Sentence examples for disproportionate response from inspiring English sources

"Personally, I think this is a disproportionate response," says Walden.

In both cases there are allegations of a disproportionate response.

The disproportionate response ensured that abortion was a key issue in the following year's election.

The court has consistently held that imprisonment is a disproportionate response to defamation.

The shelling drew angry criticism from Iraqi leaders, who condemned it as a disproportionate response.

Greenpeace said the Spanish detention of the ship was "an unnecessary and disproportionate response".

"Look at all the people you have killed in your disproportionate response".

Israel's disproportionate response to the soldiers' capture will have an impact on Lebanese domestic policy.

In other words, any strike against will lead to a disproportionate response, thereby creating a deterrent.

Eden was scandalised and, riding a wave of popular indignation, prepared a grotesquely disproportionate response: full scale invasion.

• To the Editor: It is clear that Israeli airstrikes are a vastly disproportionate response to Hamas's rockets launched into Israel.