Sentence examples for serious representatives of from inspiring English sources

My trip enabled me to mix with, talk to, listen to serious representatives of the Malian musical culture that is now in the process of being destroyed.

But they have also been at pains - most obviously in TV news bulletins and current affairs programmes - to treat them as serious representatives of people they like to refer to as disenfranchised and disempowered.

To narrowly secure confirmation, Friedman promised the Senate to put aside his personal views and act as a serious representative of US interests and policy.

Margaret Hodge, the chair of the committee, described him as not being a "serious" representative for Amazon to put before her committee.

Software piracy in China isn't going away anytime soon, but the effort to fight it looks as if it got a bit — just a bit — more serious, according to representatives of one of the industry's main lobbying groups.

Diller and Scofidio are best known for works that appear to straddle architecture and conceptual art, and they seemed less like serious candidates than like token representatives of the avant-garde, the sort of architects who get put on search lists so that the boards of large cultural institutions don't appear to be out of touch.

City of London police, along with representatives of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), raided a property and led away a 33-year-old multimillionaire former derivatives trader – whose cerebral, yet socially awkward, demeanour had prompted colleagues to nickname him after Dustin Hoffman's 1988 autistic film character, Rain Man.

On MSNBC's Morning Joe chat show, BBC World News America presenter Katty Kay emphasised that Solo's case, while serious, was not representative of the norm.

Be Professional Your Facebook page should look serious and be representative of your brand.

Surely the national media wouldn't know about something as serious as this before the elected representatives of the areas involved.

At a joint news conference after the meeting, Mr. Hu said the representatives of the Dalai Lama had been "conscientious and serious" during talks so far.