Several factors account for the disproportionate role played by fund companis, Professor Baks says.

Meanwhile the opinions of newspaper proprietors played a disproportionate role in determining politicians' views of what the public wanted.

As a result, agricultural issues are likely to play a disproportionate role in the first stages of the Democratic and Republican nomination contests.

In the contest among jurors to recruit fellow members to one or another version of what happened, strong voices play a disproportionate role.

The rate for those outside of the labor force was 50.6 percent, probably reflecting the disproportionate role of the elderly, who generally have higher turnout rates.

Will donors take a disproportionate role in shaping school policy?

The school's core is and will be military training, they say, perpetuating the militaries' disproportionate role in Latin American democracies.

The situation amounts to a little-noticed crisis in the very institutions that, for their size, play a disproportionate role in educating African-Americans.

Who are we to stigmatise, for example, the disproportionate role of the army, which 'slows down Turkey's development towards a democratic and pluralist system'?

We think, however, that the EU is being given a disproportionate role in road safety work.