The winners are even more disproportionate, with 42 percent of the winners being from the South.
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Here, the shaming seemed even more vitriolic, more disproportionate — perhaps because the tragedy hit closer to home.
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He said it could lead to even more disproportionate stops of African Americans, Hispanics and other minorities.
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Two-thirds of all filibusters have come in the past 30 years, with an even more disproportionate number in the past decade.
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Will there be talk about how Black women are dying at a much more disproportionate rate during childbirth than any other race of women?
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"Poor and working people, particularly people of color, have a far, far more disproportionate lack of access to the internet than white communities," Sassaman explained.
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Critics of the software also argue it perpetuates racial bias inherent in crime data and the justice system, which could lead to more disproportionate stops of people of color.
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And it leads to an even more disproportionate effect on the volume of trade, because it leads to a sharp increase in shipments of intermediate goods as well as final goods.
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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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Their rate of being placed outside their home because of maltreatment was even more disproportionate: eight out of every 903,000 black children residing in the county were placed outside their home that year, compared with just 1.7 of every 1,000 white children.
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In biology, fins can have an adaptive significance as sexual ornaments. During courtship, the female cichlid, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, displays a large and visually arresting purple pelvic fin. "The researchers found that males clearly preferred females with a larger pelvic fin and that pelvic fins grew in a more disproportionate way than other fins on female fish."Female fish flaunt fins to attract a mate ScienceDaily.
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During courtship the female displays her visually arresting purple pelvic fin During courtship females display a large and visually arresting purple pelvic fin as a sexual ornament (see image left). "The researchers found that males clearly preferred females with a larger pelvic fin and that pelvic fins grew in a more disproportionate way than other fins on female fish."Female fish flaunt fins to attract a mate ScienceDaily. 8 October 2010.
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It was the first election in Spain where women had the vote, following the new constitution.Beevor (2006). p. 27. This incorporated a new 6,800,000 electors. The elections were held under Republican electoral law, which was would guarantee a certain percentage of seats in a district to a plurality of votes no matter how weak the plurality. This law was amended in July 1933 to make it even more disproportionate (winning a plurality guaranteed 67% of seats and winning a majority guaranteed 80% of seats).
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Genjimisu Meng, a T40 Chinese athlete, at the 2012 Summer Paralympics This classification is for disability athletics. Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the athletes in this classification as: "Dwarf class - achondroplasia or similar J18 years old max height: 145cm (male) 140cm (female)." The Australian Paralympic Committee defines this classification as being for athletes who have the "People with dwarfism due to achondroplasia or a variant of this." A 2012 International Paralympic Committee Athletics Classification Project report proposed splitting the current T40 classification, with more restrictive T40 eligibility criteria (for shorter or more disproportionate athletes) and a new T41 classification (for athletes at the minimum disability end of the current class).
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Depending on the specific terms of the arbitration clause, a consumer plaintiff may be entitled to recover attorney's fees and/or expert witness fees that are not otherwise available in court. However, the increase in the prevalence of litigation-style discovery and the tendency for summary judgment and other dispositive motions to be unavailable or denied in arbitration may increase these costs such that they are no longer cheaper in arbitration than in litigation. To reinforce the viability of the consumer arbitration system, many companies commit to reimburse the cost of filing an arbitration even for consumers who do not ultimately win further compensation. When individual arbitration is compared to a class action in litigation, though, these costs may be more disproportionate to the individual amount of relief to which an individual is entitled.
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In 1970 Russian was spoken as the native language by 36% inhabitants of the Latvian SSR, including 6% of the total population who were not ethnic Russians, and fluently as a second language by 31% of inhabitants (including 47% Latvians), while only 18% Russians reported having any knowledge of Latvian. It was even more disproportionate among the Latvian SSR's non-Russians and non-Latvians: 152,897 claimed Russian as their first language, in comparison with only 28,444 who claimed Latvian as their first language. In 1972 the , was smuggled outside the Latvian SSR and circulated in the Western world, accusing Communist Party of the Soviet Union of "Great Russian chauvinism" and "progressive Russification of all life in Latvia": A bilingual (Latvian-Russian) 1980 identity card of the people's Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR In 1989 Russian was already the native language to 42% inhabitants, including 8% of the population who were non- Russians, while 39% inhabitants spoke it fluently as a second language. From 1989 to 1990 an average of 47.5% pupils had enrolled in schools with Russian as the language of tuition, and the number was even higher (69.3%) in urban centres, meaning that not only an overwhelming majority of non-Latvians but also some Latvians had enrolled in Russian-language schools.
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