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282 examples of Disproportionately in a sentence

The fourth thing is labor is disproportionately more expensive than materials.
And so, poor people who are making these products in petrochemical centers like Cancer Alley, poor people who are consuming these products disproportionately, and then poor people who, even at the tail end of the recycling, are having their lives shortened.
One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.
But this number disproportionately affects African American children.
So in the weeks and months that followed, health workers were disproportionately affected by the Ebola virus disease.
What would it feel like to be living in a world where the nation state of Germany was executing people, especially if they were disproportionately Jewish?
But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, 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.
It will disproportionately harm the poorest and the most vulnerable, as will the increasing rise of population.
And we consume so much that again, a rise of 6.5 billion to 9.5 billion in our grandchildren's lifetime will disproportionately hurt the poorest and the most vulnerable.
The more you do of something, disproportionately the better you get.
Since that first study, the same thing has been established across gender, race, age, and a huge range of occupations, though it may be more prevalent and disproportionately affect the experiences of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.
Families with high energy burdens are disproportionately people of color, who spend more per square foot than their white counterparts.
So those who are suffering disproportionately don't drive cars, don't have electricity, don't consume very significantly, and yet they are feeling more and more the impacts of the changes in the climate, the changes that are preventing them from knowing how to grow food properly, and knowing how to look after their future.
But the unknown reality is that the US has a dark history of disproportionately punishing people because of their political beliefs.
We know the price tag is higher for low-income women, therefore disproportionately for women of color.
But in looking at that, one of the policy prescriptions is that we have to provide disproportionately better education facilities, health facilities, access to social services in those regions of high immigration to address the concerns of those local populations.
If this is true, and I think it is, then women who have disproportionately cared for the little ones and the sick ones and the aging ones, have disproportionately benefited from the most profound kind of knowing there is: knowing the human condition.
But African-Americans are also disproportionately likely to use Android devices that do nothing at all to protect them from that surveillance.
All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria.
Even though these diseases disproportionately affect women, they are not women's diseases.
The Internal Revenue Service has disproportionately audited groups that have "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their name.
Unfortunately, the science is probably closer to being climatology in that in many cases, very, very small changes can have disproportionately huge effects, and equally, vast areas of activity, enormous mergers, can actually accomplish absolutely bugger-all.
Now, here's a potentially dumb question for any women watching: Have you ever stood in a disproportionately long bathroom line?
The father is a hideous monster with three teeth and a disproportionately large circular mouth-hole from which are uttered the most horrendous guttural noises, the son and mother are permanently horrified, incoherent creatures for whom terror is a way of life.
Despite some good flying kicks from some fighters, most of the fight effects turn out to be disproportionately mismatched sound edits.
Black people are disproportionately represented in prison?
This will happen at a time when the country’s skewed demographics causes the workforce to shrink and the flow of migration from rural areas to cities to slow (the rural population now disproportionately comprises the elderly).
Moreover, research output – as measured by publications and citations in international journals, as well as patents – is disproportionately low relative to population and financial capabilities.
Beyond being incomplete, this approach implicitly favors the wealthy, who hold a disproportionately large share of financial assets.
In the US, for example, sustained political determination would help to close massive loopholes in estate planning and inheritance, as well as in household and corporate taxation, that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
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