Sentence examples for disproportions from inspiring English sources

Disproportions then begin to develop among the various branches of production as well as between production and consumption in general.

The highway system originally showed disproportions similar to those of the railways; that is, the densest network was on land belonging to Germany and the least dense on land belonging to Russia.

It offers one of the most remarkable disproportions between the precise personalism of its action and the overwhelming scope of its achievement.

PLAYTIME For this 1967 film, Jacques Tati — the unsurpassed satirist of technology's inhuman allure — built a grandiose, gleaming glass-and-steel skyscraper city on the outskirts of Paris and conceived his comic crises in the details of its disproportions.

Superintendent Leroy Logan, chair of the Met BPA charitable trust, said before the force could consider itself free of institutional racism, it must tackle the continuing disproportions in the treatment of minority Londoners.

Responding on BBC Newsnight last week to criticisms of the force's record, the Met assistant commissioner Simon Byrne said the force was working successfully to address those disproportions but admitted there was a long way to go.

But, while the physical presentation was flawless, I felt a strange disproportion between the ceremonial grandeur of the occasion and the contentious politics of Thatcher herself.

The House has already approved such an amendment by 286-130; butoto be ratified it needs to pass the Senate by a two-thirds majority, and then to win the support of 38 state legislatures.The most striking thing about the debate was the disproportion between the problem and the proposed remedy.

The figures bear out his horror: nearly one prisoner in four in America is locked up for a non-violent drug offence, and drug crimes now often receive harsher punishments than violent assaults, rapes or murders.Such disproportion rightly infuriates Mr Husak.

Blacks and Latinos are jailed for drug offences in striking disproportion to their numbers: according to Human Rights Watch, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.

The diaspora, some 2m-3m mostly disenchanted Zimbabweans, is barred from voting.Another obstacle is the recent gerrymandering of constituencies, which gives rural areas, where Mr Mugabe is strongest, a large disproportion of seats in the 210-member parliament.