A jury is supposed to represent a defendant's peers, yet juries are getting less and less representative of society.
They are even less representative of the population than the Anglicans.
But schools like Harvard and Yale are becoming ever less representative of the whole as more young Americans attend college.
To make them too interesting, I suppose, would make them less representative of the self-delusion and listlessness that are, apparently, hallmarks of the modern condition.
GTAs are, as a group, drawn from a fairly narrow demographic, and financial hardship is likely to make them even less representative of wider society.
They got the word minutes after they outlasted Minnesota, 93-89, in a game that was more or less representative of the midwinter trek to the playoffs.
Dr Isaac's views are less representative of government policy than of a pervasive attitude among Tanzania's political classes that would blame poor people for their poverty.
To require that map makers completely ignore race would make districts less representative of a minority community's interests, and therefore less broadly democratic.
And the film's implications extend far beyond the boundaries of a particular nation, which is taken as more or less representative of the planet as a whole.
All of a sudden the Labour front-bench team looks less diverse, and less representative of modern Britain in all its heterogeneity.
After all, the council has at least one strong point in its favour: it cannot be any less representative of Iraq than its dreadful predecessor was.
