Sentence examples for representative of the generation from inspiring English sources

For another, researchers tend to work with samples, like college students, that are not representative of the generation at large.

South Koreans mostly approved, and over the past week have been paying a respectful goodbye to almost the last representative of the generation that, by hook or by crook, got the country through a testing period.

In Russia he was revered both as a writer and as a representative of the generation known as the Shestidesyatniki, the 1960s idealists who sought to break free of the brutality and lies of Stalin's rule during the brief thaw under Nikita S. Khrushchev.

In 1910 Desborough said, with misplaced optimism: "In the Games in London were assembled some 2,000 young men… representative of the generation into whose hands the destinies of most of the nations of the world are passing at this moment… and we hope that their meeting… may have a beneficial effect hereafter on the cause of international peace".

He has indicated that he favors reopening impeachment proceedings against a Supreme Court that is seen as loyal to Mr. Menem and has presented himself as a representative of the generation that was brutalized under the old military dictatorship and now wants justice.

But he was equally a typical representative of the generation of Tocqueville and Guizot that saw itself confronted with the question of how to stop the Revolution after the collapse of the Empire.

She was one of the few remaining representatives of the generation of activists who led the fight against apartheid.

"We are representatives of the generation born when the multi-party political system was introduced to Serbia," they say in the video, in which Beli rides a white horse and carries a scepter made from a curtain rod.

Randomisation from electronic residential telephone directory databases excluded all ex-directory numbers and thus was not as representative of the general population as number generation by the hundred-bank method.

But when the subject was his interior life, he was a characteristic representative of the Silent Generation, and the work was harder for him.

A representative of the fourth generation of the Quim family works behind the counter in a space about the size of a standard living room.