fair representation

collocation in English

meaningsoffairandrepresentation

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fair
adjective
uk
/feər/us
/fer/
treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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representation
noun
uk
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/
a person or organization that speaks, acts, or is present officially for ...
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(Definition offairandrepresentationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Is it afairrepresentationof the authors' perspectives?
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But the reasons for selecting those policies will be different, depending on whether one focuses on fair reward orfairrepresentation.
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We believe that our sample of years constitutes afairrepresentationof state-local action over this period.
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Regarding cultural differences and healthcare inequalities, institutions often should change extensively, including rearrangements that eliminate inequitable power relationships and insurefairrepresentationof those served.
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Having discussed two criteria of fair reward, let me now consider the viewpoint offairrepresentation.
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By implication, at the local level an extension of the franchise was no longer necessary to achieve afairrepresentation.
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This may be afairrepresentationof recent events.
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This cannot be analysed as afairrepresentationof singing that went on in schools as this question asks only what the respondents remember, not what actually went on.
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Not bad for a new discipline, but we would prefer afairrepresentationof women in the highest echelons in all discipline, not just women's studies.
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Therefore, we also specifically targeted women at market places, young people at local meeting spots, and public and private employees at their workplaces, in an effort to attainfairrepresentation.
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There will be an electoral system to givefairrepresentation.
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I am not prepard to accept the statement in the last part of the question as afairrepresentationof the situation.
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I agreed that other groups had to be included in order to achievefairrepresentation.
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I do not think he gavefairrepresentationto my remarks.
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Legal aid is an essential for proper andfairrepresentationto ensure that justice is done.
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If the urban councils are to pay the money, they ought to have theirfairrepresentationon the board.
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In my view, the community is properly served by the police service and other public services by afairrepresentationby all ethnic communities.
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Moreover, such a method of representation should allowfairrepresentationlocally.
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We need a system which will secure, as it has secured in other countries,fairrepresentationfor each considerable body of opinion.
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