The balance seems wildly disproportionate - the extraordinary amount of work producing minuscule improvements.

If not, Japan's troubles could choke off Asia's fragile recovery and force the United States to continue taking in a wildly disproportionate amount of the world's exports.

We have the same wildly disproportionate doctrine of the effect of physical cleanliness on moral character.

Such wildly disproportionate sentencing clearly violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Every once in a while the punishment is wildly disproportionate.

And he combines a vacuum-cleaner approach to the world's problems with a salesman's bent for wildly disproportionate comparisons.

They resented the wildly disproportionate coverage given by the national press to the New York team - if indeed the players actually lived in New York.

4 The wildly disproportionate percentage of liberals in the media is not an insignificant point.

"The number of incidents in this particular establishment is wildly disproportionate to any other place I have in the precinct," he said.

"They seek out the most vulnerable in a society and use a wildly disproportionate power relationship to almost coerce people into leaving their faith," he said.