Noun : architectural disproportions. ,the disproportions of an awkward body.    From Dictionary.com. 

The disproportion is far more acute in The West Indies than it has been elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Challenge of the West Indies] Reference

The disproportion is all the more surprising because females watch more TV than males.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Look at Online Video Differently | Impact Lab] Reference

Doesn’t really matter how far you go back, the Israeli’s failed to build on the Hamas truce and each escalation has been in disproportion to the cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Neocons Resurrect Plans For Regional War In The Middle East] Reference

Unless Israel uses what you call "disproportion", there won't be any Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Roman Catholic and Protestant countries -- a disproportion which is so significant that comment upon it is unnecessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Those who reason thus usually speak the words "disproportion" or.    From Wordnik.com.  [GayandRight] Reference

It is precisely here that the danger of "disproportion" was found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complex Vision] Reference

Those who reason thus usually speak the words "disproportion" or "asymmetry" in an indignant tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference

If the Israeli "disproportion" justifies itself, the human proportions of the Palestinians are also eliminated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

What an infinite disproportion there is between them!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

In the case of many nuts the disproportion is greater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

This disproportion between male and female scholars in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

It is a similar disproportion which has marked the campaigns of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

At Coal Harbor the disproportion was much greater than elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference

In the present female mind there is a disproportion in another direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

The intensity of the feeling makes up for the disproportion of the objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

We might even charge them with causing it, if the disproportion alone of the two sums.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference

The prolixity of the narrative, too, is always in monstrous disproportion to its importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

Then, if you see that any part begins to shrink into disproportion, you can easily remedy ft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

In wealth and comfort there was the same disproportion between the French and English colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

In all history there is no record of such a siege, of such a disproportion in the forces, of such.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

In looking at these figures, one cannot help being struck with the enormous disproportion between the journals of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Though her words have the fire, the devotion, the abandon of Heloise, they leave a certain sense of disproportion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

As matters eventuated, he raised the internal sphere so that the disproportion with the external might be reduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

I have heard young men complain bitterly about the disproportion between their bodily passions and their will-power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men in the Making] Reference

Some careful observers have occasionally attributed abortion to disproportion in size between the male and the female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

If, however, the breasts are abnormally large, it indicates maternal deficiency the same as any disproportion or extreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The rapid progression of obesity does not change the sad disproportion between the populations of rich and poor countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

In this particular Union the fee is optional, which may account, in some measure, for the seeming disproportion in members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference

Monti echoes the cry: "There has been a growing disproportion between the tasks assigned to the Commission and the resources.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Forced To Walk The Plank] Reference

The disproportion of the white and black elements of the population was then brought before the planters as a perplexing problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

We accordingly do not expect, and do not find a disproportion so vast; and yet, there is a great difference between the two sums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

As at the South, in the services of Mrs. Marsh here, there was a great disproportion between their showiness and their usefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

There is nothing but disagreement and disproportion -- a constant missing of the mark, a stretching of the hand for that which is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Yet the disproportion in number of those miscellanies which have succeeded in America, to those which enrich the republic of letters in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

Although the number of dead was in utter disproportion to the terrific six-hour cannonade, yet small as it was the torn and mangled bodies made such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The disproportion between the attention which has been given to viticulture and that which has been bestowed upon wool-growing is well brought out in the following table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Steroids cause muscles to grow without a compensating strengthening of the tendons that attach them to the bones, a disproportion that increases the risk of crippling injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toxic Strength] Reference