Nonetheless, many Democrats complained that the impact of some of Mrs. Rell's proposed tax increases focused unfairly on lower- and middle-class residents.

In the suit several homeless people charged that the program was unconstitutional because it unfairly focused on the homeless.

Charges that American television coverage is unfairly focusing on this nation's dark side during the Olympics are prompting a spasm of anti-Americanism here.

Advocates for Arab and Muslim immigrants say the authorities are unfairly focusing on people who have nothing to do with terrorism.

Ms. Spears said the curfew would unfairly focus on the city's poor neighborhoods, which are predominantly black.

Israeli officials argue that international monitors would focus unfairly on their military measures, because they are easier to track than Palestinian suicide bombers.

One of the unfortunate aspects" of the current procedure, Mr. Mitchell said, is "that it unfairly focuses all of the criticism on one person.

And many in the civil rights movement accuse the critics and the news media of unfairly focusing the debate on the concerns of aggrieved whites.

It just became that, and it sort of was too late to change when we started thinking that this could focus unfairly on me.

He said the strategy unfairly focused on only a single aspect of Ms. Burstein's agenda.