But the scale of the punishment feels wildly disproportionate to me.
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For example, punishment can sometimes be wildly disproportionate to the perceived offense.
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"We see this as really disproportionate to what they're trying to achieve."
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It's disproportionate to what it would be if I was a woman.
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Residents have argued the police response was disproportionate to the alleged crime.
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Such "civil forfeiture" has often ended up grossly disproportionate to a defendant's sentence.
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He said the seizure was grossly disproportionate to the gravity of his offense.
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The emphasis on Russia is grossly disproportionate to its importance, which is nil.
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But the attention that MS-13 has received is disproportionate to its impact.
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The U.N. report said the military action was "grossly disproportionate to actual security threats".
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Their use against civilians is disproportionate to any threat those civilians pose to Assad's rule.
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In dance as in politics, Israel's visibility and influence are remarkably disproportionate to its size.
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"Trans people are killed at rates disproportionate to their numbers in the population," she says.
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"The punishment in terms of trafficking in fentanyl is so disproportionate to the effect," Sen.
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The prison industrial complex is bursting with Black and brown people, disproportionate to the crimes committed.
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News, and realized around the same time that her salary was disproportionate to her male colleague's.
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My anger just exploded out in this horrific way that was completely disproportionate to the situation.
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But it was so disproportionate to what was happening that I think it was actually misleading.
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In his statement, Obama said that Manning's sentence was "disproportionate" to those faced by other whistleblowers.
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It is supposed to have effects that are utterly disproportionate to the actual lethality of the attacks.
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Yet they affect society, and are affected by it, in ways and numbers disproportionate to their population.
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However, this preparation for a cyber doomsday might be disproportionate to how breaches affect the bottom line.
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But the N.R.A. also wields political power disproportionate to the size of its membership, as it did then.
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Yet Norwich continually sends athletes to the Olympics and other competitions in numbers ridiculously disproportionate to its size.
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On the face of it, the veneration of Kuyt on Merseyside seems disproportionate to his achievements at Liverpool.
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My country is, particularly in the past few months, experiencing an influx of refugees disproportionate to its size.
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Our disgust of roaches might be disproportionate to that of other pests, but is it, at any level, reasonable?
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But the piles of money they receive now is grossly disproportionate to the value they bring to the world.
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Forfeitures are now considered the same as fines under the clause, meaning forfeitures cannot be disproportionate to the offense.
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There are thousands like him serving sentences in our federal and state systems that are disproportionate to their crimes.
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Johnson said that he was not discrediting those restrictions, but said they were disproportionate to the virus' actual threat.
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Michigan" — a 21973 ruling banning "grossly disproportionate" sentences — "claiming the sentence you received is grossly disproportionate to the crime.
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And black and Latinx people are arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for marijuana crimes at rates far disproportionate to their populations.
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With an estimated 199573,199563 members in a country of 199553 million people, the gangs hold power disproportionate to their numbers.
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"The penalty right now is disproportionate to the crime," said Mr. Johnson, the Council speaker, who applauded Mr. Vance's policy.
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The passion (great) is disproportionate to the degree that Chelsea Peretti's mode of eating cake affects our lives (not at all).
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Facebook makes about half of its advertising revenue outside of North America, but its business is disproportionate to its user base.
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Convinced my legs were disproportionate to the rest of my body, I'd cry in my car as I drove to school.
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Either way, in the long run, the cultural cachet he accrued at Celtic was far disproportionate to his number of games.
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"It is disproportionate to have new legislation to see if you can sanitize the remaining 5 percent of available platforms," Jeppesen says.
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"On account of this specific goal, AGI has high visibility, disproportionate to its size or present level of success," the researchers say.
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That news is seen as important to the republic in a way that is disproportionate to maybe other kinds of content. Right.
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"30 percent is disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service."
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But they argue that his being held in a Moscow detention center while awaiting trial is disproportionate to the charges against him.
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"African-Americans and Hispanics are arrested, convicted and incarcerated at rates disproportionate to their share of the general population," the notice said.
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Elderly voters (who turn up at the polls disproportionate to their numbers) were especially resistant, with 59 percent opposing single-payer plans.
