Disproportionate exercise of police powers

Sense and Nonsense about Disproportionate Force

It is neither disproportionate nor excessive.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power.

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.

Progress has also been disproportionate in relation to the Goals.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Finally, the source is of the opinion that the sentence handed down is disproportionate to the alleged offences.

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Those are the people who wind up actually ingesting a disproportionate amount of this poisonous plastic and using it.

And resolving internal problems through a disproportionate use of force reassured even the regime s security obsessed ex KGB men.

Kosovo's Serb community is, regrettably, often the victim of misinformation that is disproportionate to the facts on the ground.

The disproportionate economic impact of the tsunami on my country is far too great for us to rebound easily.

Norway was especially concerned about the Israeli army's recent disproportionate use of force in densely populated areas of Gaza.

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But civilian deaths as a result of military combat are not enough to say that disproportionate force has been used.

Environmentally unsustainable water use has a disproportionate impact on women and children, whose needs must be accorded the highest priority.

This led to the rise of exports, and a simultaneous rise in imports.