Sentences with phrase «unrepresentative of»

The fact remains that benchmark producers, Android engineers and enthusiasts see these mechanisms as unfair, unrepresentative of the user experience, a bit deceptive and, ultimately, a waste of resources that could have gone to another aspect of product development.

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

I suspect that what this does is to make the benchers» composition unrepresentative of the profession as a whole: older, more likely to be male, from smaller towns, dominated by litigators, rather than those with general practice backgrounds.

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

However, the statement that the provisions merely «implies» a link between nationality and EU citizenship is unrepresentative of the nature of this connection of Member State nationality as the the primary condition sine qua non for the acquisition of the status of EU citizenship.

Due to the amount of time that you are allowed to preregister to take the test, I was studying the scanned versions of practice tests purchased from the University bookstore, before receiving all of the available HTML tests from LSAC, and as a result I had actually encountered one of the tests before receiving the HTML version, thus the problem of information exposure made this test unrepresentative of actual performance, and I had even less ability to gauge my performance, and improve my LSAT writing skills.

This could leave huge cracks in the draft agreement, and it would return to the Geneva text (the only official text thus far) which was horrendously unbalanced and unrepresentative of the UNFCCC as a whole.

The Hockey stick and its derivatives still exert a powerful grip on them even though the paleos are completely unrepresentative of the real world climate we all live in.

Steven — The excerpt you quoted was unrepresentative of the entire article you linked to, which readers might want to visit for the full context.

Spots such as this often result in very pronounced «microclimates», which are quite unrepresentative of the actual climate of the surrounding area.

Not only do most people not live in white cube contemporary dream homes, such homes are unrepresentative of how the majority choose to live — even if many of us dream about it from time to time.

The autocorrelation of the «blade» segment of «hockey - stick» shaped proxies is significantly higher than the rest of the series, this biases their estimates of autocorrelation parameters because their model assumes a stationary autocorrelation structure, making their simulated series unrepresentative of most of the length of hockey - stick series, as can be seen in this graph of lag - 1 autocorrelation coefficients.

In 1999, Chris Smith, then culture secretary, said the nominations for the prize were «too narrow» and «unrepresentative of British art».

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.

Meanwhile, then culture minister Chris Smith spoke out against the prize for being «controversy for controversy's sake... too narrow and unrepresentative of British art».

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.

Citing several different business and civil codes the gist of the lawsuit is that Damion Perrine believes Gearbox and Sega falsely advertised the game to consumers using various gameplay demos and trailers that were unrepresentative of the final product, despite the fact that they were pitched to sound like they would indeed be representative of the final game.

Basically what you're advocating against is due diligence, and what you're advocating for is sales based on PR that's unrepresentative of the true experience you'll have.

Although some CMOs have been criticized for self - selecting students unrepresentative of the overall communities in which they live (Frankenberg and Siegel - Hawley 2013), Rocketship generally still serves populations similar to its surrounding public school districts.

However, as Corcoran and Baker - Smith write, the incoming ninth grade population at the three oldest and largest schools, Stuyvesant, the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical School, was wholly unrepresentative of the city at large — 22 percent were white, and 64 percent were Asian, while just 4 percent and 5 percent were African - American or Latino, respectively (Wong).

State - level academic performance data are either nonexistent prior to 1990 or, as in the case of the SAT, are unrepresentative of statewide student populations.

Although Kane does also cite some published studies authored by others, again, in support of VAMs, the studies Kane cites are primarily / only authored by econometricians (e.g., Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff) and, accordingly, largely unrepresentative of the larger literature surrounding VAMs.

L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik's has a new piece on California teacher pensions, and like his last one, it's extremely unrepresentative of California's actual teaching workforce.

Spending their school days with school leaders who appear to be unrepresentative of their views and with whom they appear to have little in common, may put BME students off a teaching career.

Much of the typical curriculum in schools is outdated, repetitious, and unrepresentative of the evolution of the field.

Instead, Tanne approaches these characters as people who are unrepresentative of anything or anyone other than themselves — in this moment and at this point in their lives.

It is also, unfortunately, wholly unrepresentative of the rest of the game's content, which offers few opportunities to take pictures and paltry rewards for those stubborn enough to do so.

(She dismissed the early log line, which had the two lead characters each seeking to lose her virginity, as being unrepresentative of Foner's script.

With Corbyn leading Labour, Farage has already made sounds about him being unrepresentative of a bulk of its core vote and how he hasn't been decisive on the EU issue.

The Lib Dems are «woefully» unrepresentative of modern Britain.

And Clegg, who thinks his party in the Commons is «woefully» unrepresentative of modern Britain, may adopt all - women shortlists after the election.

They are unaccountable and unrepresentative of our diverse, and largely non-religious, society and yet it is the millions of non-Anglican taxpayers who are paying for their expenses.

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

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.

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.

The participating hospitals came from a wide range of types and locations, so there is no reason to suppose that the results are unrepresentative of the region as a whole.

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»?

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

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

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.

The media have brought to public attention several cases in which Christian Science parents have been prosecuted for the deaths of their children while under spiritual treatment (cases, which the church argues are unrepresentative of its healing record).

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

Not exact matches

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.

He is representative in the content of his belief or unbelief, but he is unrepresentative in his expression of it.

The first is that the World Council of Churches is unrepresentative and, while quick to criticize the «First World», excuses abuses of human rights in the «Third World».

The criticism of Chris - tian broadcasters by others within the church was that they were using the inordinate power they had gained through the unrepresentative mass media to promote their own preferred and highly selective causes rather than to encourage the exercise of responsible representation.

Another way of looking at it is as an opinion poll using an unrepresentative sample, as the sample only includes people who place bets.

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

I could say about this finding - as well as the main finding of no differences between singles and couples in attachment issues - that the sample was unrepresentative (the singles were recruited by newspaper ads and the couples were recommended by the singles) and so we need to be cautious.