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"I strongly condemn the brutal intervention of the gendarmerie, strongly disproportionate to the manifestations of most people in Piata Victoriei," he wrote.
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Such could be the case, for example, if black and Latino individuals experienced arrest at a rate disproportionate to their share of offending.
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The Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the maldistribution of Senate seats allow the GOP to enjoy political power that's disproportionate to their voting support.
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The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has long wielded influence disproportionate to the number of Tigrayans, who are about 6% of the population.
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A trial court and an Indiana appeals court both found the seizure unlawful on the grounds that it was disproportionate to the offense.
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According to the report, 64 percent of student loan debt is held by women, which is a figure disproportionate to their enrollment level.
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I didn't know what to say; my months-long reaction was entirely disproportionate to what had happened, and I couldn't explain it myself.
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The number of questions I get about Trebek is far disproportionate to the amount of time I actually got to spend with him.
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Democrats will continue to expand their popular vote margin while the GOP will hold power disproportionate to their dwindling share of the vote.
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One of their discoveries was that cutting small luxuries had a negative effect on employee morale and motivation disproportionate to the money saved.
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Ransoms are becoming disproportionate to the size of targets, said Kelly Castriotta, Allianz SE North American head of product development for financial lines.
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That pressure was disproportionate to what Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has also proposed "Medicare for all" and a wealth tax, received.
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I was told repeatedly from Marissa and others that the content that was edgier was not disproportionate to the rest of the internet.
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However, years later, the European Court of Human Rights found his sentence "manifestly disproportionate" to his actions, worrying it would limit freedom of expression.
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Giving money to disaster relief organization like the Red Cross is an emotional act, which is disproportionate to the amount of money you give.
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Though she had only 170 Twitter followers, her message rocketed through cyberspace at warp speed, leading to a reaction wildly disproportionate to the offense.
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Shah rejected many of Yahoo's arguments, including its contention that a class-action suit could force it to accept damages disproportionate to its activity.
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And in the church as in the government, the scorched-earth tactics of ultraconservatives often gives them a sway disproportionate to their actual numbers.
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The provision would prohibit airlines from imposing ancillary fees that the DOT deems unreasonable or disproportionate to the actual costs incurred by air carriers.
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Jay Pattisall, a Forrester analyst, wrote in a recent blog post that the price of a Super Bowl ad was disproportionate to its returns.
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Nearly one out of three black franchisees left McDonald's since Easterbrook became CEO, which the lawsuit alleges is disproportionate to the overall franchisee system.
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While it's not common for royals to show their shoulders during official engagements, the reaction to Markle's skin has been disproportionate, to say the least.
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But on open platforms, 30% is disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service.
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Archie Andrews frequently delivers his neighbors from perilous scenarios disproportionate to their suburban surroundings, and this time it seems that only he can save himself.
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For 85033 years, this organization has been a prime catalyst of violence against Israelis that is disproportionate to the size and power of the organization.
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When the investigator asked for documentation, EMB challenged the request in court, saying it was disproportionate to request details on all 400 of its clients.
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Obama granted Manning clemency in January, saying she had taken responsibility for her crime and her sentence was disproportionate to those received by other leakers.
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In the past two decades, there has been a thrilling surge of contemporary dance in Israel completely disproportionate to the size of that small nation.
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The media attention to full-throttle progressives among newly elected House Democrats is disproportionate to their numbers, and it sometimes obscures a sizable, practical middle.
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And the rare prosecuted cases generally seem disproportionate to the offense involved — with confused individuals in the dock rather than old-fashioned Chicago-style machines.
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Hours later, senior DOJ officials overruled the prosecutors, said the initial recommendation was "extreme and excessive and disproportionate to Stone's offenses," and recommended a lower sentence.
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But the federal judge handling the case, Michael Hogan, instead gave them lesser sentences, saying the five-year penalty would be "grossly disproportionate" to the crimes.
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But a senior Justice Department official told CNN the finding was "extreme and excessive" and disproportionate to Stone's offenses and was not communicated to department leaders.
