Sentence examples for applied disproportionately from inspiring English sources
Across the U.S. the death penalty is applied disproportionately to blacks who kill whites.
While often effective, it was also applied disproportionately against immigrants, racial minorities and people in lower socioeconomic groups.
The disturbance charge leveled at the girl Fields threw from her desk, for example, has a history of being applied disproportionately to South Carolina's black students.
Not so much because there might be (and often is) pain and suffering involved but because capital punishment is flawed, expensive, subject to manipulation, applied disproportionately to minorities, not an effective deterrent and, at the end of the day, irreversible.
For example, women might apply disproportionately to be cashiers and men disproportionately to work in receiving.
"Black students apply disproportionately for the most oversubscribed subjects," it said, further reducing their chances of success.
Oxford's spokesman told my colleague that "black students apply disproportionately for the most oversubscribed subjects" – namely economics and management, medicine and maths.
A spokeswoman for Oxford said: "Black students apply disproportionately for the most oversubscribed subjects, contributing to a lower than average success rate for the group as a whole: 44% of all black applicants apply for Oxford's three most oversubscribed subjects, compared with just 17% of all white applicants.
Immigrant advocates and other critics of the Bush administration's policy on Haitians contend that the tighter detention regulations and expedited deportation process for refugees still apply disproportionately to Haitians, because most people who flee by sea come from Haiti or Cuba.
Black students apply disproportionately for the most oversubscribed subjects.
Yet there is evidence that the federal death penalty is applied unevenly, disproportionately affecting minorities and the marginalised.
