: CNET

Mayor Indya Kincannon’s legal department is pushing for disproportionate punishment for the violations.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

The data show that the disproportionate storms in the Southern Hemisphere have been increasing as the climate changes.
Source: EarthSky

Merkley pointed to mining facilities being powered by fossil fuels in a statement, saying this practice "has an environmental impact on climate chaos equivalent to putting 30 million gas-burning cars on the road! And a lot of that fossil electricity is generated at power plants that have a disproportionate impact on disadvantaged and frontline communities, making bad environmental justice issues worse.
Source: CoinDesk

Consumerism — particularly disproportionate use and spending — contributes to climate change and wealth inequality, according to the United Nations.
Source: The Badger Herald

A disproportionate amount of marketing dollars are spent on just a fraction of the world's wines.
Source: CNET

I could get overwhelmed by a lot of very small, disproportionate things," she told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
Source: Music Times

 Further, Aries rules the head and the symbol for Arby’s is an iconic albeit disproportionate cowboy hat.
Source: New York Post

Also: Metaverse: Momentum is building, but companies are still staying cautiousWith remote and hybrid work now firmly established, attention is turning to the issue of proximity bias – the idea that in-office workers have disproportionate influence and enjoy greater professional success simply because they are more 'present' in the workplace, including in meetings, than remote employees.
Source: ZDNet

Burdened by disproportionate rates of addiction, mental health disorders and chronic disease, people experiencing homelessness are some of the state’s neediest patients, but few receive anything more than emergency services.
Source: The Union

The letter highlights concern about health impacts from exposure to methane as well as disproportionate effects on communities of color.
Source: Kayo Sports

It's probably going take a disproportionate amount of his attention over the near term.
Source: Markets Insider

A ProPublica story in September showed pollution from Bluestone had a disproportionate impact on the Black neighborhoods surrounding the plant.
Source: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Given the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on families, the nation’s children are in crisis, and the impact of this surge may be felt for decades.
Source: STAT

RDDC brings together health and diversity advocates, rare disease specialists and industry leaders to identify and advocate for evidenced-based solutions to alleviate the disproportionate burden of rare diseases on communities of color.
Source: Fox Business

In particular, the Constitution’s “3/5ths clause” and the allocation of two senators to all states gave disproportionate power to small-population southern states.
Source: POLITICO

What does USNWR measure in assessing the country’s “best” medical schools? It relies on these data points: Federal research dollars, for which it gives a disproportionate preference to larger schools over smaller, while at no point considering what benefit is accruing to medical students or how this flow of research dollars into an institution supports their experiences or education or even their participation in this research enterprise.
Source: STAT

Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who serves as vice chair on the House Environment Committee, plans to propose legislation that would require state regulators to analyze whether permits related to solid waste, air emissions, water quality and animal waste would have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and low-income communities.
Source: Triad City Beat

Dean Preston, a supervisor who opposes the use of robots as deadly force, said the policy will "place Black and brown people in disproportionate danger of harm or death.
Source: Engadget

The DSK goes on to claim that only the wording had changed, noting: "However, according to Microsoft, it has not made any adjustments to the actual processing," and that the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) of 2018 and FISA 702 provided "disproportionate access rights for US secret services [providing].
Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Most pressing, major civil rights legislation was being hotly debated in Congress while the Supreme Court had just scrapped Georgia’s county unit electoral system, akin to a county-based electoral college that gave disproportionate weight to voters in the state’s many rural, predominantly White counties.
Source: The Washington Post

He said he voted against the budget because of the disproportionate benefit that Charleston County residents receive from the sales tax rebate when property taxes increase.
Source: Charleston Post Courier

However, one of the symptoms of global biodiversity decline is trophic downgrading: the disproportionate loss of species occupying the higher trophic levels of ecosystems.
Source: Mongabay.com

“If you know a Black vegan or a Black vegan business owner, it is likely that they’ve had to overcome [systemic food disparity, disproportionate health issues and cultural connections] to become Black and vegan,” Sams said in her Cincy VegFest talk.
Source: Cincinnati CityBeat