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He said this with an air of grievance entirely disproportionate to what happened, which concerned all of two questions across two events during the Democratic primary.
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"I firmly condemn riot police's brutal intervention, strongly disproportionate to the actions of the majority of people in the square," he said on his Facebook page.
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And as a result of this financialization is your bill is going up and up and up, completely disproportionate to the cost of producing electricity, water, whatever.
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The department found the recommendation to be extreme and excessive and grossly disproportionate to Stone's offenses and the department will clarify its position in court later today.
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Similarly, the last season of HBO's "Girls" -- whose critical and cultural impact was always disproportionate to the size of its audience -- averaged a pretty paltry 1.09 million.
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One provision would prohibit airlines from imposing baggage or cancellation fees that the Transportation Department deems "unreasonable" or disproportionate to the actual costs incurred by air carriers.
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Often, the rage is disproportionate to the sacrifice: for example, prominent conservatives suggesting violence against government officials because they don't like the performance of phosphate-free detergent.
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The internal actions taken following the border dispute were disproportionate to the threats posed by the conflict and were never formally sanctioned by any Eritrean legal process.
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The prosecution, for its part, pressed its theory that there was no immediate threat, and that the force used was grossly disproportionate to what the situation demanded.
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Manafort's team wrote Friday that amount of time is "clearly disproportionate" to his crimes, which include tax fraud, bank fraud and lying on other federal financial forms.
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On Thursday, he approved military strikes on Iran before calling them off, saying the attack would have been disproportionate to Iran's downing of an unmanned American surveillance drone.
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After a while (even a stretch of time that may seem disproportionate to the length of the affair), your friend should feel normal and ready to date again.
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If you actually read the letter that got Erika Christakis in so much trouble at Yale, for example, it's clear that the outrage was disproportionate to the content.
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Why it matters: These memos have taken on a role in the inter-party battle over Russia that is in some ways disproportionate to what they actually contain.
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Trump approved military strikes on Iran on Thursday before calling them off, saying the attack would have been disproportionate to Iran's downing of an unmanned American surveillance drone.
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"The restriction is an appropriate measure to confront the threat ... and does not have a negative effect on the market's efficiency, disproportionate to its benefits," the regulator said.
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"There was a huge pile of Canadians, amazingly enough, who had been interested in the use of technology in music, almost disproportionate to the population," she tells THUMP.
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A disaffection more extreme than Benjamin's—more in line with the disaffection of his actual generation—would have seemed disproportionate to the innocuous "evils" that Nichols has depicted.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Japanese plans to deploy U.S. missile defense systems on its soil were disproportionate to the missile threat in the region.
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But I do think that it loses some of its creativity, for me, when there are lines crossed which feel a bit disproportionate to the stakes in the battle.
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"[T]he serious risks engendered by that obligation within a democratic society must not be disproportionate to the advantages it offers in the fight against serious crime," he adds.
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"So even if there are not that many people out on boats, they have an aggregate impact on the air and our water that's far disproportionate to their numbers."
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Former President Obama commuted Manning's 35-year sentence in 2017, explaining that her punishment after serving nearly seven years behind bars was "disproportionate" to that of other convicted leakers.
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They are expected to tell the judge Manafort is remorseful and that the sentencing guidelines cited by prosecutors call for a prison term disproportionate to the offenses he committed.
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"The reason we're doing this is because it's now something that's legal, and the consequences of the criminal record are disproportionate to the gravity of the offense," he added.
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All told, the CDC found that none of the reported side effects for Shingrix were "disproportionate to adverse event reporting patterns observed for other vaccines" in the VAERS system.
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Even when the tabloids don't use race-baiting language, Meghan is targeted in ways that are disproportionate to the typically harsh, often absurd criticism all royal family members get.
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Mr. Enrich's intense sympathy for Mr. Hayes — his 14-year sentence is wildly disproportionate to his responsibility for the system's corruption — has positive and negative consequences for the book.
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And this ability is particularly valuable in rural areas, where doctor shortages are disproportionate to the rest of the country and where more than 450 hospitals are vulnerable to closures.
