Seven parties are represented in the cabinet, and the opposition has a mere 91 representatives out of 513 in the lower house.
From these three overlapping lives, Mr. Bock constructs an elegant, unnerving novel that illuminates the personal consequences of the war, transforming characters who might easily have been mere symbols or representative types into keenly observed individuals: people indelibly shaped, in anomalous ways, by their losses and their grief.
But beyond the cluelessness of the LACMTA executive's suggestion, the mere idea that a representative of one of the richest transit agencies in the country would so cheerily offer up a private, profit-driven company as a solution for public transportation goes to show that Metro just doesn't get the concept of "public transportation".
Perhaps your real complaint is that senators and representatives are mere puppets in the hands of their staffs, although Senator Rand Paul and Speaker John Boehner do not seem to fit that role.
But the march's leaders say the president's representatives paid mere lip service to their concerns the same complaint Mr Morales made about many of his predecessors' development projects.
The elected member should be a representative, not a mere delegate pledged to obey undeviatingly the wishes of his constituents.
Congressional representatives are not mere instruments through which the policy preferences of their constituents are aggregated and submitted to the legislative body.
He then dismayed Protestants by signing off on a document that relegated their churches to mere "ecclesial communities"; outraged indigenous representatives in Latin America by insisting that evangelisation in the New World did not represent "the imposition of a foreign culture"; and angered Jews by setting the controversial wartime pope, Pius XII, on the road to beatification.
The Senate race here, a long, expensive, nail-biting affair that put this state squarely in the national spotlight, wound up this morning with Senator Tim Johnson, the Democratic incumbent, leading his opponent, Representative John Thune, by a mere 527 votes.
In the sampled districts, a mere 23% of People's Council representative are female at district level and 27% at the commune level.
