First, they say, women have to fight disproportionately hard to win investment backing, facing down more challenging questioning of their pitches and much more rigorous analysis of their businesses.
Ward's fought a disproportionately high number of his fights in Oakland, rare for a fighter of his stature in a sport where the biggest fights happen in Las Vegas.
This is our burden when we find ourselves in a war fought so disproportionately on one side.
With so many of Iran's elite families in exile after the 1979 revolution, the soldiers who fought the war came disproportionately from the country's lower social strata.
But Mike Madrid, a GOP consultant, said Latino politicians have made the decades-old fights a "disproportionately large part of the agenda".
In the 1970s and '80s they said they fought the laws against hand-dredging that disproportionately limited the work of the black oystermen.
The condition disproportionately affects soldiers who have fought in war zones.
Just within the last couple of years, activists fought against the stop-and-frisk policy that disproportionately targeted young black and brown men in New York City.
Today, critics charge that the United States military disproportionately focuses its recruiting efforts on young blacks and Latinos and that minorities "have been disproportionately represented among service members who have fought and died in Iraq".
He is a member of Voces de la Frontera, a Milwaukee-based immigrants' rights group that has led unionization drives and fought Wisconsin's tough new voter ID law, perceived as disproportionately affecting people of color.
When we fought to change the seniority-based layoff system that was disproportionately hurting our neediest students, the teachers union fought back.
