Sentence examples for disproportionate portion from inspiring English sources

That will take a disproportionate portion of the population into commerce — schools of business.

Norgay was a campaigner for the rights of his people, who are now more outspoken after decades of being allocated a disproportionate share of the risks involved in climbing Everest's treacherous slopes – and a disproportionate portion of the reward.

Now, it may overstate losses because a disproportionate portion of sales in some markets are foreclosures, which are less likely to have been well maintained and in some cases may have been abandoned and vandalized before a new sale takes place.

They argued that the jury division the jurors will be pulled from was "more urban" than the "more rural" division they wanted included, and that it would lead to the "exclusion of a disproportionate portion of residents holding certain conservative political beliefs".

Breast and cervical cancer were the most prominent of these, meaning that women seemed to form a disproportionate portion of the population that could be helped by education.

This can be ascribed to factors including rising income inequality, economist Jeffrey Sachs, another report co-author, wrote in the report, and the "persistent absolute and relative poverty" of a significant portion of the U.S. population, which shoulders a disproportionate share of these public health crises.

Debate about the ability of a universal job creation strategy to address persistent and disproportionate African American unemployment occupied a significant portion of Thursday's gathering.

There is disproportionate representation towards academic centers in the eastern portion of the United States.

For some years I have been ashamed of belonging to a collective which uses its ballot box clout to demand a massively disproportionate slice of the national cake, especially the medical portion.

Figure S4B confirms that the distal portions of all 19 autosomes bear a disproportionate number of crossovers in male vs. female meioses.

Though new homes represent only a small portion of the housing market, they have a disproportionate impact on the economy.