Sentence examples for proportionate representation of from inspiring English sources

The State Legislature ranks forty-second in gender parity, behind far less liberal states — among them Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi — and forty-fourth in proportionate representation of minorities.

But there was, the Badger told his audience, every indication that, one day, a majority - or, at least, a proportionate representation of the electorate - might see sense and turn to the stripped-down, "solution-based", ideology-free Lib Dems.

""The assumption behind the Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund is that there has been discrimination if there is not proportionate representation of any of the above groups in leadership roles," he told The Daily Telegraph.

He took a more oblique approach that attacked the law school program not so much for its premise as for how it works in practice, dismissing it as "a carefully managed program designed to ensure proportionate representation of applicants from selected minority groups".

If the numbers game was played the other way round, with the focus on the grossly disproportionate number of men, then the way would be cleared for a much more proportionate representation of women and men, of every class and ethnicity.

The rationale for this stratification was to ensure a proportionate representation of male and female farmers.

(Iran has proportionate representation for its Jewish, major Christian, and Zoroastrian communities).

An ecologic community may be characterized by available resources, the number of species and their proportionate representation, genetic diversity, health status, and total number and mass of animals.

The delegates had been debating the manner of electing a President, wrangling over the weighty matters of the Electoral College and proportionate representation.

They played together for over 20 years and at the time selection of the national team was commonly arranged to ensure proportionate representation from the Greek, Turkish and small Armenian community (for an account of that time, see this insideworldfootball.com piece).

For none of the six morphological classes did the proportionate representation in the population differ significantly among galls (e.g. for soldier proportion, F16,34 = 0.28, P = 0.996).