This, for many, represents a behaviour deeply embedded and consequently not easily removed.
Many represent a pittance relative to the government's $3.5 trillion annual budget, but the budgetary minutiae served to dramatize the administration's green-eyeshades approach.
But unless there is a display of outstanding exuberance in the remaining weeks of 2015 – and that seems highly unlikely – the 12 months will, for many, represent a bitter disappointment.
"Most of those currently in detention do not represent a serious [or any] risk to the public, and many represent a very low risk of noncompliance because of their strong domestic links to the UK," says Shaw, suggesting that a combination of tagging, residence and reporting restrictions, and promoting voluntary returns could be used instead.
However, she sits on numerous boards, some say too many, representing a wide range of companies and Mr Motlanthe's allies worry that her business dealings could tarnish his reputation.
Although some patients who are prone to violent episodes may be well known to the psychiatric services, many represent a considerable problem for the team faced with the challenge of initiating treatment before any firm diagnosis is possible.
But spectator like them are the ones who won't show up, a dollar...to many represent an impossible sum, to others the price of a movie plus refreshments.
He accepts that many "represent a reality the author experienced and remembered".
He was perhaps not the legend that his mother was, but to many he represented a certain kind of stubborn belief that good newspapering was its own end.
This happened in comparison e-commerce, for example, Buscapé for many years represented a large share of the domestic e-commerce.
