disproportion
disproportion
definition
noun
there is a disproportion between the scale of expenditure and any benefit that could possibly result
an instance of being out of proportion with something else.
example
In the late 19th and early 20th C. the US Army had a huge 'disproportion' of off-the-boat Irish Catholics.
The 'disproportion' between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable.
An awareness that a tragic 'disproportion' of black Americans are poor has been a hallmark of civic awareness among educated Americans for 40 years now.
There's been a significant 'disproportion' for 30 years now between the level of risk the company takes on and the premiums they charge.
But, it's not the wedding I resent as much as the 'disproportion' of it all.
When people criticise the Government's apparent obsession with spin and presentation, they are really criticising the 'disproportion' between the energy of the apparatus and the modesty of the outcome.
That was when I began to notice the obscene 'disproportion' of taxpayers' money spent on London.
The 'disproportion' of parks on Vancouver's Westside compared to the city's Eastside is of absurd dimensions.
In the foreseeable future, the 'disproportion' between the United States and any other state will widen.
Since our inclination is usually to evade what's difficult, we may find an increasing 'disproportion' between our power and our depth.
there is a 'disproportion' between the scale of expenditure and any benefit that could possibly result
there is a 'disproportion' between the scale of expenditure and any benefit that could possibly result
The 'disproportion' between the sculpture and the human throng reminded me of a device employed by Piranesi in his engravings of ancient Rome.
The monumentality of the study is accentuated by the deliberate 'disproportion' in scale: the soaring high windows contrast with the heavy low furnishings.
In China today, the more literate provinces tend in fact to have somewhat higher, not lower, sex ratios at birth; and in India it is urban, not rural, areas in which the 'disproportion' between boys and girls is greatest.
But in the case of China and Taiwan, the 'disproportion' in scale of population and power between the mainland and the island is enormous.
All sustained strategic bombing campaigns, moreover, depend on a 'disproportion' between the economic resources of the attacking and defending sides.
That 'disproportion' brings unhappiness we know - not always, of course, practicing proportionality ourselves.
And obviously we are intended to agree, for otherwise the 'disproportion' between his action and Angelo's proposed punishment would not strike us so forcibly, and the tension would go out of the play.
women undergoing caesarean section because of feto-pelvic 'disproportion'
In a number of Adès's works there is a curious 'disproportion' between the scale of the music's emotional impact and the amount of time it takes to achieve that impact.
In itself that is a limitation, it might be regarded as a 'disproportion' ; no matter, there is no help - he must work within the limits of his love.
Some things seem 'disproportionally' technologically advanced.
We do think that the 'disproportionality' is too high and we need to make sure that our police forces are using these powers properly.
We do not see racial and class disproportionality in prisons as something that can be corrected within the prison system, as if 'disproportionality' is just a bump in an otherwise functional road.
This meant that it was unrealistic to harmonise the economic systems of Serbia and Montenegro because of major 'disproportions' in the structure of the two economies, he said.
There has been no government questioning of the enormously 'disproportional' rate of casualties.
This group would also on average pay less local taxation - which 'disproportionally' hits home-owning people on pensions.
The Commission also warns that an increase in spending limits could lead to a 'disproportional' advantage at the polling booths for larger and better-resourced parties.
They make a lot of noise, 'disproportionally' so and it is effective.
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