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.
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".
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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Mike, beneath everything you say there is a clear sense you feel the things being said about you are the way out of proportion to your confessed transgressions.
So, the impression of that noisy shouting is more than actually, as Mr. Harris just said, it's out of proportion to what really was there, although, it was there.
Enormous fees, out of proportion to the work done or the miles flown, also pay for the dead periods between mandates, and for the bidding contests that the banks fail to win.
If your actions are criticized, the leaderly thing to do is to answer the critics, engage them, but remember that nowadays a minority opinion can get attention that is way out of proportion to the actual influence of that particular group.
But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
First and foremost, the punishment is out of all proportion to the alleged crime.
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In Britain landfills are taxed out of all proportion to the damage they do the environment.
Yet fox hunting has generated passions out of all proportion to the numbers concerned.
The reset has, by this point in time, attracted media attention out of all proportion to its observable real-world impact.
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But by the time the euro rolled around, money was flowing into these countries out of all proportion to the opportunities available.
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And, despite their reduced numbers, grammar schools still provide academic success out of all proportion to the number of students they educate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the cost of tenting, outdoor bathrooms and county permits isn't enough to send a wedding budget spiraling out of proportion, Walter Reeves says to factor in the cost of renting an aerator or even investing in new sod.
Internet infringement certainly could cause some harm to some companies, but it is critical to understand the size and scope of the problem before applying prescriptions that cause unnecessary, out of proportion collateral damage to other industries and the Internet.
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What rankles with many critics of the ban is that it appears out of proportion when compared to punishments handed out for similar offenses.
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.
His early work in South Africa and Namibia studying termite mounds, prodigious natural chimneys of earth out of all proportion in size to the small termites that build them, did not turn him into a Darwin skeptic, by any means, but it did prod him to realize how important the role of environment is to the survival and flourishing of a species.
But just to keep a sense of proportion, it is important to point out it will remain a long way off the highs of the 1980s.
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.
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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