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A state court sided with Timbs and found that the forfeiture of the car was disproportionate to the crime he committed, citing Indiana's maximum fine of $10,000 for any felony.
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We want to know that adulthood means you can get away from people like Paul, whose success is so disproportionate to his skills, or to what he might morally deserve.
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Despite setbacks, like a spinal cord stenosis, which causes a child's head to become disproportionate to their smaller frame (commonly found in dwarfism), Wyatt remains "brave" according to his parents.
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I figured I was just upset about going all the way there and not feeling the ayahuasca, but another participant pointed out that my feelings were disproportionate to the situation.
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The Missouri Court of Appeals declined to rule on the nature of his sentence—Johnson has argued that the length is disproportionate to the crime, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.
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Allowing founders control disproportionate to their economic interest paid off at Facebook but not at the struggling GoPro, where the shares are trading at less than half the I.P.O. price.
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It was so easy to play continuously through an afternoon or an evening, in part because the great satisfaction of my achievements was so disproportionate to the effort I expended.
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" But a few pages later, he is informing us that young Indians "had an ability to deal with phones and computers … completely disproportionate to their material circumstances and formal education.
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Allowing founders control that's disproportionate to their economic interest paid off at Facebook but not at struggling GoPro, where the shares are trading at less than half the IPO price.
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Investigations across the country have uncovered many examples where the property seized was disproportionate to the crime, taken from innocent citizens or targeted in accordance with law enforcement wish lists.
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The size of this army was disproportionate to the typical size of Germanic Iron Age villages, which suggests newfound organization and leadership, and the practice of recruiting soldiers from far away.
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Haji-Ioannou, who co-founded Fastjet, had called for the immediate dismissal of Winter, saying the CEO had created a high cost base that was disproportionate to its six-aircraft fleet.
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"I'm proud of the work we did at Facebook, but I've also been very clear that the financial rewards I got were disproportionate to the work we put in," Hughes says.
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The president said he withdrew the plan because he believed the loss of life — estimated to be about 150 people — would have been disproportionate to the downing of an unmanned drone.
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And even though this Sina post has a pretty high number of comments coming in at 2000, it's still pretty disproportionate to the 154,876 likes and over 18,000 shares it received.
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"The sentence of six years imprisonment, in all the circumstances, is disproportionate to the crime of murder committed, that is to say, shockingly too lenient," the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said.
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"The attention and buzz surrounding car-sharing and shared mobility is disproportionate to the impact it will have on vehicle sales," Brian Collie a partner and managing director with BCG, says.
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Presidential spokesman Eugenio Chicas insisted the clampdown was not disproportionate to the size of the problem, adding it was one of a range of measures being used to tackle the gangs.
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Coverage of Ebola was alarmist and disproportionate to the threat, and absent from much of the reporting was an adequate explanation about the nature of the disease and how it spreads.
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Critics of the new emergency security powers say the human cost of such warrantless searches, about 2000,2100 of which have been conducted since the Paris attacks, has been disproportionate to their efficacy.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar's "brutal security operation" against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, saying it was disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.
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"People think of Australia as a small little country, but in terms of investable capital, it's massively disproportionate to their population," Life2000 CEO Chris Hulls said in a recent interview with CNBC.
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Somerville's case prompted outrage on social media, with many people calling his punishment disproportionate to the offense and pointing out that having a misdemeanor on his record would affect his employment prospects.
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In a series of tweets Friday, the president said he called off the strike because he believed the attack would have been disproportionate to Iran's downing of an unmanned American surveillance drone.
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For her audacity, which (the reader knows) is a consequence of naïveté, not lust, Fidelma will be viciously punished, as in a fairy tale in which consequences are wildly disproportionate to causes.
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Appeals judges at the Hague said Bemba had served more than 80% of the maximum possible sentence, and they considered it "disproportionate" to detain him while he awaits sentencing on another case.
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We also believe that, even if every factual claim made by the prosecution were true, a sentence of 12 years in prison would be utterly disproportionate to the nature of the crime.
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Earlier, the president tweeted that he was "cocked and loaded" to strike several targets in Iran but deemed the loss of life would be disproportionate to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone.
