Sentence examples for a fair cross section from inspiring English sources

The FTSE 100 embraces a fair cross section of world shares.

You don't notice it until you bump into it; it looms over the little alleyways like a big cargo ship in a small fishing village, with porters trundling chairs, tables and bric-a-brac in and out of its loading bays as a fair cross section of Parisian society 5,000 people a day streams through its front doors and up and down its escalators.

While a defendant is entitled to a fair cross section in the venire, the defendant is not guaranteed a fair cross section in the actual grand jury or petit jury.

Further, the defendant is entitled to a jury pool that represents a "fair cross section" of the community.

The equal protection clauses has at least three applications relevant to criminal proceedings: a prohibition on selective prosecution on invidious bases, a requirement that jury pools and venires represent a "fair cross section" of the community, and a prohibition on the discriminatory use of jury peremptory challenges.

In order to prove a "fair cross section" violation, the defendant must show that (1) a "distinctive" (i.e., cognizable) group (2) is not represented fairly and reasonably in the jury pool in proportion to the community (3) due to systematic exclusion.

Yet ever since the days when only white, male property holders were eligible for service on juries, we have tried to make sure our juries reflect a fair cross-section of the community.

He said that the jury of four men and four women "represented a fair cross-section of the community," and that "they were outraged at both the injury inflicted and the indifference and arrogance of the police".

The gunshop owner insisted he found nothing suspicious about the clean-cut college boy.Cho's victims and he injured as many as he killed were a fair cross-section of Virginia Tech.

So, if these six were a fair cross-section, in the last agony of the U. S. the highways will be clogged with sightseers, the telephone wires jammed with details of hastily rearranged weddings, and reservations to Bermuda booked solid... View Article John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century.

Organisers stressed that the conference was never intended to be fully democratic, and was certainly no substitute for the general election scheduled for January.But still, the throng of clerics, tribal leaders, professionals, ex-army officers, and veiled and unveiled women at the conference looked a fair cross-section of Iraq.