As I explain in my book The Price of Inequality, much of the rise in US economic inequality is attributable to a government in which the rich have disproportionate influence and use that influence to entrench themselves.

Active party members hold more ideologically consistent views and hold them more strongly than most of those who are politically less engaged, giving activists disproportionate influence in the political process.

Disproportionate exercise of police powers

Mexico City s middle class residents who wield disproportionate influence countrywide are also incensed, both at the teachers for disrupting their lives and at the federal and local authorities for failing to restore order.

Sense and Nonsense about Disproportionate Force

It is neither disproportionate nor excessive.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power.

Progress has also been disproportionate in relation to the Goals.

There are a number of ways to account for Jews disproportionate achievement.

In this surreal world, the United Kingdom takes on disproportionate influence, because London is still a top financial center and because the biggest banks in the United States and Europe have proved very effective at playing off American and British regulators against one another.

And, if such limits were combined with public financing of election campaigns, they would also help the election to meet an important ethical standard by denying the rich a disproportionate influence on outcomes, and hence on the subsequent actions of the president and Congress.

And as you can see, Africa has a disproportionate share of the infection.

Such a consequence would, however, be disproportionate under article 26 of the Covenant.

Inherent in the concept of CIDT is the disproportionate exercise of police powers.

Unlike majority influence, minority influence can rarely influence others through normative social influence because the majority is indifferent to the minority's perspective of them.

Instead, certain members now do a disproportionate amount of the fighting, funding, and dying.

Compared to developed countries, rogue actors do disproportionate damage in a country like Guinea.

It is also women who suffer the disproportionate health impacts of unsustainable energy sources.

Although governments may try to cram public debt down the throats of local savers (by using, for example, their rising influence over banks to force them to hold a disproportionate quantity of government paper), they will eventually find themselves having to pay much higher interest rates as well.

As the war in Lebanon continues, the term disproportionate force is being bandied about as if some crystal clear principle of international law lay behind it, telling us when force is disproportionate and why it is illegal.

And here, again, we see Africa has a disproportionate share of the numbers of doctors.

(c) The disproportionate suffering of members of ethnic minorities, women and children from such violations

In other words, force becomes disproportionate when the costs of using it are too high.

Arab artistic influence in Sicily mirrors the Lombard influence in the Mezzogiorno.

We influence our friends who in their turn influence their friends, meaning that our actions can influence people we have never met.

So again, I look at the globe here and the disproportionate share of HIV in Africa.

Deeply concerned at the HIV AIDS pandemic, and at its disproportionate effect on women and girls,

The response to Hezbollah s initial aggression, as well as Israel s military response in Gaza, is disproportionate.

However, this does not mean that force becomes disproportionate simply when the costs outweigh the benefits.

How, then, do we know when force is disproportionate? This is a matter of constant debate.

Remarkably, disproportionate political, economic and military power is vested in the elites hailing from Tigray region.

Forgiving the disproportionate debt that continues to cripple developing economies will not make creditor countries poor.

Minority and majority influence combined There is evidence to suggest that it is possible for minority influence and majority influence to work together.

The group's influence on comedy has been compared toThe Beatles' influence on music.

Trading in influence

In response to Hamas rockets, Israel is now using disproportionate force, just as it did in Lebanon.

So what, then, does disproportionate force mean, and what is its place in the law of war?

The problem of disproportionate force has different contours on the battlefield, when soldiers are already at war.

Among all the dozens of war crimes in international law, none mentions the element of disproportionate force.

This must be done fairly, so that disproportionate focus on one side s abuses does not create distortions.

9.21 In any event, the obligations imposed by the exemption clause cannot be considered disproportionate or unreasonable.

Advocacy strives to influence a program or policy either directly or indirectly therefore, the influence is being evaluated, rather than the results of that influence.

Far from it. The same disproportionate patterns of school assignment exist throughout much of Central and Eastern Europe.

The author adds that the tapping of telephone calls between him and his lawyer was a disproportionate measure.

The disproportionate impact of HIV AIDS on women and girls is leading to a feminization of the disease.