The only Democrat to oppose it was Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who said he could not vote for the current bill "because it does nothing to bring our open-ended and disproportionate military commitment in Afghanistan to an end and/or to ensure that our troops are safely and expeditiously redeployed from Iraq".
"The fear was what that resource commitment … was disproportionate to other competing demands at the time," Clarke added.
It would involve in each case a disproportionate amount of time, money and commitment for what would be, for any single act, a low-level sentence.
The case, and other prosecutions in the works, represent a "commitment to combat the disproportionate amount of securities fraud scams perpetrated through broker-dealers on Long Island," said Joel M. Cohen, deputy chief of the business and securities fraud bureau in Mr. Carter's office.
The mass media company is hoping that its fall programming lineup could win a disproportionate share of advertising from its "upfront" commitments it is negotiating now, the analyst said.
The colony's initial commitment to religious toleration attracted a disproportionate number (though never a majority) of Nonconformists, especially Methodists.
Baghdadi, like Putin and Xi, understands that shock and awe is only a meaningful doctrine if it is backed up by the commitment to use military force--real force, even disproportionate force, the force that makes one a superpower--on the ground.
Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.
Either way, given their past commitments, the size of their economies, their countries' disproportionate share of greenhouse gas emissions, and their responsibilities as donor countries, the G8 leaders have a special obligation to lead.
So Lloyd George, plausibly shaken — and, along with Balfour, curiously attached to the idea that Jewry in both Russia and the United States wielded disproportionate influence — supposed that a promise to support Jewish nationalism would reinforce American commitment and Russian resolve.
People of color are imprisoned at disproportionate rates for drug offenses, and legalization has become a test of candidates' commitment to equal treatment in criminal justice and to fighting economic inequality.
