6 sentences with 'representative'
Example sentences and phrases with the word representative and other words derived from it.
• « In 1962 he was a candidate for representative to the Congress of his country, and even thought of giving up his career as a writer if he was elected. »
• « A representative told us that timely diagnosis and modern treatments had raised the life expectancy of most sufferers to more than 20 years. »
• « Indeed, one of the earliest terms for "king" was ensis, meaning the representative of the god who "really" ruled the city. »
• « Cyrus II was the living representative of a supreme royal line of descent and an ensis in the Mesopotamian sense: the agent of the patron god on earth. »
• « Different forms of representative bodies of the nobility, the church and (typically) the cities had the right to approve new taxes; »
• « Some of the characteristics that historians often associate with modernity are representative governments, capitalist economies and (relatively, in the case of early modern states) religious toleration. All these things first converged in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. »