representative assembly

collocation in English

meaningsofrepresentativeandassembly

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representative
adjective
uk
/ˌrep.rɪˈzen.tə.tɪv/us
/ˌrep.rɪˈzen.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
typical of, or the same as, others in a larger group of people ...
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assembly
noun
uk
/əˈsem.bli/us
/əˈsem.bli/
a group of people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of ...
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(Definition ofrepresentativeandassemblyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the absence of anyrepresentativeassembly, detailed reporting of domestic politics was totally dependent on ministerial goodwill.
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This goal had been completed with the abolition of the three estates and the creation of a unitary and sovereignrepresentativeassembly.
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But it seems to me it was a fatal error, though historically probably inevitable, to entrust these two distinct tasks to the samerepresentativeassembly.
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But in circumstances of immoderate diversity, that requires the physical presence of too many people for therepresentativeassemblyto remain a genuinely deliberative one.
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The reason it is important to have individuals from different groups in society personally present in arepresentativeassemblyis so that they can 'speak for themselves'.
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The nation's mostrepresentativeassemblyis thus also the most remote from the public: this remoteness could be diminished without loss of dignity.
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We propose a system that has a morerepresentativeassemblymember; his system has a less representative one.
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I understand that the first elections for arepresentativeassemblywill be held next year.
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I am not suggesting that it was arepresentativeassembly; it was not.
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The first fallacy is that we are really and truly arepresentativeassembly.
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Where else are they to look but to thisrepresentativeassembly?
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I fail to see how it would be possible in any circumstances to find a morerepresentativeassemblyanywhere.
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It is voting for a delegate to sit in arepresentativeassembly.
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Above all, this is supposed to be and always has been arepresentativeassembly.
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Norepresentativeassemblycould have been more forbearing in the circumstances.
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We see from experience the terrible difficulties that are involved as soon as we have a series of groups in arepresentativeassembly.
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There could be the appointment of a chief executive by arepresentativeassembly.
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What arepresentativeassemblycan do is similarly to weigh and to modify and to consider the final constitution presented to it.
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