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Thirty-three percent of the contestants on The Bachelor hail from the West and 31 percent from the South, which is disproportionate to the actual percentage of the US population breakdown by region.
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ISIS has correctly recognized that lone wolf attacks are nearly impossible to detect in advance, and cause levels of panic in the target state that are wildly disproportionate to the actual damage done.
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"There will never be enough funding for back-end prison reform programs as long as there is a steady stream of new inmates with lengthy sentences disproportionate to their crimes," Mr. Grassley wrote.
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However, USTR's report does not explain how it arrived at the $2.4 billion figure for retaliation, an amount that France has called "highly disproportionate" to the amount of revenue it expects to raise.
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In all, "Hong Kong's importance to the Chinese economy is disproportionate to its size," Tianlei Huang, a research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics think tank, wrote in a July report.
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They asked the justices to block the execution for either of two reasons: because Jones was challenging Georgia's lethal injection secrecy law or because he said his death sentence was disproportionate to his crime.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Executive pay that is disproportionate to a company's past performance may also signal that poor returns are coming, according to a study released on Monday by shareholder activist group As You Sow.
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The clearance operations were grossly disproportionate to any threat from militants, the panel said, noting that the security forces had made no attempt to identify a military target or distinguish between militants and civilians.
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More recently, Bavaria's economic strength has allowed the CSU to exert influence disproportionate to its size in its alliance - 'the Union' - with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which does not field candidates in Bavaria.
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African-Americans, Afro-Brazilians, Roma in parts of Europe and poor Filipinos, among many others, are all arrested and incarcerated for drug law violations at rates disproportionate to their numbers in their respective societies.
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ISIS has correctly recognized that this kind of attack is nearly impossible to detect in advance, and causes levels of panic in the target state that are wildly disproportionate to the actual damage done.
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Human rights activists say that the scale of the campaign has been disproportionate to the threat and that hundreds of Rohingya have died in operations that have included rapes and killings in their villages.
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A sale of the property was necessary as "the expense of keeping the property is excessive and/or is disproportionate to its fair market value", the parties said in the filing in a California court.
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Considering that, as with Martin Fisher, their lines of questioning are fairly uncontroversial relative to those asked in press conferences and interviews, the spontaneous rage they so often encounter is disproportionate to their actual role.
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Local nonprofit groups, Nicholls said, have done a "great job" of providing resources and shelter for the migrants, but the influx is disproportionate to their ability to provide for them, according to the news outlet.
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"We looked at whether these particular regions of the body appeared nude or emphasized through shading or were disproportionate to the body," Teresa Lynch, the lead author of the study, told Broadly in an email.
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The data is clear that the community knows, firsthand and every day, that the level of policing of black communities is so disproportionate to both the lethalness and the severity of crime that's taking place.
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There are warning signs for Democrats, too: Mr. Trump's party remains ascendant in rural America, giving Republicans a durable advantage in the Senate, where less-populous states have influence greatly disproportionate to their voting numbers.
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" That day, the Justice Department submitted a new sentencing memo recommending "far less" than the initial recommended sentence, with an unnamed DOJ official calling the initial recommendation "extreme, excessive, and grossly disproportionate to Mr. Stone's offenses.
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While some criticism has been disproportionate to the offense—Weiss's tweet was factually wrong, but written with good intentions—the op-ed page hasn't quite lived up to Bennet's high-minded call for freshness and diversity.
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"The basic benefit level would be disproportionate to the incomes on the island," said Carolyn Merck, a retired Congressional Research Service specialist, who testified at a 1990 hearing where extending SSI to Puerto Rico was debated.
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In a new filing Friday, Manafort's attorneys said the range "is clearly disproportionate" to the criminal conduct Manafort was found guilty of by a jury in a federal district court in northern Virginia over the summer.
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It's not that the players we hold in such contempt weren't culpable in the losses we remember them for—it's that the level of blame assigned to them is almost always disproportionate to their baseball crimes.
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An extremely heavy $42 billion was pulled out of mutual and exchange-traded funds in August, one of the larger outflows of recent years, hinting at a mini-panic disproportionate to the magnitude of market losses.
