Sentence examples for disproportionately apply from inspiring English sources

The Guardian found that, indeed, ethnic minorities disproportionately apply for the most competitive subjects, which is likely to reduce their overall chances of success.

This technical infringement is disproportionately applied, ignoring driver behaviour.

The death penalty is most used in the American South, and is disproportionately applied to those who kill whites.

We also learned that the law is disproportionately applied to minorities, the mentally ill and the poor.

He pointed to a frequent criticism of the death penalty, that it is disproportionately applied to minority defendants.

One of the key demands of the New York civil rights movement that coalesced after the choking death of Eric Garner (confronted over a classic broken windows offence – selling loose cigarettes) is an end to the NYPD's policy of "stop and frisk", a tactic that is disproportionately applied to young minority men.

The universities have said this gap is explained in large part by students from ethnic minorities disproportionately applying for the most competitive subjects, such as medicine – but these figures show that even within the competitive subjects white students are more likely to receive offers.

She noted that President Reagan made fighting drugs a priority even before anyone was talking about the crack-cocaine epidemic of the nineteen-eighties, and she showed that penalties were disproportionately applied to African-Americans, even though blacks and whites used and sold drugs at roughly equal rates.

The ancient legal principle Lex talionis (talion)—"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life"—which appears in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, was invoked in some societies to ensure that capital punishment was not disproportionately applied.

SWAT teams, it seems, have a disturbing record of disproportionately applying their specialized skill set within communities of color.

An ACLU/Human Rights Watch report found that in the states where corporal punishment is legal, it is disproportionately applied to black students.