The phrase "disproportionate importance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to something that is given more significance or attention than it deserves. Example: The media's coverage of the celebrity's divorce was given disproportionate importance, overshadowing more important news stories.
Some things are expunged and others take on disproportionate importance.
Jowitt gives disproportionate importance to the accepted wisdom and popularity ratings without adequately penetrating the material.
As is often the case with Lebanon, internal crises take on disproportionate importance, given the role that foreign powers habitually play in the country's domestic affairs.
But I am nonetheless bothered by the disproportionate importance that the Academy Awards have taken on, and by the distorting influence they exercise over the way we make, market and see movies in this country.
While most of the province's people live a strikingly primitive existence, often hunting with bows and arrows or spears, West Papua carries disproportionate importance to Indonesia's economy because of its giant copper and gold mines.
According to the documents, Sir Kevin Tebbit, the most senior official at the Defense Ministry, argued against calling Dr. Kelly before the parliamentary inquiry because an appearance would attach "disproportionate importance" to whatever he said.
The perceived benefit of below-market rent lends the rent-controlled apartment a disproportionate psychological importance.
Although home to fewer than 3 million of Spain's 46 million people, the Basque region has a disproportionate economic importance as a center of industry, mining and culture.
If, as Churchill said, Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by a mystery" then, thanks to its labyrinthine political and ethnonational intricacies, its disproportionate geostrategic importance, Cyprus is all that boxed in a puzzle buried in a conundrum.
If, as Churchill said, Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, surrounded by a mystery" then, thanks to its labyrinthine political and ethno-national intricacies, its disproportionate geostrategic importance, Cyprus is all that boxed in a puzzle, buried in a conundrum.
Several studies have hinted at a disproportionate functional importance of U34 modifications in these three isoacceptors.
