Sentence examples for it would be disproportionate from inspiring English sources

Given the small press run, a spokesman told BBC News, it would be "disproportionate to take a heavy-handed approach".

The previous government ruled out banning BNP members from teaching after an independent inquiry into racism in schools decided it would be disproportionate.

But further complaints about expense claims for utility bills were dismissed by Ipsa after compliance officer Peter Davis ruled it would be "disproportionate" to penalise the MP further after making "no finding" about how much time she spent at her London accommodation.

"The number of nesting robins, starlings and pied wagtails prompting legitimate health and safety concerns in any year is very, very small, and we shall be responding to Natural England that it would be disproportionate to change the current licensing system, which should easily cope with genuine problems," said Robin Wynde of the RSPB.

"Therefore, Newport City Council feels it would be disproportionate for Welsh to appear first on signage as it would not meet the needs of the vast majority of its residents," the spokesperson added.

An attempt to completely analyse non-coding regions of HLA alleles would be challenging not only due to missing intronic sequences of the broad majority of the annotated alleles, but because it would be disproportionate to the intended objective.

"We will continue to point out to the commission the many areas where we believe its analysis is flawed and its remedies would be disproportionate and counterproductive," the chief executive, Colin S. Matthews, said.

Though the Dublin-based publisher said the matter warranted "immediate investigation", which is under way, it believed termination of the title would be "disproportionate to a poor editorial decision".

The court in Luxembourg said such a requirement would be disproportionate, adding that it would violate "the freedom to conduct business, the right to protection of personal data and the freedom to receive or impart information".

It said that on balance it took the view that providing images of receipts or invoices would be "disproportionate in terms of costs, insufficiently beneficial in terms of transparency and represented a higher risk in terms of data protection".

The company said it would review the requests, "mindful that the proposal would give the shareholder absolute control of the entire board, which would be disproportionate to its relative ownership of the company's shares".