Sentence examples for a system of representative from inspiring English sources

A system of representative government would surely legitimise rather than dismiss such a position.

What we call democracy is actually a system of representative government which leaves most big decisions to elected leaders.

It is interesting that many of these same principles – independent directors, a chair who is not the chief executive, a strong commitment to the oversight role of the board, transparency of action, and a strong commitment to ethics – are at the core of a structure combining effective public management with a system of representative democracy.

Beeman notes that "James Madison believed from the outset that the fight to create a system of representative government in which ultimate sovereignty resided in the people of the nation as a whole rather than in the states would depend on creating a national legislature based on the principle of proportional representation".

This was the prototype for Bentham's later ruminations on the benefits of the Public Opinion Tribunal in a system of representative democracy.

The events related in the report did indicate, however, how hard it is to fit our intelligence community into a system of representative democracy that demands openness, transparency and accountability.

This happens iff Ω (after correction by a null set) forms a system of representatives for the quotient of Rn by some subgroup, i.e., iff Ω is essentially a fundamental domain.

At Pentecost in 1220 the first general chapter of the order was held at Bologna, and a system of democratic representative government was devised.

A whistleblower warned that a system of safety representatives set up to underpin the integrity of North Sea oil and gas platforms following the 1988 disaster was being made a mockery of owing to an atmosphere of offshore bullying by some managers.

In 1935 a mathematician, M. Hall, Jr., of the United States, proved that a necessary and sufficient condition for S1, S2,…, Sn to possess a system of distinct representatives is that, for every k n, any k of the n subsets contain between them at least k distinct elements.

This theorem can be rephrased as follows: the collection (phantom {dot {i}!}{Z_{i}}_{i in N_{ell }}) has a system of distinct representatives if and only if the condition left bigcup_{i in M} Z_{i} right) cap Q neq emptyset holds for every set Q verifying (|overline {Q}| = |M|-1) (where (overline {Q}) denotes the complement of Q).