Second, the males are over represented in this sample largely because of disproportionate enrollment of both sexes into the medical school.
(If people can jaywalk with impunity, what else might they try to get away with?) The method has been denounced in progressive quarters for its disproportionate and largely negative effect on low-income communities of color.
In 1996, only about one in four of all New York City home purchase loans were issued to black and Hispanic borrowers; by 2006, those loans accounted for nearly 40percentt, largely due to a disproportionate reliance on risky borrowing.
Carriage of multidrug-resistant E. coli was significantly more common in poultry workers and was largely attributable to the disproportionate prevalence of GEN resistance (Table 4).
In Australia, the increase in the number of indigenous people starting renal replacement therapy (RRT) over the past 25 years exceeded that of the nonindigenous population by 3.5-fold, largely due to a disproportionate (>10-fold) difference in ESRD due to type II diabetic nephropathy, a disease largely attributable to lifestyle issues such as poor nutrition and lack of exercise.
That growth has largely been driven by the disproportionate spread of the disease among heterosexual black women, particularly in the South.
And the Court, by eliminating almost all the curbs on outside money in elections, has given wealthy donors disproportionate political power, largely in the form of Super PACs and nonprofit advocacy groups.
These conversations came to mind when the ICC cricket committee announced that it was going to recommend legislation to rein in the influence of the modern bat, which it is largely recognised, is having a disproportionate influence on the way cricket is being played.
Since then individual states have tinkered with these rules, but Southern states have been slower to adopt more liberal liquor laws, largely owing to the region's disproportionate number of evangelical voters.
Many civil rights advocates have complained that the searches are not truly voluntary and are largely responsible for the stops of disproportionate numbers of minority drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike.
