• Even if the Eden-Mollet technique achieves what it is intended to achieve which is, presumably, a shock sharp enough to bring about the end of fighting, the fall of President Nasser and recovery of some permanent western authority over Suez Canal traffic the damage still promises to be out of proportion.

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  • Jamie Hepburn, SNP MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, said he was "dismayed" at the level of cuts which appeared to be "out of proportion" with reductions elsewhere in the company.

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  • In areas where there is a high current demand for rented housing, the report says land could be made available to developers on the grounds that a proportion of the homes built be let out to tenants.

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  • Hence, in turn, our own notion that a white elephant is a valuable possession which cannot be disposed of, even though the expense of maintaining it is out of all proportion to its usefulness or worth.

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  • But he came in for criticism after 11 September 2001, when he said the attacks on New York were "blown out of proportion" and people should be more worried about the plights of whales and elephants.

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  • Historically, about half of homeowners who get a foreclosure notice are ultimately displaced from their homes, but that ratio may turn out to be higher in coming quarters because the proportion of subprime borrowers, who have weaker financial conditions than prime borrowers, is higher.

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  • Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Nick Harvey said that the damage caused by the cuts was out of all proportion to the savings that would be achieved.

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  • The 59-year-old manager, who has been in charge of Arsenal since 1996, added that he would be defending his player because he felt the reaction had been blown out of proportion.

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  • We have, I think, 110, 000 people coming in in this last year, of whom only a tiny proportion will turn out to be real asylum seekers.

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  • But geometry is even more important for the movement: a movement must be geometrically perfect, nothing superfluous, nothing that makes the movement look out of proportion, and it must have the perfect finish.

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  • At the moment, 40% of unemployed people are between 16 and 24, and if that proportion is still the case then 1.18 million young people will be out of work.

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