Investors, on the other hand, want and need the most representative and dynamic measures possible.
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The government landed on the Muslim Council of Britain as the most representative organisation it could find.
The most representative landscape features are a number of large depressions, the Tiankengs, with nearly vertical walls and a depth and diameter typically more than 100 m each.
Perhaps one of the most representative companies of the global economies, Caterpillar posted fourth quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, more than quadrupling profits and forecasting a better 2011 on continued demand from emerging markets and continued upward momentum in commodity prices.
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To identify popular and relevant questions, Twitter is developing a number of ways to identify the most common and representative questions.
He is the architect of the House Republican plan to rein in federal spending and reshape the Medicare program, making him a leading representative of the most fiscally conservative lawmakers.
To date, the attackers' most outspoken representative has been Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin.
The most prominent, perhaps, was Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, who called it dangerous to Israel.
Some of the most thoughtful comments came from a representative of one of the worst offenders, Bill Spence of Shell Oil.
That would leave Mr Lopez as the left's most powerful representative, charged with rejuvenating his party as well as Mexico's capital.
According to a poll by Moscow-based Levada Center, nearly a third of Russian voters say that the United Russia party is most representative of their political interests.
They get feeds of her blog posts on the conservative Town Hall Web site and of her congressional blog (which was updated regularly over the August recess, when most representative's pages stayed frozen in time).
Finally, I have learned to make the most of our visits to the floor of the House of Representative (two or three times a day for votes) and am usually trying to get co-sponsors on bills or to circulate letters.
The bonds used in the representative sample tend to be the largest and most liquid in the index.
The fact is that the Gallup poll has come out today saying that most of the American people do not want their representative to raise the debt ceiling.
The most far-reaching vote any representative will cast this year will take place next week.
Finally, the frequent use of referendums can actually undermine democracy by encouraging elected legislators to sidestep difficult issues, thus damaging the prestige and authority of representative institutions, which must continue to perform most of the business of government even if referendums are used frequently.
Most excitingly of all, the representative riches of this legacy have finally been gathered on one label.
Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan, said Thursday's election will be the most difficult he has encountered in his life.
The whole point of representative democracy, of the kind practised for centuries at Westminster and in most Western democracies, is that it acts as a brake on "wild and irrational decisions", he reasoned.
The bill, from Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) targets the EPA, and most of the coverage has focused on its attempt to stop the agency from setting greenhouse gas standards.
The most important thing is that there should be a representative government in Afghanistan that we can then support.
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Mr. CLEMONS: Representative Tom Tancredo has, perhaps, the most strident position of the Republican candidates on immigration.
The survey's most striking finding comes from its nationally representative sample of teachers.
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Mr Galsworthy spent most of the last decade there working as chief sales representative for Fuller's, a big, London-based brewer.
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Representative BILL DELAHUNT (Democrat, Massachusetts): The most consequential decision that this country will make in the course of this year.
Representative Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, has the most ambitious plan.
Gil Shattuck, a state representative in the New Hampshire House, said he has met most of the candidates.
Tunisia, for example, now seems the most likely candidate to make a successful transition from authoritarian rule to truly representative government.
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The expectation is that, because Vermont is such a strongly Democratic state, leaving the Republican Party probably won't hurt him all that much back in his home state--at least that's what most people familiar with Vermont politics believe, including, by the way Representative Bernie Sanders, who is Vermont's independent member of the House of Represenatives.
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