Sentence examples for disproportionate step from inspiring English sources

The BBC's local video plans "would have been a disproportionate step into a market where the private sector was already active," said Angela Mills Wade, executive director of the European Publishers Council.

Presented here are results of this search, along with 21 potential intron retaining or exon extending STEPs where allele population frequency and EST data has shown a disproportionate retention of one STEP allele, as well as a spliced form.

We found a disproportionate number of candidate STEPs for the 12 nucleotide length of PPT searched using the PWM of Zhang et al. [16] (where PPT is range −4 to −15), with 3.03 and 5.61 times more candidates in the PPT than in the 5'ss (half the length of the PPT) and 3'ss (quarter the length of the PPT) regions.

The response sample was in a first step corrected for disproportionate stratification (by assigning weights inverse to the strata sampling fractions) and in a second step adjusted to be representative of all 2007 deaths for age, sex, place and cause of death (case weights calculated to reflect the distribution and combination of these characteristics in all 2007 deaths).

An EPA spokesman said the agency is already taking steps to mitigate the disproportionate impacts of freight facilities on poor and minority communities.

The implementation of risk-based tools at key decision points is the next step for San Francisco to reduce disproportionate minority contact and continue to reduce our jail population safely.

Executive Order 12898 issued by President Clinton in 1994, which remains in force, directs all federal agencies to take steps to identify and rectify disproportionate health and environmental impacts resulting from their activities, policies, and programs on minorities and low-income populations.

However, this too would side step the broader issue by putting a disproportionate amount of the punishment on current or incoming student-athletes.

In the first step, the data were corrected for the disproportionate stratification procedure by assigning to the cases a weight that was the inverse of the sampling fraction of the stratum they had been assigned to.

Livestock represents a disproportionate part of food's carbon footprint.

MPs and protesters are stepping up their campaign against "extreme and disproportionate" sentences handed down to young Muslims involved in demonstrations against the Israeli invasion of Gaza last year.