Sentences with word «unrepresentative»

Having studied biblical theology in graduate school (part of the time under a conservative Rabbi) and currently studying theology at the Pontificia Universita Gregorian in Rome as a seminarian, I regard Meir Soloveichik's biblical theology as unrepresentative of what the Hebrew Scriptures teach.

In S09 much of the predictive power was held by the over-represented cluster of correlated stations on the peninsula, which is the most unrepresentative sample of the greater continent that one could conceive of.

I hope that this attitude is as unrepresentative of readers of this journal as I suspect it is of the population at large.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

We should be careful, however, not to assume that Tory members are stranded so far to the ageing, white, authoritarian, eurosceptic right that they are completely unrepresentative of the party's voters.

Finally, Lisa Diamond's studies are controversial because she makes grand claims based on small surveys of university students drawn from women studies courses, a very unrepresentative sample.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

Some people have however suggested to purposefully vote on parties with no chance of going to the parliament, with the aim of showing how unrepresentative the parliament is.

Instead, he says the system is grossly unrepresentative of minorities, and this creates the troubling perception among non-white defendants of racial bias, real or imagined — the sense that things are generally stacked against people of colour who get in trouble with the law.

An unfair system doesn't just give us an unfair result, but unrepresentative government as well.

Members of all four parties are more likely to be male, older, middle - class, and white than the average Briton — but Tory members are even more unrepresentative than their counterparts in the other parties.

Paul Keating once memorably dismissed the Senate as unrepresentative swill.

As Lord Ashcroft's polling suggests, firebrand union leaders are almost entirely unrepresentative of their members.

The MP warned them that if they get it wrong this time the party will be saddled with unrepresentative MPs for a further 10 or 15 years.

This survey was wholly unrepresentative of British companies, since only 5 % export goods and services to the EU.

They show that by selecting unrepresentative data and using the same methodology, they can also estimate higher levels of climate sensitivity than the 3 C IPCC best estimate.

«This new provision makes the constitution unrepresentative of the whole society,» he said.

They argue that the kind of conceptualist artists the Turner has tended to champion are increasingly unrepresentative of what they call «real artists» struggling in obscure penury.

Even in the small, highly unrepresentative detail shown here, it outstrips online reproduction.

However, critics say this work has been based on unrepresentative subgroups, such as prevasectomy patients, from urban centers.

More to the point, few of these studies have yet to be replicated, and most of them rely on a handful of unrepresentative people (US undergrads) who are asked to undertake the kind of lab - controlled tasks that usually share a questionable (at best) relationship with real world activities.

These students are most likely unrepresentative; after all, they are engaging in behavior that is rare.

I have no reason to think that Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize - winning historian, is making unrepresentative selections.

May is asking us to respect factoids and unrepresentative evidence dressed up as fact, yet he assures us that it is the oil companies that are «misinforming the public about the science of climate change».

Another solution, of course, is to abolish jury trials altogether and focus attention on the seriously unrepresentative composition of the judiciary instead - but I digress.

A pretty sad looking unrepresentative lot with which to launch a new era.

For example, the study devotes considerable space to a couple of unrepresentative schools as if they were characteristic of all charters, thereby ignoring the extraordinary diversity of a new world still searching for its identity.

But getting 60 votes in the already - unrepresentative Senate is just an absurdly high bar.

The statement pointed out that MtGox was a bad and unrepresentative actor in a thriving new industry with hundreds of trustworthy and responsible companies.

That's especially true if investors choose unrepresentative trough - to - peak periods on which to evaluate investment performance, rather than the peak - to - peak comparisons which are relevant to long - term investors.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

They usually show people displaying eternal smiles, which are usually unrepresentative of the faces they really wore.

I berate your cartoons, which I find unrepresentative to the «whole» as your «vision» of the parts.

As the authors of the study acknowledge, their sample is small and almost certainly unrepresentative.

Consider the following example, which is by no means unrepresentative:

To assume community without building it, as often happens when unrepresentative denominational pronouncements get made, is lethal for the church and ineffective in politics.

Arguments from Treasury Wine Estates proponents such as Willibald Hajszan («Treasury Wines class action unrepresentative», AFR Letters, July 7), fail to acknowledge several issues in trying to discredit the current securities class action on foot against the global wine giant.

They put on a dominant performance and at the end everyone was stunned at the scoreline — it seemed impossibly unrepresentative of the actual match.

The last comment is somewhat unrepresentative of the majority but is very positive — and a key task is to understand how the experience of this group is so different from the others»?

This piece, written by the man who led the independent inquiry into last year's polling debacle which was released this week, suggested it was more about unrepresentative samples than it was to do with «shy Tories».

The UK's first - past - the - post, single - member constituency electoral system is about as proportionally unrepresentative as is democratically feasible.