Motorcycle groups say the scale of the damage has been blown out of proportion.
There's a small problem, but one that was blown out of proportion by the press.
Sometimes that gets out of proportion, especially when the media gets its teeth into a story.
"It's completely out of proportion, " a Lufthansa spokesman was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
So why blow things out of proportion when certain Muslims are brought to task for their blatant hypocrisy?
But he complained that the incident was blown out of proportion -- in part because he is a Kennedy.
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Dr Horton said new drugs had in some cases been manipulated and hyped out of proportion by the companies.
"If the stripes are too big, it looks out of proportion, " she says.
Often, the risk as reported in the media is grossly out of proportion with the actual risk you face.
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The perennial fascination with Joan may seem out of proportion to the facts.
Dependency exemptions seem to take on a role in divorce negotiations that is out of proportion to their economic significance.
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He refused, saying the shareholders had elected him, and he felt the punishment was out of proportion to the offense.
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott told BBC Radio 5 live that the whole issue had been blown out of proportion.
"The influence of Islamists on the future politics of Libya has been blown out of proportion by the media, " he said.
Some didn't even make initial proposals, or made merely token ones, deeming the effort out of proportion to the potential benefits.
Butt's lawyer Ali Bajwa had argued his sentence was "out of proportion to the seriousness of the offence that was committed".
Given that storms get this close (or closer) a couple of times every year, the coverage seems a bit out of proportion.
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Blow them too far out of proportion, and audiences will check out.
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael urged campaigners not to "punish society" with "irresponsible, illegal and completely out of proportion" acts of civil disobedience.
Unfortunately, as a result of such machinations, a legitimate, important but basically technical disagreement over procedures has been blown wildly out of proportion.
Today countries are often punished through financial contagion, but the punishment they receive is out of proportion to their crime of bad policies.
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The Journal editorial plucked one sentence from a long interview Khosla gave the San Francisco Chronicle last week and blew it out of proportion.
What rankles with many critics of the ban is that it appears out of proportion when compared to punishments handed out for similar offenses.
Mr. RUSSELL ROBERTS (Economist): I know the economic news doesn't seem very cheerful these days, but a lot of it is blown out of proportion.
"The captain's role has been built up way out of proportion, " said Nick Faldo, who led the European team in its 2008 defeat at Valhalla, KY.
George Washington University internist Matthew Mintz says the safety issue "has been blown way out of proportion" and that the bigger threat is underuse, not overprescribing.
"The security issues, while they're important, I think have been kind of blown out of proportion, " says Ken Baird, who oversees elections in Kings County, Calif.
"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.
The economic importance of statutory tax rates is blown far out of proportion by Republicans looking for ways to make taxes look high when they are quite low.
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