Sarah Harrison

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

British Journalist

Wagner Moura

Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

Brazilian Actor

Nazanin Boniadi

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

British Actress

Robert Casey

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

American Politician

Mike Quigley

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Gretchen Rubin

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

American Author

William Allingham

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

Irish Poet

Winnie Byanyima

The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.

Ugandan Politician

Iqbal Quadir

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

Bangladeshi Businessman

Sucheta Dalal

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

Use 'disproportionate' to emphasize that one thing is much bigger or smaller than it should be compared to another.

Relative Size

'Disproportionate' often implies something is unfair or not right, so use it to criticize.

Negative Connotation

Imagine one side of a scale heavily weighed down to help remember the meaning of 'disproportionate'.

Visual Imagery

When comparing segments, like budget areas, 'disproportionate' can point out imbalance.

Sector Comparison

In finance, use 'disproportionate' to suggest poor planning or biased investment.

Business Critique

In environmental discussions, 'disproportionate' can highlight the unfair burden or impact.

Global Context

'Disproportionate' illustrates that the scale of an effect doesn't match the cause's size.

Scale of Effect

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What happens when you...

 and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector. Now we're talking scale. Now we're talking the potential for real change.

The way we think about...

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What is imposter...

 disproportionately better education facilities, health facilities, access to social services in those regions of high immigration to address the concerns of those local populations. But while we encourage that around the developing world, we don't take those lessons home

Why Brexit happened --...

 how power operates in civic life, those who understand how a bill becomes a law, yes, but also how a friendship becomes a subsidy, or how a bias becomes a policy, or how a slogan becomes a movement, the people who understand those things wield disproportionate influence,

Eric Liu: Why ordinary...

 have such a visceral hatred, anger, at some of these banking CEOs with their disproportionate salaries and bonus structures. It's not the numbers. It's that they have violated the very definition of leadership. They have violated this deep-seated social contract.

Why good leaders make...

 except here. In our biosphere, molecule-sized objects, genes, control vastly disproportionate resources. The first genes for photosynthesis, by causing their own proliferation, and then transforming the surface of the planet,

After billions of years...

 disproportionate attention to veterans who have committed crimes those struggling in their transitions those grievously wounded and those are important stories to tell but there's been comparatively less attention paid

Lessons we can learn...

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Bite of the Tasmanian...

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