Germany is not heavily taxed compared with other European countries (see chart), but it takes a bigger bite out of pay than most, a burden borne disproportionately by those on modest salaries.
One result, Mr. Weisman writes, is that in 1913, "nearly 95percentt of federal revenues came from the purchase of commodities, which were paid disproportionately by families of modest means".
While the casualties suffered by the Australians were light in the context of later operations, they were disproportionately heavy given the modest territorial and strategic gains and were further compounded by the disappearance of the submarine AE1 during a patrol off Rabaul on 14 September, with all 35 men aboard.
Estimated medical expenditures related to low back pain have increased disproportionately relative to the more modest increase in the prevalence of self-reported low back pain in the past decade.
This was negotiated by Margaret Thatcher to mitigate the effects of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy, which had left Britain, with its relatively modest agricultural sector, making disproportionately large contributions to the EU's budget.
But modest economic improvements cannot completely address black Los Angelinos' disproportionately poor health outcomes, bleak employment prospects, and the hemorrhaging of their population due to increasing housing costs and discrimination.
These results imply that a modest increase in SMN protein abundance may cause a disproportionately large increase in SMN expression, a finding that is important for assessing the therapeutic potential of SMA treatments and understanding disease pathogenesis.
He added: 'Although the impact may be modest in London and the South-east, the cut will be felt disproportionately in the Labour heartlands of Scotland, Wales and the North of England.' Miras is worth more to home-owners outside the South-east because it represents a bigger chunk of total monthly repayments.
Group A β-haemolytic streptococcus is responsible for about 10% of sore throats in adults and 15 30% of those in children. 1 6 Treatment of sore throat with antibiotics provides only modest beneficial effect in reducing symptoms and fever.7 8 7 8 However, prescribing rates remain disproportionately high.
So while the overall level of compression would suggest that the change in osmolarity experienced by chondrocytes during exercise might be modest, it is likely that the cells within the surface and intermediate zones will experience a disproportionately high increase in their environmental osmolarity.