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Several years ago a study out of the Rochester Institute of Technology showed that deaf and hearing-impaired children suffered from mistreatment disproportionate to children free from those challenges — rates were, in fact, 25 percent higher.
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Mr. Zwijnenburg, the researcher, said the drones gave the Houthis an edge because they were cheap to produce, hard to detect and shoot down, and able to cause damage and disruption hugely disproportionate to their cost.
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It was unclear whether his appeal was successful, according to the AP. Leung's attorneys told the court that his sentence was disproportionate to his role and that more violent protesters received lighter sentences, according to Reuters.
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"I appreciate that she has been convicted but serving prison time seems to me to be disproportionate to her crime," wrote Mayor John Cranley in a letter to Dinkelacker requesting that he not send Hunter to jail.
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Speaking at a news conference on Sunday evening, Merkel said it would be disproportionate to ban dirty diesel cars from the road in places like Frankfurt, Hesse's largest city, where nitrogen emissions limits were only marginally exceeded.
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The UAE's agricultural sector accounts for just 1 percent of its economy, the EWS-WWF report noted, yet uses about one-third of its water - vastly disproportionate to its GDP contribution, said Fanack Water, a research group.
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Haji-Ioannou, whose private investment vehicle easyGroup has a 12 percent stake in Fastjet, said Winter had created significant overheads for the company, resulting in a high cost base that was disproportionate to its six aircraft fleet.
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"Each of these candidacies will garner media attention disproportionate to their actual levels of support among Republicans, the vast majority of whom support the president's renomination," said Ron Nehring, a former head of the California Republican Party.
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The airstrikes amounted to a war crime, the commission said, because the effect of the attack — denying water to so many people — was "grossly disproportionate" to the military advantage that the government could have anticipated or achieved.
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"The Department finds seven to nine years extreme, excessive and grossly disproportionate to Mr. Stone's offenses," an unnamed senior DOJ official told multiple press outlets Tuesday, adding that the department's position would be clarified later the same day.
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Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for the downing, but he abruptly reversed his decision, saying the expected casualty toll from a U.S. strike would have been disproportionate to Iran's downing of the unmanned spy drone.
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Days before the cyberattack, Trump had called off a conventional military assault against Iran, saying that the expected loss of life — estimated to be about 150 people — would have been disproportionate to the downing of the unmanned drone.
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If, however, fighters or military objects are targeted and civilians are killed or property destroyed unintentionally, no legal violation has occurred so long as the deaths or destruction are not disproportionate to the value of the military objective.
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The historical figure he most closely resembles, George Lincoln Rockwell, self-proclaimed dictator of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s, was also—at first—a master at garnering publicity that was completely disproportionate to his actual influence.
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Manafort's lawyers didn't ask for a specific sentence, but argued in Friday's filing that the range proposed by Mueller's office — which the US Probation Office had calculated — was "clearly disproportionate" to the crimes he was convicted of at trial.
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Replacers know that Democrats have succeeded in raising the issue of pre-existing health conditions (perhaps disproportionate to their real-life incidence and insurance effects), leaving Americans concerned about how people with expensive conditions will be affected by repeal.
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Whether as victims of sexual and gender-based violence in Syria or South Sudan, or of heightened vulnerability in drought or disasters from climate change worldwide, women suffer disproportionate to men but rarely have leading roles in policy decisions.
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Not only are Native women killed at rates 10 times the national average, Native people as a whole are incarcerated across the country at a rate more disproportionate to their general population makeup than any other group of people.
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But again critics of the copyright reforms argue it's outrageously disproportionate to seek to apply the same measures that are being applied to try to clamp down on terrorist propaganda and serious criminal offenses like child exploitation to police copyright.
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Indeed, there is growing evidence that a mechanism in the deal represents a major grant of power to corporations, one greatly disproportionate to the rights of all other domestic actors including local governments, tribal governments, environmental organizations, citizens, and companies.
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But in announcing its intent to appeal that sentence, prosecutors said in a statement Thursday, "We respectfully submit that the sentence of six years imprisonment, in all the circumstances, is disproportionate to the crime of murder committed," reports The Associated Press.
