• The allocation of wealth, opportunities and government has always been and to this day remains widely out-of-proportion in favor of whites.

    NPR: Gates Case Should Expand Discussion Of Race

  • Ol' Chumbucket's family even appeared on a piracy blown-out-of-proportion episode of ABC's "Wife Swap, " which the man otherwise known as Baur, a reporter and editor for a St.

    CNN: Ahoy! 'Tis time to talk pirate, me hearties

  • Thousands of supporters are bused in -- totally out of proportion to the size of the state -- to stand for hours in massed ranks in the bitter cold, entreating passing motorists at street corners to honk their horns to show support.

    CNN: Hot politics on cold days

  • It is possible that putting the parent company into administration - thus wiping out a significant proportion of the club's debt - could save the club from a points deduction.

    BBC: Southampton await League inquiry

  • But he complained that the incident was blown out of proportion -- in part because he is a Kennedy.

    CNN: latimes.com: Talking baseball and politics with George W. Bush

  • He has aggressively exploited falling asset prices in Asia to take control of franchises, brought licensed-out products back in house and increased the proportion of directly operated stores.

    ECONOMIST: LVMH and Gucci

  • On the positive side, the review said Plymouth came 46th out of 324 local authorities in terms of proportion of business champions - young, small but rapidly-growing firms with directors that showed entrepreneurial skill.

    BBC: Plymouth unemployment tackled by new task force

  • Although the economic pain that is being inflicted on Russia and the ex-tigers is out of all proportion to the policy errors of their governments, the fact remains that the vulnerability to financial crisis was created not by international speculators and other bogeymen but by woefully inadequate oversight of domestic finance, private, public and quasi-public.

    ECONOMIST: Heading for meltdown? | The

  • Asked about their level of happiness, a large proportion of children were broadly positive - averaging 7.7 out of 10 - but more children reported feelings of unhappiness as they grew older and entered their teenage years.

    BBC: Family argument

  • The reset has, by this point in time, attracted media attention out of all proportion to its observable real-world impact.

    FORBES: Criticism of Obama's Reset with Russia: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

  • He agrees with Messrs Kharas and Rogerson that, as middle-income countries take more people out of poverty, the proportion of poor people who live in poor countries must rise.

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • "The judicial system is so out of proportion in America and the punishment is massive - he could lose his job, family and even life, " she added.

    BBC: David McIntyre

  • Four out of five second-generation immigrant children speak English fluently, but the same proportion are also fluent in Spanish.

    BBC: Life in Spanglish for California's young Latinos

  • And a lot of them went to ISU, a 13-year-old school in Strasbourg, France, whose influence is out of all proportion to its size.

    FORBES: The Space Mafia

  • Mr. SCOTT SAWLIS (Entomologist, Dallas County): They come out in very large numbers, a quick hatch of large, almost of biblical proportion-type mosquitoes.

    NPR: Unusual Breed of Mosquitoes Hits Dallas

  • Critics on the left are more inclined to complain that pressure groups exaggerate inequalities by giving those better-organised (ie, the rich and powerful) an influence out of all proportion to their actual numbers.

    ECONOMIST: POLITICS BRIEF

  • HMOs refer to the proportion of premiums they pay out for patient care as their "medical-loss ratio"--a chilling choice of words.

    CNN: Backlash Against HMOs

  • In 2008-2010, the prepaid phone market grew as a proportion of the overall handset market as many consumers opted out of long-term contracts that carried a fixed monthly plan.

    FORBES: LEAP Soars, PCS Dives - Both Face a Tough Winter

  • It helps that, of the 2.9m experiments that the Home Office says were carried out last year, only a small proportion were the sorts of procedures that make even pro-science types wince.

    ECONOMIST: Animal rights: Good news for humans | The

  • Zambia's problems have been compounded by floods which have wiped out a large proportion of this year's crop, coinciding with a shortfall of grain - particularly the country's main staple, maize - across Southern Africa.

    BBC: Zambia's economic travails

  • And although self-censorship is actually already taking place - artists, writers and comedians in the West are often more careful what they say about Islam than about Christianity (though sometimes for bad reasons, like fear) - this doesn't rule out the possibility of a minority view being blown out of all proportion.

    BBC: Viewpoints: Anti-Islam film and self-censorship

  • Never mind that Bayless took a lot of guff for starring in a 2003 Burger King commercial. (Bayless, who gave the proceeds to charity, says the issue was blown out of proportion by bloggers.) Last year Valdes and Bayless decided to go ahead with a food-court restaurant at Chicago's Marshall Field's department store, but naturally they came to loggerheads.

    FORBES: The Odd Couple

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