Sentence examples for disproportionate figure from inspiring English sources

As AOAV regularly records, almost 90% of those killed or injured in airstrikes in populated areas are civilians – a grossly disproportionate figure – and their surviving relatives are all too often radicalised following the explosive blast.

There are 1.6 million homeless kids in America, with 40% of those LGBT, a massively disproportionate figure.

That's an overwhelmingly disproportionate figure when it's compared with the actual rates of violence involving a person with a mental illness.

The Illinois branch of the group, which issued the report, also found that black residents accounted for nearly three quarters of police stop and searches in Chicago — a disproportionate figure given only just over a third of the city's population is African American.

These disproportionate figures, and the financial and emotional burdens of mass incarceration in America, were the topic of a recent discussion at Columbia University between former Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter and Obama administration official Elias Alcantara.

Of course, theories abound with the exact cause of the disproportionate figures – longer hours, differing shift patterns and increased levels of stress can no doubt be argued as integral causes.

Similarly disproportionate figures prompted the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2012 to update guidelines for hiring people with criminal records.

In the same spirit, the company agreed to sever its ties with dealers who sell a disproportionate number of guns that figure in crimes.

The two have been conflated in Italian minds not only by incendiary rhetoric and careless reporting, but also by figures showing a disproportionate number of arrests of foreigners, especially illegal immigrants.

Recent official figures also show they make up a disproportionate number of crown court defendants (24%), and those who are found guilty are more likely to receive custodial sentences than white offenders (61% compared with 56%).

The authors are positive about the success in reaching young women who are aware they are infected with HIV, but the figures are particularly worrying as this group currently accounts for a disproportionate number of new HIV infections.