The phrase "a fair cross section of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a representative sample or group that reflects the diversity or characteristics of a larger population.
Example: "The survey aimed to include a fair cross section of the community to ensure that all voices were heard."
Alternatives: "a representative sample of" or "a diverse selection of".
But the models sent to us by scope manufacturers represent a fair cross-section of the market, especially in the high-end categories.
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".
In addition to Gyorgy Ligeti, he champions the fierce complexities of Brian Ferneyhough, the streetwise urban chic of Mark-Anthony Turnage and the analytical sobriety of Helmut Lachenmann: a fair cross-section of the contemporary avant-garde.
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.
The Court had come the closest to articulating a "fair cross-section of the community" doctrine in Smith v.
Also, Congress passed the 1957 Civil Rights Act giving most citizens the right to serve on juries in federal court cases, along with the Federal Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968, which insisted that jury panels come from a fair cross-section of the community.
But a federal judge shut down their request this week, ruling that selecting jurors from an area where Donald Trump won by nearly 28 points in the 2016 presidential contest ― instead of an area where he won by almost 55 points ― would still allow the defendants to be tried before a jury that reflected a "fair cross-section of the community".
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.
