But police officials acknowledged that on a square-foot basis, a disproportionate amount of crime occurs within them.
For all his fine qualities – many of which were on display in yesterday's gracious, candid response to the Wonga embarrassment – Archbishop Welby is still the unelected leader of a minority institution which enjoys disproportionate influence on the basis of history alone.
This may be particularly true for male mating success (attractiveness) because there is some evidence that its genetic basis may involve a disproportionate contribution of the female sex chromosome (i.e. X or Z chromosome).
Indeed, counting has become increasingly problematic to the point that a competition seems to be taking place in which the apparent superiority of a newborn screening program or private laboratory is staked on the sole basis of quantity, with disproportionate consideration given to quality.
DCI Paul Settle, the investigating officer, told the home affairs select committee on 21 October: "My reason for that [discontinuing the case] was that I concluded that any action against Lord Brittan would be grossly disproportionate and would not have a legal basis as, in order to interview him, we would have to have had reasonable grounds to suspect that an [offence] had been committed.
The data indicate that transpiration within regional buffers uses a disproportionate amount of water on a per area basis compared to upland land covers, an important consideration when examining overall water consumption in regional watersheds.
Uber France boss Thibaud Simphal called the raid a "disproportionate action carried out on a very fragile legal basis" in comments to L'Orbs magazine.
To deny Mr Lake the CIA job on the basis of this half-mistake by underlings seems disproportionate.If he had hung tough, Mr Lake might have faced down these objections.
John R. Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations, wrote on the Web site Decide America that "Defense has already taken hugely disproportionate cuts under President Obama, and there is simply no basis for expanding those cuts further".
He then went further, calling the damages "wholly disproportionate" and asking Congress to change the law, on the basis that Ms Thomas-Rasset was an individual who had not sought to profit from piracy.But at a second trial, which concluded in June 2009, Ms Thomas-Rasset was found guilty again.
