While the United States is used to regarding itself as a global power, and its status as the sole superpower has steadily grown since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the overwhelming disparity is still a big change.
What killed Salman Taseer was the primary and overwhelming disparity in Pakistan -- the one that has steadily fundamentalized that country since the days of the U.S.-imposed religious dictator Zia ul-Haq, through the first Afghan war and now the new Afghan war that is also blatantly being fought in Pakistan.
The law was an attempt to address the overwhelming racial disparity in capital sentences.
But the lawsuit against Kleiner, which was an early investor in Amazon and Google, renewed scrutiny on the overwhelming gender disparity in tech.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
Russia provides an instructive example of the disparity between the overwhelming need for alcohol care and the limited options available to most individuals, particularly those marginalized by poverty and stigma.
In the United States, there is overwhelming evidence for the existence of disparities in health when ethnic minority groups (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget [ 1] but referred to here as ethnicities [ 2]) are compared to their white counterparts[ 3].
Two new reports, issued Monday by the Sentencing Project in Washington and by Human Rights Watch in New York, both say the racial disparities reflect, in large part, an overwhelming focus of law enforcement on drug use in low-income urban areas, with arrests and incarceration the main weapon.
The overwhelming majority of studies aimed at understanding this disparity have focused on socioeconomic and cultural differences, which clearly have significant health consequences across a broad spectrum of diseases, including cancer [ 2, 5, 6].
Evidence of elevated risks pertaining to a wide range of chronic and acute illnesses in such populations is overwhelming and the need to reduce racial/ethnic and SES health disparities is widely recognized as a major public health priority [ 33- 36].
