Citing the extreme statistical disparity, Justice O'Connor said the employer had "a firm basis for believing that remedial action was required."

It allows extreme disparities in sentences for similar crimes.

Even though "[M]ost democratic socialists recognize that strict equality of incomes is unworkable and also unjust",(p211) extreme disparities seem to be "immoral."

But the most extreme disparities apply to highly touted wines, almost all of them from Bordeaux and Burgundy, that are in short supply.

I have a cynical notion that all religious revivals spawn from times of extreme economic disparity.

The extreme disparity in economic and military power between Japan and the western colonial powers was a great cause for concern for the early Meiji leadership.

China has the most extreme disparity, with big-cap companies selling at 71.4 times prospective earnings, compared with 19.6 for small caps.

In not letting borrowers bear all the risk/cost of a failure, an extreme disparity of outcomes between "partners" is thus avoided.

The greatest problem in Guatemala was then - and still is - the extreme disparity between wealth and poverty.

Scientific collaboration and cooperation offers the chance to overcome the extreme disparities in development.