Mr. Ford, whose likely nomination for the Cairo post was reported last week by the online publication Al-Monitor, has also served as ambassador to Algeria and did multiple tours in Iraq, including one as a representative of the American occupation authority in Najaf, where he was briefly detained at gunpoint in 2003 by the Badr Corps militia.
For example, Jackson (2007) performed content analysis of advertisements from national and local newspapers with a high circulation, and the sample was chosen to be representative of the range of occupations in the occupational sectors.
M. HERZOG: This system of representatives with the occupation authorities, was that approved of by Defendant Speer?
Also at the meeting was a representative of the General Government, the Polish occupation administration, whose territory included more than 2 million Jews.
"We all know that it shouldn't be there," noted John Sawers, Britain's top civilian representative in the occupation authority.
He served as a representative of the mujahedeen during the Soviet occupation and the rule of the Taliban, but it remains unclear how easily he will be able to calm the city.
Moreover the occupations represented were diverse and representative of the regional workforce.
Tonight the leaders of the former Iraqi opposition met in a Baghdad hotel to ventilate concerns that the Governing Council is already facing difficulties in projecting an image that is both independent of the occupation authority and representative of the Iraqi people.
The enquirers represent a selected group of health care professionals, and may not be representative of the general population of their respective occupations.
In empirical social sciences, including sociology, political science and criminal justice, current trends towards increasing the validity of causal inferences are rooted in Roy's problem of explaining why the workers observed in an occupation are not representative of the population as a whole.
