Sentence examples for given disproportionate weight from inspiring English sources
(So was Thomas Hardiman, the Pittsburgh judge whom Trump's team, perhaps in an attempt to drum up some mystery, had portrayed as a scrappy contender for the seat — and who is a colleague of Trump's sister, which is the sort of detail given disproportionate weight in this White House).
The electoral system gives disproportionate weight to small nationalist parties.
It dictates an arcane process involving the Electoral College and gives disproportionate weight to low-population states.
Direct popular vote would give disproportionate weight to the concerns of the most populous regions.
Well, maybe it's not that strange: what it most resembles is the Electoral College, which also gives disproportionate weight (though not that disproportionate) to states with small populations.
The most common complaint is that the system gives disproportionate weight to smaller states and is therefore inconsistent with the notion of one person one vote.
Blame the front-loading of the primary season with rural states, or electoral and legislative systems that give disproportionate weight to sparsely populated states.
Each putt counts exactly the same, yet players treat them differently.Another common form of behaviour is managing complexity with simple rules by, for instance, giving disproportionate weight to round numbers.
A new electoral law, passed in June 2012, was immediately denounced by the opposition for retaining the aspects of the old voting system that gave disproportionate weight to districts where support for the government was highest.
How America's electoral college worksTHE electoral college is a relic of the 18th century that gives disproportionate weight to voters in smaller states and focuses attention on a dozen "swing" ones.
Mr. Abram was a young lawyer in Atlanta specializing in railroad cases in 1949 when he began a 14-year struggle to overturn a Georgia electoral rule that gave disproportionate weight in primary elections to ballots cast in predominantly white rural areas at the expense of those cast by urban blacks.