  Dean Preston, one of the supervisors who oppose the use of robots as a deadly force option, said the policy will "place Black and brown people in disproportionate danger of harm or death.
Source: Engadget

And he was a target of police harrassment disproportionate to his crimes under the jurisdiction of notorious Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio.
Source: The FADER

The complaint alleges that when Musk asked employees to agree to work in the office 24/7 or else voluntarily leave their jobs, “Musk would certainly have known that these policy changes and expectations would have a disproportionate impact on women, who are more often caregivers for children and other family members, and thus not able to comply with such demands.
Source: Ars Technica

  Islands support some of the most valuable ecosystems on Earth, with a disproportionate amount of rare plants, animals, communities, and cultures found nowhere else.
Source: today.ucsd.edu

Some economists speculate that the disproportionate decline could be because the age group has been buffeted by repeated crises, making their labor market footing fragile.
Source: Yahoo News

In 1992, he drew a man saying his bedside prayers: “And may we continue to be worthy of consuming a disproportionate share of the planet’s resources.
Source: The Washington Post

42 Usually, the disproportionate exposure of people of color to air pollution and other pollutants is due to the close proximity of racially segregated neighborhoods to highways, industrial plants, and other sources of pollution.
Source: Center For American Progress

In a fair world we'd have more of a means for removing people from hierarchies who remove disproportionate value from others.
Source: Nintendo Life

Burdened by disproportionate rates of addiction, mental health disorders and chronic disease, people experiencing homelessness are some of the state’s neediest patients, but few receive anything more than emergency services.
Source: Jefferson Public Radio

“The policy entails identification of low income or minority communities that may bear a disproportionate share of the adverse environmental impacts of a project.
Source: Times Union

A disproportionate amount of marketing dollars are spent on just a fraction of the world's wines.
Source: CNET

They also asserted that a disproportionate amount of the university’s payroll went for administrators’ salaries.
Source: KATV

“Any events or circumstances that negatively impact our FIFA franchise, such as product or service quality, other products that take a portion of consumer spending and time, the delay or cancellation of a product or service launch, increased competition for key licenses, or real or perceived security risks, could negatively impact our financial results to a disproportionate extent,” EA said in its annual report.
Source: Maine Edge

Because he gets disproportionate attention (not always for his leadership), his style receives a kind of implicit validation.
Source: Smartbrief

A disproportionate number of those are in rural areas, where a low population density dissuades private companies from setting up broadband infrastructure.
Source: Android Police

The order states, in part: ”A court may not impose a sentence of life without parole on a defendant who was under 18 years of age at the time of his crime unless the prosecution has overcome its burden to rebut the presumption, by clear and convincing evidence, that life without parole is a disproportionate sentence…Because the sentencing court in this case was not operating within this framework, the defendant is entitled to resentencing.
Source: Oakland Press

  Dean Preston, one of the supervisors who oppose the use of robots as a deadly force option, said the policy will "place Black and brown people in disproportionate danger of harm or death.
Source: Engadget

They introduce a disproportionate and unjustified blanket ban on all pro-life activity, including offering meaningful charitable help and support to women where they need it most,” McLatchie said.
Source: Catholic News Agency

"Small lakes emit a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gases because they typically accumulate more organic matter, which is converted into gases.
Source: EurekAlert

The disproportionate access of US security services to European bulk data, first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013, was one of the crucial reasons why the transfer of personal data across the Atlantic was deemed illegal by the EU Court of Justice twice in the landmark Schrems rulings.
Source: EURACTIV

The charismatic orchid now commands millions of dollars in research funding, a disproportionate amount when compared to money apportioned to humbler-looking plant families.
Source: Sierra Club

SOCIAL JUSTICE Aftershock (HULU) The families of two Black women who die in childbirth sound a rallying cry for the disproportionate number of POC women failed by the maternal health industry each year in Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt’s incendiary documentary.
Source: Screen Rant

