"representative claim" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a statement that is meant to stand in for the general sentiment or opinion of a person or group. For example, "The senator made a representative claim that all taxes should be lowered."
"Where plaintiffs bring a PAGA representative claim, they take on a special responsibility to their fellow aggrieved workers who are effectively bound by any judgement," Chen wrote.
Ben Patrick, legal officer for Unison, said allowing single groups as one representative claim could speed up cases that routinely take up to 10 years.
In a sense, they try to make the unified people in whose name they had been speaking all along a reality on the ground: by silencing or discrediting those who refuse their representative claim (and, sometimes, by giving them every incentive to exit the country and thereby to separate themselves from the pure people; 500,000 Hungarians have left in recent years).
This amount will be used as a representative claim amount in guiding our construction of comparative Normal and Lomax examples.
A representative claim of this sort can be found in Susan Haack's Evidence and Inquiry, "... the results from the sciences of cognition may be relevant to, and may be legitimately used in the resolution of traditional epistemological problems" (Haack, 1993: 1993.
Colleague Gabriel Magner, another union representative, claimed it was a form of discrimination.
The SPUC representative claimed that after abortion some women experienced trauma which was "a form of post-traumatic stress disorder".
In order to spell out this latter integrative function of political representation as a creative practice, the notion of representative claims-making will be introduced.
A US representative claimed continued vetoing could lead America – and other like-minded countries – to bypass the institution entirely, the Guardian reported.
The practice of representative claims-making can then be analysed, first of all, as a way of distributing the social capital of the actors and institutions that populate the European field of civil society activism.
Secondly, the practice of representative claims-making can be analysed as a way of building new forms of cultural and symbolic capital of civil society that are needed to occupy the new transnational positions that are made available by European integration.
