Sentences with phrase «unrepresentative group»

Unless a quorum is required for the passage of legislation, leaders can pass legislation with only an unrepresentative group in attendance.

«The purpose of a quorum is to prevent an unrepresentative group from taking action in the name of the organization,» says «Robert's Rules of Order» (as translated into plain English in the 19970 by Doris Zimmerman, a professionally registered parliamentarian).

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.

Brown acknowledges that she surveyed an unrepresentative group of middle - class, mostly white Midwesterners.

Not exact matches

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»?

Having not seen anything by the Otolith Group before, I can only go on their room in the Turner show, so this may be fairly unrepresentative of what they do.