“The breadth and depth of its scientific expertise make the USGS ideally positioned to address these big questions and fill the science gaps to increase our understanding of PFAS movement, occurrence and distribution, notwithstanding the disproportionate impact on rural and inner-city communities.
Source: United States Geological Survey (.gov)

 The police launch an investigation into Amy’s whereabouts, with her status as minor literary celebrity causing a disproportionate stir in the media.
Source: Indie Film Hustle

Secondly, on the smaller canvas of chamber music, Carlos Simon’s “Requiem for the Enslaved” called for just seven performers but its deftly conceived layering of rap, spoken word, solo trumpet writing, and chamber music for piano and quartet, made an impression far disproportionate to its size.
Source: The Boston Globe

There is a disproportionate increased impact of lung infections and cancer in individuals over the age of 65 -- by the way, that's going to be 20% of the population in the next 30 years.
Source: Medpage Today

That’s where the disproportionate dollars need to be spent right now, and there are only so many options available.
Source: Psychology Today

Historically, that meant a disproportionate sales hit when gas prices spiked.
Source: AdAge.com

'It is unacceptable for Arizona to continue to carry a disproportionate burden of reductions for the benefit of others who have not contributed,' Ted Cooke, general manager of the Central Arizona Project, said in a statement.
Source: Daily Mail

And then there are the uncountable corporations who don’t quite meet the extraordinarily high standards required by US antitrust law to earn that label, but which also use their control over choke points to siphon away a disproportionate share of value, particularly from other people’s labor.
Source: The Real News Network

In his view, capitalism has proved to be highly effective at raising living standards, but it is a system that gives people an incentive to excel, and a few are always going to prosper to a disproportionate degree.
Source: The New York Times

In a statement, the ministers said: “The European Union strongly condemns the widespread, brutal and disproportionate use of force by the Iranian authorities against peaceful protesters, including women and children, leading to the loss of hundreds of lives”.
Source: Al Arabiya English

For the European Parliament’s rapporteur Dita Charanzová, the idea of extending periodic safety checks to every product post-market launch, even on products like books and paper clips, is disproportionate.
Source: EURACTIV

His work emphasizes the cruel tension between Johannesburg’s large reservoir of gold (often referred to as the “gold city”) and the disproportionate access to those resources available to citizens, said gallery representative Igsaan Martin.
Source: Artsy

In the midst of legal apartheid and systemic racism, disproportionate poverty rates and mass incarceration, generations of Black men have been raised to believe that success in life includes protecting the honor of one’s spouse and defending one’s family from danger in a white-controlled society.
Source: The Associated Press en Español

“Communities of color, particularly Hispanic or Latino and African American or Black people, face a disproportionate burden of kidney disease and kidney failure,” Longino said, as reported by the foundation on Thursday.
Source: TheGrio

Burdened by disproportionate rates of substance use disorders, mental health disorders and chronic disease, people experiencing homelessness are some of the state’s neediest patients, but few receive anything more than emergency services.
Source: KQED

Despite the disproportionate impact COVID-19 had on our regional economy, the Nashville area currently boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates of any large metro in the US.
Source: Tennessean

Kentucky generally receives a disproportionate share of federal dollars compared with other states partly because of its significant poverty levels, Voss said.
Source: Courier Journal

Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who serves as vice chair on the House Environment Committee, plans to propose legislation that would require state regulators to analyze whether permits related to solid waste, air emissions, water quality and animal waste would have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and low-income communities.
Source: ncpolicywatch.com

“A court may not impose a sentence of life without parole on a defendant who was under 18 years of age at the time of his crime unless the prosecution has overcome its burden to rebut the presumption, by clear and convincing evidence, that life without parole is a disproportionate sentence,” the justices wrote in their opinion.
Source: MLive.com

Though their disproportionate greenhouse gas emissions are largely to blame for poorer countries' disproportionate suffering, their funding for developing nations to weather the storm is far below what's needed – and eventually, that may come back to bite everyone.
Source: Salon

Over time, that meant that the air, water, and soil pollution from these facilities was leading to disproportionate rates of health issues like cancer among the area’s residents.
Source: World Wildlife Fund

