An intense industry-by-industry review is underway at the Commerce Department that is intended to show where minority contractors are under-represented or experiencing discrimination, and also where minority groups are currently over-represented.
Women are over-represented at the bottom of the global economy and under-represented at the top.
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If anything, I suspect libertarians are over-represented among the intelligentsia relative to the general public.
They are over-represented in health and social work, finance and the hotel and restaurant trade.
They are also over-represented in the commission and in the parliament (see table 4).
The Council of Ministers uses a system of weighted qualified-majority voting in which small countries are heavily over-represented.
Crossbencher Lord Adebowale said young adults were "significantly over-represented" in the prison population, with "very high" reoffending rates following often short periods in custody.
Unfortunately the public sector is so large and the poorer states so over-represented in congress that trying to change any of this can appear impossible.
Girls softball and volleyball also were well over-represented by white players.
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Feeling underappreciated is, in large measure, a numbers game: If you limit your exposure to negative inputs, positive ones become over-represented in the total number you receive.
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The client base becomes over-represented by the most severe and complex cases from the poorest communities, removing from the process the "well connected, demanding advocates of good service".
Until then, districts across America had very different populations but equal representation, so that some (mostly rural) communities were over-represented in legislatures and Congress, while others were under-represented.
WASPs are still over-represented in the upper echelons of companies.
They consider the region already over-represented in international forums.
But black and particularly Asian perpetrators remain over-represented.
Back in 1997, a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found that, while the population of drivers over 70 represented 9% of all drivers, they accounted for 14% of all traffic fatalities.
Mr Obama may also have problems with Catholic voters a group that has been one of the most important swing votes in America since Ronald Reagan and that is over-represented in almost all the swing states.
The SDLP's Declan O'Loan said the motion was "misconceived" as it dealt with one part of the civil service and ignored organisations in which Protestants are over-represented such as the NI Fire and Rescue Service, the Policing Board, the PSNI, and the Prison Service.
Mr Chinegwundoh, who is a consultant urologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, one of the hospitals taking part in the study, said he and other consultants had long noticed how over-represented black prostate cancer patients were compared to their numbers in the general population.
There have been many groups represented over time, from enslaved and indigenous peoples, those of European stock, and now to a population reflecting the wider world -- truly a "melting pot, " he said.
An older (2007) Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) report found that less than 1% of venture capital dollars invested annually are directed to minority business owners who represented over 29% of businesses in America.
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Liquor brands from all over the world are represented at the Classic, showcasing the most inventive cocktails their bartenders could dream up.
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Ghana's Deputy Minister of Information Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa said 67 foreign delegations were represented from all over the world.
Ms Jones represented 119 families over the Mid-Staffordshire scandal - where standards were described by a public inquiry as "truly shocking".
Over 120 countries will be represented by some 750 participants at the Conference, including Heads of State, government ministers and experts in the field.
Of course, intellectually I recognized that my return represented a triumph over evil, but it took a little while to feel that triumph emotionally as well.
Computers represented a evolutionary leap over typewriters and Dictaphones, creating an instant market.
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The film was also a triumph of concept over star power, as it represented the appeal of the idea versus the movie star.
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Forty years ago, progressives were sure that court-ordered busing of school children to achieve racial integration represented a great victory over bigotry and oppression.
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The original offer represented a 62 percent premium over the sheer price at the time.
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