Sentence examples for disproportionate extent from inspiring English sources

"They are — to a disproportionate extent — the father, the grandfathers, the uncles of the black professional class today," Mr. Tye said.

In both Egypt and Pakistan, most people who fell foul of these laws were Muslim, but the legislation was  used to a disproportionate extent against minority Christians.

But those states most vulnerable to flooding from hurricanes were also those where the home building industry exercised its greatest influence, and where state and local governments relied to a disproportionate extent on property taxes for revenue.

The Austrian economy came to be dominated to a disproportionate extent by a trend toward the service sector because of the importance of tourism, which transformed the economic and social character of the rural Alpine areas.

Pairing prisoner experiences with cutting-edge research into prison risk, Venters reveals the disproportionate extent to which the health risks of jail are meted out to those with behavioral health problems and people of color.

No building can be expected to be resistant to the excessive loads that could arise because of an extreme cause, but it should not be damaged to an extent disproportionate to the original cause.

It is a chain reaction failure of building members to an extent disproportionate to the original localized damage (DoD 2013).

The term Robustness is defined as the "ability of a structure to withstand events like fire, explosions, impact or the consequences of human error, without being damaged to an extent disproportionate to the original cause" (CEN 2002).

EPP should be excluded in all photosensitive children, especially when discomfort is disproportionate to the extent of the cutaneous lesions.

Indeed, pain from bone metastases is the most frequent form of pain reported by patients with cancer and is often disproportionate to the extent of bone involvement [ 35].

Therefore, EPP should always be considered in photosensitive children, especially when the subjective discomfort is disproportionate to the extent of visible skin manifestations because we obviously do not always see what these patients feel.