This process, he argued, puts disproportionate focus on this speech and gives the impression of widespread support regardless of actual support.

The US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council said the US "continues to be deeply troubled by this council's biased and disproportionate focus on Israel."

An advocate of research into environmental causes of mental illness, Lidz was a notable critic of what he saw as a disproportionate focus on biological psychiatry.

In 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that the Commission should not have a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel.

"We cannot have a disproportionate focus on business travelers at the expense of leisure passengers," he added.

In 2007 Human Rights Watch noted the Human Rights Council disproportionate focus on Israel and accused it of failing to take action on other countries facing human rights crises.

That the mayor showed up "sent a message" to grieving Dominican immigrants, some of whom, Mr. Pérez included, couldn't help noticing a "disproportionate" focus on Belle Harbor.

Shortly before 9/11 I wrote in a book that nonconventional attacks were a genuine and probably growing threat, but that the disproportionate focus on them left a distorted picture of the terrorist threats the United States actually faced.

Mr. Annan's successor, Ban Ki-moon, told a human rights gathering in December that he was "worried by its disproportionate focus on violations by Israel."

Proponents of the Electoral College claim that adoption of the popular vote would shift the disproportionate focus to large cities at the expense of rural areas.