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When the next message from him did arrive, just after dinner, it was a harmless joke about Red Vines, but she deleted it immediately, overwhelmed with a skin-crawling loathing that felt vastly disproportionate to anything he had actually done.
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He really believed that he didn't need to create big bombs—he just had to set bombs off in public places in a kind of random way, and the public fear would be disproportionate to the size of the attack.
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During the Democratic candidates' recent debate in Brooklyn, he strongly criticized Israel for its policies in Gaza, which he called disproportionate to the threat that the nation faced, and he called on policymakers to acknowledge the rights and struggles of the Palestinians.
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Concurrently, the internet underwent its own series of changes: there was the rise of MySpace, the decline of forum culture; then Facebook and its real-name policy began to dominate the web, while Twitter saw its influence grow disproportionate to its size.
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A government has the right to suspend certain individual rights if there is a threat to national security, but the actions that have been committed as a response to the "no peace, no war" situation have been disproportionate to the actual threats.
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For socialists, the fundamental problem with our economic institutions is that there is a large class of relatively powerless people who work the hardest for the least money, and a small class of owners who reap benefits disproportionate to their actual labor.
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The trial court in Timbs' case, in which he was not sentenced to any jail time and had to pay fees and costs of $1,203, found that the seizure of the SUV, which he had purchased for $42,000, was grossly disproportionate to his crime.
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Trump approved military strikes against Iran late Thursday in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned American drone, before abruptly reversing his decision, saying the expected casualty toll from a U.S. strike would have been disproportionate to Iran's downing of an unmanned American spy drone.
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"I ended up wanting to write the book in order to partially tell my story and be clear that the financial reward that I got from three years' worth of work at Facebook was entirely disproportionate to the time and effort put in," says Hayes.
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The idea, which has been copied in cities like Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco, was intended as a sort of redress for the years before legalization when blacks and other nonwhites were arrested at rates that were disproportionate to their share of the population.
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"This broad package of measures, in particular restarting the asset purchase programme, is disproportionate to the present economic conditions, and there are sound reasons to doubt its effectiveness," Knot said in a statement, referring to the ECB's decision on Thursday to provide even more stimulus.
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While the sixties counterculture and punk rock had an impact disproportionate to the relatively small numbers directly involved, rave became a mass movement, so much so that the British government was moved to proscribe it in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
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The commutation had bipartisan support from lawmakers and had become a cause among many leading voices in the legal community, petitioning the Obama and Trump administrations to draw attention to a sentence they said was wildly disproportionate to the crime that had been committed.
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The chairman of the bipartisan U.S. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, said in 2628, that we should not continue a preference system that makes an ever-increasing demand for visas that is disproportionate to the number of visas available.
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"Only front-end reforms have the power to significantly stem the tide of incarceration, reduce the exorbitant cost of the prison system, and give redress to those inside who are serving sentences that are disproportionate to the severity of the offense," the groups wrote.
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" When Hyperallergic asked Pavlensky if a possible 10-year sentence seemed disproportionate to the alleged crime he committed, the artist responded by saying that it was indeed a long term, but "in my case this is only a numeral that limits the fantasy of the prosecutor.
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"Requiring WhatsApp to trace originator information is disproportionate to the laudable aim of preventing and detecting crimes, particularly since users can easily migrate to encrypted platforms that do not have such an obligation," WhatsApp stated in a 27-page submission to the court reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
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"We had to do a large amount of R&D and exploring in the process of diversification, and then we realized the sales of these businesses were a few billion yuan, disproportionate to the 600 billion yuan sales our property business is making today," Hui said.
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If you visited Trafalgar Square in London in recent years, you could gaze upon David Shrigley's "Really Good" (2016), a sculpture of a hand with the thumbs-up gesture — with the thumb grotesquely disproportionate to the hand, suggesting everything might not be supergood in Brexit-era London.
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With that backdrop, 1.23 pyramid cases per year hardly suggests that the FTC views the MLM industry as committing "egregious behavior," and certainly does not evidence an investment of time or resources by the FTC that is disproportionate to what is spent in other industry sectors.
