Sentence examples for disproportionate by from inspiring English sources

"There are perceptions in this country that the US criminal justice system can be harsh, its penal policy can be harsh, and its sentencing policy can appear disproportionate by European and British standards.

In Britain, the place where the cursor currently rests a blanket ban on voting for anyone serving a custodial sentence has been deemed disproportionate by the European court in Strasbourg.

Politicians' response to immigration has been described as "wholly disproportionate" by the Bishop of Dudley, the Right Reverend David Walker, speaking to the Observer.

The bill will replace the contentious DRIPA (which has a sunset clause of 2016): aka the data capture legislation pushed through the House of Commons with unseemly haste back in 2014, as the then-coalition government claimed emergency legislation was necessary to plug the gap left after European data retention powers were struck down as disproportionate by Europe's top court.

The attack and kidnapping of a solder - and the killing of two others - is certainly a justification for defensive action; again, however, Israel's jus in bello was wildly disproportionate by any plausible measure.

Finally, PJ condition required the observers to explicitly indicate whether they thought that the image was proportional by pressing 'yes' or if they thought that the image was disproportionate by pressing 'no'no

The existing ad hoc training system very likely contributes to an emphasis on certain areas and a deficit in others, as demonstrated by the disproportionate focus by respondents on issues related to external validity (i.e., generalizability of study results), despite being questioned on issues relevant to internal validity (i.e., avoiding bias through methodologically rigorous design).

Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer of Germany has warned against a "disproportionate response" by the United States, echoing remarks by the French defense minister, Alain Richard.

Such disproportionate usage by elderly is also supported by western studies that had shown increasing proportion of aging population.

Systematic sampling from a national household database, followed by disproportionate stratified sampling by ethnic groups, was used to select the sample for the survey.

We identified markers with disproportionate effects by inspection of effect sizes (Table S1, [see Additional file 1]) and by dropping markers from the analysis and observing the behavior of Long's test on the reduced data set.