International public opinion was shocked by the disproportion in casualties.
That disproportion in high-profile positions reinforces popular suspicions that some old-boy network or entrenched sexism resists change.
But the prime minister cautioned against direct comparisons, noting the large disproportion in the two countries' troop commitments.
But still it is hard to ignore the gross disproportion in the attention paid to the two parallel streams of suffering.
But in this study, 68% of women diagnosed with absolute cephalopelvic disproportion in a previous pregnancy went on to have a vaginal birth in future.
The disproportion in these figures does, of course, reflect inflation, but to a much greater extent it reflects the price of lessons learned.
By a strange disproportion in the handling of evidence, this non-event is given more significance than the two years actually spent in Italy in 1786.
Last year, Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer found a similar disproportion in the number of blacks and Hispanics who were stopped, although he did not accuse the department of racial profiling.
The House can no longer be so spectacularly tilted and biased to one form of entry which causes enormous disproportion in gender and background and to a ridiculous extent in political allegiance.
And more broadly, great concern still remains about the grotesque disproportion in the rates of arrest and incarceration of young black men in the UK – an unrelenting blight on claims to the fairness of our criminal justice system.
But even if that were not so, Russia could still not risk angering China on a vital matter, not with a long common border and a huge and growing disproportion in population and non-nuclear military might.
