Sentence examples for disproportionate idea from inspiring English sources

Mr Barker said: "I think that appetite for fairness or a counter-opinion gives a disproportionate idea to the public that the sceptic view is perhaps more legitimate, or more widely held is perhaps a better way of putting it, than it actually is".

I have a disproportionate resistance to the idea of "identifying" with anyone at all, ­fictive or real.

Weisburd and his colleague, David Wilson, have studied area-based policing strategies and said that while this kind of exclusionary zone doesn't work, so-called "hot-spot policing" -- which is based on the idea that a disproportionate amount of crime is clustered in small areas -- can be more effective.

There are plenty of good reasons to think one family's dominance over the Democratic Party stifles renewal, new ideas, and entrenches disproportionate power.

Here is the Fidel Castro I think I know: a man of austere customs and insatiable illusions, with a formal old-world education, with prudent words and fine manners and unable to conceive of an idea that is not disproportionate".

"It doesn't take many people with extreme ideas to have a disproportionate effect," said Mark Pitcavage, national fact-finding director for the Anti-Defamation League, which tracks extremist groups.

A disproportionate number of these upstarts produced industry-changing ideas that established companies failed to appreciate until it was too late.

While there is substantial evidence to support the idea that chronic stress is associated with disproportionate gains in visceral adiposity, the mechanisms whereby this selective deposition pattern occurs remain unclear.

The idea is to identify "tall poppies" (units with disproportionate pollution).

Behind all this is the idea that world-class universities can make a disproportionate contribution to economic growth.This is a fascinating story.

This commentary provides a brief overview of theory and research that supports the idea that sexism may be related to the disproportionate negative cardiovascular health outcomes in women.