Although this approach did not ensure that the sample was representative, it did enhance its diversity and therefore strengthens the external validity of the study results.
Although the art is far from representative, it is evocative of its own process.
I couldn't say how representative it is.
If the Commons is not representative, it is nothing.
In discussing a fair selling price with a sales representative, it is indispensable.
And while it's pleasing to see a positive image of an older woman, representative it isn't.
The more representative it is of what people personally feel, the more satisfying and necessary its publication.
For a local representative, it hired George Ahmaogak, a tough-talking former borough mayor who used a take-it-or-leave-it approach with his fellow natives.
The poll was not perfectly representative: it was done in only 15 out of 48 sub-Saharan countries, and the pollsters understandably steered clear of war zones.
The second session (September December 1931) was attended by Mahatma Gandhi as the Congress representative; it failed to reach agreement, either constitutionally or on communal representation.
In a sense, Wal-Mart is the elected representative of tens of millions of hard-bargaining shoppers, and, like any representative, it serves only at their pleasure.
