Sentence examples for disproportionate measures from inspiring English sources

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However, due to the climate of fear that has been created, it appears that disproportionate measures have been incorporated to reduce the threat from foreign fighters".

Special procedures, disproportionate measures, that are useless and vain should not be initiated for the therapeutic objective designed (withdraw them if they have been established).

The limitation of the therapeutic effort (LTE) consists in not applying extraordinary or disproportionate measures for therapeutic purposes that are proposed for a patient with poor life prognosis and/or poor quality of life.

I think that it is compromises like the Shalit deal and the inability to free hostages in pinpoint commando operations that inflate the desire to respond to crises using disproportionate measures.

However, it goes on to subtly admit that part of this is to lobby on its own behalf, stating one of its three purposes of engaging with those in government as "to encourage policy-makers to act in the public interest without imposing disproportionate measures that will have a detrimental effect on the firm's ability to facilitate  growth".

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg praised the identification of IP address users as "sensible" but said that the home secretary "wants to go a lot further" by reviving what he called the "disproportionate" measures of "the snoopers' charter".

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"Somehow these small satisfactions seem to give them a disproportionate measure of self-esteem".

When some part of this digital media ecosystem gains a disproportionate measure of influence, however, the system tends to flounder until balance is restored.

A Facebook spokesman on Wednesday that the company was pleased that Dzodan had been released, describing his detention as "an extreme, disproportionate measure".

"The Inter-American convincedn is convinced that in many if not the majority of cases, detention is a disproportionate measure and the alternatives to detention programs would be a more balanced means of serving the State's legitimate interest in ensuring compliance with immigration laws," the report said.

Reporters Without Borders issued a statement calling the blocking of the entire Web site a disproportionate measure and urged the government to reverse the decision.

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