This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone is acting as a representative on behalf of someone else. For example: "I was asked to be a representative of the company and negotiate the contract."
I don't consider myself to be a representative of my people.
By N.C.A.A. rules, Yahoo reported, Nochimson would be a representative of the college's athletic interests.
Unlike Thomas, Sotomayor has wanted to be a representative of a group.
"The next director general has to be a representative of the whole membership," he said.
One nonvoting member shall be a representative of the digital licensee coordinator, provided that a digital licensee coordinator has been designated pursuant to paragraph (5)(B).
One nonvoting member shall be a representative of a nationally recognized nonprofit trade association whose primary mission is advocacy on behalf of songwriters in the United States.
Five members shall be selected from the general public, of which at least one shall be a representative of organized labor.
I even got to be a representative of the ALDE group in a meeting with top-level researchers from UNICEF, Amnesty International, and other NGOs.
Ung from the ung-gene later proved to be a representative of a highly conserved family of UDGs present in most living organisms examined (Olsen et al., 1989).
"Because if you want to be a representative of the people, in a republic-type government, then obviously you have to represent what they feel".
Sooner or later, just about every writer of non-Western background finds himself taken to be a representative of, or spokesperson for, his community, nation, race, or religion.
