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586 examples of Representative in a sentence

Now, wouldn't it be amazing if people like Miss Margaret and the customer-service representative at the wiring place were graced to collect data with compassionate care?
Once, about four years ago, I attended a declamation, of a text by Davi Kopenawa, a wise representative of the Yanomami people, and it went more or less like this: "Doesn't the white man know that, if he destroys the forest, there will be no more rain?
It was not representative.
This was new and exciting for me, because previous work had been done on 2D, flat, plastic dishes that really weren't representative of what the cancer cells are exposed to in our bodies.
And finally, you can vote how you would like your elected representative to vote.
Modern representative democracies are being strangled in many countries by powerful interests.
Now, right now, there's no widely accepted standard that a company or corporation can follow, and that's where Just Capital comes in, because beginning this year and every year we'll be conducting a nationwide survey of a representative sample of 20,000 Americans to find out exactly what they think are the criteria for justness in corporate behavior.
So do babies care whether the tiny bit of evidence they see is plausibly representative of a larger population?
On the vertical axis, you'll see the percentage of babies who squeezed the ball in each condition, and as you'll see, babies are much more likely to generalize the evidence when it's plausibly representative of the population than when the evidence is clearly cherry-picked.
But rebuilding destroyed homes, restoring order, ensuring a representative political system, these are just as, if not more important, and not just for the security of civilians in Iraq and in Syria, but for our own security and for global stability.
We chose Uganda not because it's representative of all host countries.
Resist those who silence us, those who say that a prostitute is either too victimized, too damaged to know what's best for herself, or else too privileged and too removed from real hardship, not representative of the millions of voiceless victims.
We use 5,000-plus people, a representative sample of Americans based on the US census.
So if we were to update the existing form, we would need to make it more representative of how we interact here, now, in 2015.
Obviously, this applies off the dance floor as well, but on the floor, it gives us the perfect opportunity to update an old paradigm, reinvigorate an old relic, and make it more representative of our era and our current way of being.
A fact is not data, it may not be representative if it's only one data point.
Only if it's representative can it be data.
Now the average answer from this survey, which was supposed to be representative of the total population, was 24.
I got a phone call from the representative of a screenwriter that began pretty much the way all of those conversations did: "I've got Leo's next movie."
Our societies have become really diverse, which makes it difficult for pollsters to get a really nice representative sample of the population for their polls.
It was the only way to make them truly meaningful and representative of ourselves.
The experiences that I shared with you today taught me that to make data faithfully representative of our human nature and to make sure they will not mislead us anymore, we need to start designing ways to include empathy, imperfection and human qualities in how we collect, process, analyze and display them.
For example, we believe that by wearing a knee-length tunic and open bare feet, this was representative of a priest.
So, I'm a climate scientist, and if this room is representative of the country we live in, that means about 60 percent of you, so maybe from about there over, don't strongly trust me for information on the causes of climate change.
I'll give you a couple of representative quotes: "We can assert with some confidence that our own period is one of decline, that the standards of culture are lower than they were 50 years ago, and that the evidences of this decline are visible in every department of human activity."
I mean, this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the 15th century; here is a representative example of the depiction of the female form in the 20th century.
So instead, I encouraged that student to reach out and ask that question to a representative of a nonprofit who had come to speak to our class about that very same issue.
This philosophy led him to run for the city’s Board of Supervisors as the representative for his own district, which included the heart of American gay culture, the Castro.
This is a representative patient who, at the time, was 73, told he needed to have a bypass, decided to do this instead.
A Third Pole Council would consist of all eight countries located in the region as member countries, as equal member countries, and could also include representative organizations and other countries who have vested interests in the region as non-voting members.
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