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Another 1931 piece by Rivera offers a startling cross section of a divided city: the towering skyline, the transit system, sleeping homeless workers and the well-heeled depositing their jewels at a subterranean bank vault.

The U.S. government turned out to be spying on a startling cross-section of people — including but certainly not limited to its own citizens and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"I wanted a real cross section of men who dance.

It affects a wide cross section of people in Peckham.

I wanted a nice cross section of folks.

And if one thing is clear, veterans represent a diverse cross section of America.

This raises questions about whether the participants represent a valid cross section of public opinion.

A bund cross section of 1.38 square metres is assumed.

But trains allow you time to meet a cross section of your fellow passengers, a cross section which, hopefully, reflects local society.

Yet few professional groups have been more stereotyped than stewardesses, and the playful, startling photographs in this book do little to counter the notion that rather than representing a cross section of the population, female flight attendants are all pretty, perky fashion plates.

A cross section of that tree was placed in a Nevada casino".