Sentence examples for against representation from inspiring English sources

Populists are not against representation; they think current elites misrepresent the people.

Despite the Muslim prohibition against representation of living things, richly patterned fabrics were made in Islamic lands.

About 80percentt of eligible voters cast ballots, with 919 voting against representation by CGSU/AFT/NYSUT, 856 voting for representation by CGSU/AFT/NYSUT, and 81 ballots unresolved (challenged) based on questions of voter eligibility.

Of the 1,089 ballots cast, 691 voted against representation ("NO") by SEIU and 398 for representation by SEIU ("YES").

The tea parties were all over the place in their complaints--they could not even agree about whether they were protesting taxation against representation or not.

The tea parties were all over the place in their complaints they could not even agree about whether they were protesting taxation against representation or not.

And if Adorno intended a warning against representations of the Holocaust, it has been more quoted than heeded.

Arguably, Muslims, with their (ambiguous) prohibition against representations of Muhammad, are a special case, but it's not only Muslims who get upset about caricatures.

Against representations of modern surfing as a sport of and for white bourgeois men, essays by Glen Thompson and Belinda Wheaton illustrate how surfers who were neither white nor male in apartheid South Africa and African American Los Angeles, respectively—have been actively involved, albeit marginalized, by the mainstream of surf culture.

Perhaps the avoidance of "real" art is linked to this general pattern of thought that likely goes back to biblical injunctions against representations of the divinity (Exodus 20 4; though God is frequently depicted in diagrams, e.g., 86, 121, 179, 302).

The game was banned in Germany, where MKII was put in the index by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (BPjM) and all versions of the game except for the Game Boy version were subjected to being confiscated from the nation's market for violating the German Penal Code by showing excessive violence and cruel acts against representations of human beings.