Sentence examples for disproportionate consequences from inspiring English sources

As far as the scope of this article is concerned, this collapse serves as a great example of the disproportionate consequences a lack of structural robustness can have.

The theory of structural vulnerability developed at the University of Bristol is a theory of form that seeks to identify failure scenarios where small damage can lead to disproportionate consequences.

The British publishers cannily compare the novel to The Slap, in which a casual act also has massively disproportionate consequences (another alternative title for this book might have been The Click).

(Think of the well-known "butterfly effect," when something small that happens early in a chain of events causes disproportionate consequences by the end). The second is that it's possible to extrapolate averages or medians to entire populations.

Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Dr Mary Bousted warned spoilt children had "disproportionate" consequences for behaviour in schools.

Yet this twelve-year experiment vastly expanded the power of the federal government and created lasting enforcement practices that had disproportionate consequences for African Americans throughout the twentieth century.

Though many Australians, and not just of the left, found it hard to decide whether it was the warmonger or the tyrant whose presence they found more objectionable, the visits proved one point: Australia has become a country of disproportionate consequence in world affairs.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a painful disorder that usually develops as a disproportionate consequence of trauma.

The observations of Ginther et al. (2) suggest the presence of an "inverse Matthew effect," that is, residual cultural biases may have disproportionate adverse consequences on minority subgroups of our scientific community.

A consequence of the small sample of facilities was the disproportionate effect of large changes in numbers of visits and workload in one Lusaka facility, which experienced a 50% fall in OPD visits and workload across the three years.

Indirect risk can be interpreted as risk from consequences disproportionate to the cause of the damage, and so the robustness of a system is indicated by the contribution of these indirect risks to total risk.