Sentence examples for representative. from inspiring English sources

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representative.

noun

One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.

  • I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.

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We know that acts of extremism are not representative of Islam, but we need to show what is.

Results have been weighted to nationally representative criteria.

When Liberal Democrat thoughts do turn to a new leader after the next general election, Chris Huhne, who finished second to Campbell in this year's contest, or a representative of he younger generation like Nick Clegg will inherit his crown.

The Liberal Democrats no longer have a single woman representative among their eight remaining MPs.

Related: Hands across the divide: Cypriots go where their politicians fear to tread Eide, a former Norwegian foreign minister who is the UN secretary general's special representative, says he does not expect Friday's meeting, the first since talks were stalled last October, to go beyond a "general exchange of views".

Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the greatest temptation to borrow the moral authority of the Newtown families.

"Of course, Owen goes with our best wishes," said Easterby before adding: "We'd like to be clear that we had discussed a new contract with him, and made his representative fully aware of our willingness to discuss securing his future as a rugby professional with us.

"Intolerance of corruption is essential to the survival of our representative democracy and way of life," he said.

She was US representative to the UN General Assembly during late 1969 and went on to hold two US ambassador positions - as ambassador to Ghana from 1974-77 (under Gerald Ford) and to the then Czechoslovakia under George HW Bush from 1989-92.

The Ukip leader said his party is more representative than the others and immigrants from outside the EU such as engineers from New Zealand face discrimination compared with low-skilled EU immigrants.

An American couple cleared by a Qatari appeals court of wrongdoing in the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter but blocked from leaving the country held out hope on Monday that they would soon be allowed to leave the tiny Gulf nation, as a family representative blasted a continued travel ban against them as "institutional kidnapping".

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