It was a truly tragic end to his premiership, and one that came to assume a disproportionate importance in any assessment of his career.

Jowitt gives disproportionate importance to the accepted wisdom and popularity ratings without adequately penetrating the material.

A "keystone species" is a species that "has disproportionate importance in their community."

Sulzbach's historical claim to fame stems from the birth of two industries of rather disproportionate importance to the village's size.

He held that a disproportionate importance had been given to kings, their ministers and generals, and that it was necessary rather to study the people.

Brother Paul himself was only about one-eighth black, but that eighth loomed with disproportionate importance in his home world.

The table, the chair, that unseen window, trivial objects though they were, assumed before her overwrought fancy an utterly disproportionate importance.

Similarly, limitations of Cul1 function in other organisms also uncovered the disproportionate importance of particular substrates.

Much Third World interest has been focused on this part of the convention, giving it a disproportionate importance as the first evidence of a new international economic order.

And their elusive enemy, the near-mythic Philip, took on a disproportionate importance.