Sentence examples for disproportionate exposure from inspiring English sources

"It was subject to the vagaries of the economy, but it was a disproportionate exposure," said Daniels.

Alternative route teachers-in-training are novice teachers hiding behind a different label, so minority students are likely to have a disproportionate exposure to them as well.

Black children and adults have higher than average obesity prevalence and disproportionate exposure to food marketing environments in which high calorie foods are readily available and heavily promoted.

Growing awareness of this disproportionate exposure to systemic risk may reduce investors' appetite for securitised products.The uncertainties do not end there.

The preeminent place of young founders in the popular imagination may therefore reflect disproportionate exposure to a handful of consumer-facing IT industries, such as social media, rather than equally consequential pursuits in heavy industry or business-to-business sectors.

Meanwhile, America's ravenous appetite for imports from Asia fuelled business at the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland and their supporting infrastructure of railroads, transport and warehouses.California's disproportionate exposure to the boom explains why its bust has been especially painful.

This important volume notes how environmental justice activism and scholarship put the issues of disproportionate exposures by race and income squarely on the federal agenda and how that agenda was often fumbled in the face of legal issues, bureaucratic obstacles, political resistance, and even an inability to crisply define an environmental justice community.

The EJ movement still has much that needs to be done, but it has accomplished a great deal both in terms of raising awareness of disproportionate exposures of people of color and low-income people to environmental hazards, and by pressing policy makers in both the public sector and the private sector to take remedial action.

I was a bit surprised that states and congressional districts that ranked highest in terms of disproportionate exposures of people of color, for example, did not necessarily rank highest in terms of the scale of disparities between the most exposed and the least exposed communities. .

The evidence suggests a pattern of disproportionate exposures to environmental risks among communities of color and the poor, with racial differences often persisting across economic strata.

Background: Research on drinking water in the United States has rarely examined disproportionate exposures to contaminants faced by low-income and minority communities.