"This is the reason why we need to continue to push our message of social equity to make sure Black entrepreneurs are given a fair opportunity to operate in a space that has been built on injustice," he said, pointing to the disproportionate impact the war on drugs — a movement started in the 1970s to combat illegal drugs — had on Black communities.
Source: Detroit Free Press

Globally there is a trend towards ‘trophic downgrading’, a term referring to the disproportionate loss of the world’s largest animals.
Source: SciTechDaily

Burdened by disproportionate rates of addiction, mental health disorders and chronic disease, people experiencing homelessness are some of the state’s neediest patients, but few receive anything more than emergency services.
Source: KPBS

Dragalia never felt like it had aggressive or disproportionate monetisation -- but this probably meant that revenues dropped off a cliff long before player numbers did, as people realised that almost all characters, items and other aspects of the game were perfectly accessible without paying.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz

In their book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, the University of Washington professor Gregg Colburn and the data scientist Clayton Page Aldern demonstrate that “the homelessness crisis in coastal cities cannot be explained by disproportionate levels of drug use, mental illness, or poverty.
Source: The Atlantic

So, while the actual numbers are low among a force of more than a million active duty troops, experts have argued that service members and veterans involved in extremist groups pose a disproportionate security risk for multiple reasons.
Source: NavyTimes.com

Did he have any concerns about the disproportionate number of African Americans in Kligman’s original protocol? And why did Dow accept minimal evidence of informed consent? “I didn’t have too much of a problem with Kligman’s operation in that regard.
Source: Quillette

In other words, the disproportionate reactions that these actions provoke are at the very heart of the issue that the activists are trying to highlight.
Source: Notes E-Flux

Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who serves as vice chair on the House Environment Committee, plans to propose legislation that would require state regulators to analyze whether permits related to solid waste, air emissions, water quality and animal waste would have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and low-income communities.
Source: The Connecticut Mirror

"Small lakes emit a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gasses because they typically accumulate more organic matter, which is converted into gasses," says Tang.
Source: ScienceAlert

But Ms McNeill says the issue isn't that law breakers can't be punished, it's how disproportionate the punishments are.
Source: BBC

A disproportionate amount of marketing dollars are spent on just a fraction of the world's wines.
Source: CNET

“Imagine the possibilities when the physical and digital worlds can finally interact seamlessly, without you craning your neck to look down at a phone,” Meta wrote in a press release, noting the disproportionate neck problems among people who own iPhones and Android devices.
Source: Kotaku

Lately, there has been a shortage of critical components, an increase in shipping times, and a disproportionate increase in transportation prices that have affected the production and supply of goods.
Source: Maersk

"Markets where home prices shot the highest are now vulnerable to a disproportionate swing to the downside, notably in previously white-hot markets in the Mountain West which saw an influx of remote workers at the onset of the pandemic.
Source: Los Angeles Magazine

The Commission did not find that Heitmann violated a Florida constitutional amendment “prohibiting abuse of office to obtain a disproportionate benefit.
Source: Florida Politics

The report further shows that the pandemic affected most student groups but had a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable students.
Source: Live 5 News WCSC

The risk is that, once departments are in possession of military-grade weapons, these arms have the possibility of being deployed even if they are disproportionate to the situation at hand.
Source: AP Archive

For the EU, the disproportionate focus on lithography was just another example of successive US administrations using China as a pretext to neutralise Europe’s lead.
Source: East Asia Forum

“I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband,” read her statement, which she shared on social media.
Source: Los Angeles Times

High prevalence of back pain in patients with IBS Up to 80% of patients with IBS report back pain (38), and there is a disproportionate amount of unnecessary spine surgery in patients with IBS (39,40).
Source: LWW Journals

At the same time, we’re expected to do a disproportionate amount of emotional labour, and often find ourselves smoothing over thorny situations and regulating the feelings of others.
Source: Dazed

Since the number of featured SKUs is so tiny, Costco represents a disproportionate amount of sales for the SKUs it does carry.
Source: Eurogamer.net

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