Sentence examples for disproportionately burden from inspiring English sources

The tobacco industry and others counter that high taxes disproportionately burden the poor.

Some in the beverage industry said the proposed changes disproportionately burden distributors, especially since bottles and cans account for only 3percentt of the waste stream.

To entrench their tenuous majority, North Carolina Republicans raised barriers that they knew would disproportionately burden black voters, and they did so because of, not despite, those racial effects.

"I believe that this two-year deferral is a balanced and responsible way for the commission to ensure that its rules do not disproportionately burden small issuers," Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the S.E.C., said in a statement.

Moreover, enforcement would disproportionately burden women.

We conclude that the widespread implementation of GP copayments would disproportionately burden lower-income families, who experience higher rates of chronic illness, higher demand for GP services, and lower capacity to absorb price increases.

Democrats alleged the changes disproportionately burdened black voters.

Some issues have existed for decades: land inheritance practices, customary duty of care disproportionately burdening women and exploitative tenancy agreements.

It ensures that the poorest students will be disproportionately burdened, and it promotes social stagnation as opposed to social mobility.

Senator Chuck Grassley asked Trotter whether "banning guns which feature designs to improve accuracy disproportionately burdens women" — women apparently being not only small but also wild shooters.

And Robert H. Frank's suggestion that we instead tax sugary soft drinks involves presumptuous top-down social engineering in a regressive form that disproportionately burdens the poor.