Sentence examples for disproportionate play from inspiring English sources

When the record industry's payola scandal (involving payment in return for airplay) broke in 1959, Clark told a congressional committee that he was unaware that performers in whom he had a financial interest had received disproportionate play on his programs.

What's more, discredited reports like Rolling Stone's disastrous University of Virginia cover story get wildly disproportionate play in the news and across social media.

Genuinely responding to the crisis of the poorer parts of the world requires dialogue about how international financial power is organized, and the highly disproportionate role played by the United States in important decisions.

Throughout the prelude to the referendum various excitable separatists such as Kenny McFeral and Kirsty Nae-Mates got worked up about empire and colonialism, overlooking both the disproportionate part played by Scotland in the long vanished British Empire, the ethnic composition of numerous UK governments and New Labour's founding junta.

Whether providing products in energy, water & sanitation, healthcare or education, women often have a disproportionate role to play in making decisions about decisions that will impact the household and other family members.

The Lions have developed into one of the biggest brands in world rugby with a commercial strength disproportionate to its playing success.

Wall Street's astonishing level of influence comes courtesy of the disproportionate roll money plays in our political system.

While most historians dispute the claims of Żydokomuna, some continue to point out the allegedly disproportionate role Jews played in the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) prior to World War II.

We also describe how the authorities have responded to declining immunization coverage and its impact on vaccine acceptability in the context of certain highly connected actors playing disproportionate influence over household vaccination decisions.

Cities often play a disproportionate role in the national economy.

Our results suggest that much of the power associated with committee positions in Congress is concentrated among a small set of chairs that play a disproportionate role in policymaking.