Sentence examples for disproportionate application from inspiring English sources

The tobacco firms say the health minister, Marisol Touraine, "appears to have an extremely wide interpretation of the rules" and accuse her of "arbitrary and disproportionate" application of EU directives.

I began to feel angry and disgusted at the grossly disproportionate application of caring around the world.

This disproportionate application of the death penalty to African Americans is even greater in death penalty states that have a history of lynching, including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

The debate over racial profiling has brought into new focus the long-held belief by many that race has played a role in producing the disproportionate applications of the death penalty to African-Americans and other minorities.

We postulate that this may be due to the increase in shift work or hand-offs for off-hour coverage or to disproportionate improvement in the application of evidence based treatment during regular hours compared with off-hours; however, this could be also a chance finding and is certainly subject to ecological bias.

Germany, which receives a disproportionate share of asylum applications, frets about "burden-sharing".

This year, and like every year before, The Mancunion received a disproportionate amount of male applications for editorial positions, and only 26 per cent of the opinion articles this year have been written by women.

The district court further found that African American registration applications constituted a disproportionate percentage of the incomplete registration queue.

Phillips said: "Not only have we had to battle against low budgets and minimal preparation time, but the club has also had to contend with what has, in its view, been the application of unfair and disproportionate sanctions in the wake of the Mike Scott incident and the consequent five-point deduction at what was a critical stage of the season.

Disproportionate arrests, prosecution, capital sentencing, and application of the death penalty against African Americans and Latinos belies any claim that the administration of the capital punishment is rational or fair.

Behavioral science teaches us that even small barriers to accessing programs, whether it is a complicated form or burdensome application process, can have disproportionate negative impacts on participation rates.