Sentence examples for heavy proportion from inspiring English sources

That Pollyanna-ish read of his prospects skips conveniently over the likelihood that he'll continue to struggle to appeal to African American voters, who make up a heavy proportion of Democratic voters in many of the states to come.

She said, for instance, that it "might be appropriate" to require insurers to spend a heavy proportion of every premium dollar on health care as opposed to overhead and profit.

Whites, too, are under-represented.The relatively heavy proportion of blacks may be seen as a bad thing: a sign that blacks have fewer opportunities and end up with the most dangerous and gruelling jobs.

Second, the votes that have been counted so far contain a heavy proportion of early and absentee ballots, which are likely to favor Mr. Romney more than the votes cast today.

For the red, a 2002 Chinon Picasses from Olga Raffault, overflowing with cherry and herbal flavors, was a great choice at $44. Good low-end choices were easier among the whites than the reds, which had a heavy proportion of wines well above $100.

Between 1997 and 2005, Labour lost 4 million votes, a heavy proportion of which were among its traditional working class electoral base.

Mayne's first New York building, the academic building for Cooper Union, at 41 Cooper Square, has the same top-heavy proportion and silvery outcurving sides, albeit crammed onto a tight urban block.

The project aims to increase the freeway's reliability, efficiency, and safety, as the current two-lane configuration is subject to a large proportion of heavy vehicles and severe peak hour congestion.

A large proportion of heavy smokers may have died from other causes than breast cancer during follow-up, possibly diluting our results.

There is abundant heavy oil resource in the world, of which super heavy oil takes up a large proportion.

Mr. Gates said he wanted to flatten a bureaucracy that had experienced significant "brass creep," swelling to "cumbersome and top-heavy proportions".