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"While we should take the outbreak seriously, we mustn't panic and behave in a manner that is disproportionate to the threat we are confronted with," said Wilder-Smith, who was a front-line clinician at Singapore's Tan Tock Seng Hospital during the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003.
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Yet in his argument that the furor was largely disproportionate to the relationship, Tomasky blames the "rages" of Howell Raines, then the Times editorial page editor, and several of the paper's columnists for adding to the bonfire, neglecting to mention that The Times rejected impeachment as the punishment.
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While the crackdown in Rakhine began in response to the killings of police officers in October, human rights groups say the response has been disproportionate to the scale of the threat, especially because the area, along the border with Bangladesh, has never been a hotbed of Islamic militancy.
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" When Hyperallergic asked Pavlensky last October if a possible 10-year sentence seemed disproportionate to the alleged crime he committed, the artist responded by saying that it was indeed a long term, but "in my case, this is only a numeral that limits the fantasy of the prosecutor.
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The bust-buy sting at a rented north Seattle motel room on April 5 was "unwarranted, disproportionate to the harm caused, and would have little or no impact on the delivery business in Seattle," wrote King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg in a letter to police obtained by VICE News.
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You know how in Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread, and ends up being there for 19 years because he tried to escape a few times and fought some guards, thus extending his incarceration and rendering it extremely disproportionate to the original crime?
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Not only have the crimes perpetrated by the Eritrean government been disproportionate to the threats posed by the conflict, but more than two months after signing a peace agreement with Ethiopia, President Afwerki has not addressed the domestic situation in the country, let alone made any promises to bring about change.
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Every raid triggers a panic effect disproportionate to its impact; the fear triggered by the January 2016 raids was nothing compared with the current panic, but it still threw a shadow over some people who (if they'd known the facts) would have known they weren't at risk of being caught up at all.
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Maybe the larger point here is that there tends to be a certain amount of mysticism about trade policy, because the fact that it's global and touches on one of the most famous insights in economics, the theory of comparative advantage, gives it an amount of mind space somewhat disproportionate to its actual economic importance.
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And it shouldn't even be a debate, the coverage of Hillary Clinton's email was massively disproportionate to the quote-unquote underlying offense, and that's in part because — and I am guilty of this as well — we all thought Hillary Clinton was going to win, and so everyone covered it like Hillary Clinton was going to win.
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Harvard Professor Falls Victim to Group Outrage Cass Sunstein suggests that we use the word "lapidation" to describe online hate mobs: The English language needs a word for what happens when a group of people, outraged by some real or imagined transgression, responds in a way that is disproportionate to the occasion, thus ruining the transgressor's day, month, year or life.
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Even as revolutionary Americans rebelled against the British monarchy, declaring all men created equal, the founding fathers at the Constitutional Convention bowed to the South with three slave compromises that still haunt our nation: permitting the international slave trade; counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for congressional representation; and establishing the Electoral College, giving the South congressional representation disproportionate to its voter eligibility.
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Others, however, may see it as inherently unethical because the shamer has no real control over the proportionality of the response: In many cases of online shaming, the effects seem to be disproportionate to the offense that set them off (when the shaming goes viral and then marks the person, both online and off, potentially forever) — and proportionality is a key part of a just response.
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" However, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the pope's Pontifical Council for Life, the Vatican's bioethics advisory board, initially seemed to defend the courts' decision, saying in a statement, "We must do what advances the health of the patient, but we must also accept the limits of medicine and ... avoid aggressive medical procedures that are disproportionate to any expected results or excessively burdensome to the patient or the family.
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I ended up wanting to write the book in order to partially tell my story and be clear that the financial reward that I got from three years' worth of work at Facebook was entirely disproportionate to the time and effort put in, but to also make the case that my story, which is nothing but ... You know, the only thing we can call it is a lucky break, is unfortunately not that uncommon in the economy today.
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Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyJoseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies MORE (D-Mass.) unsuccessfully tried to attach an amendment to last year's FAA bill that would prohibit airlines from imposing ancillary fees that the DOT deems unreasonable or disproportionate to the actual costs incurred by air carriers.
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