The disproportion between effort and effect makes the picture seem a little silly, though.

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" Sirota regards that as a gross disproportion "in a country where only 30 percent of the population is white men.

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The brutal disproportion of power between the United States and its southern neighbours means that inter-American relations will never be tension-free.

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Blacks do in fact commit a large disproportion of violent crimes, and while the subject is not taboo in respectable public debate, it is delicate.

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The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke.

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In Barack Obama we have a man with little patience or taste for true leadership, with a defining disproportion between his experience and his power, who is a bigger hypocrite than Romney and far more consequentially so.

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"It's hardly surprising that so much of the coverage has been focused on him - a disproportion that increased when it was decided that there would be no official reviewing of the production's short recent run at the Globe, " noted Paul Taylor in The Independent.

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