(n.) A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(3) "I've got the greatest idea of how to raise money for the campaign," he told David Dreier, now a California congressman.
(4) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(6) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(7) Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
(8) Testifying before the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia, said the court's ruling had left him devastated.
(9) Thursday 18 October • Abortion is never medically necessary: Representative Joe Walsh (GOP congressman from Illinois) says that abortion can never save a women's life: "There is no such exception [for life of the mother].
(10) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(11) On Tuesday morning, congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a veteran Wisconsin Republican and author of the Patriot Act, introduced his long-awaited USA Freedom Act, that would stop the NSA’s bulk domestic phone records collection.
(12) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
(13) Something’s not right when Potus is putting our country on a list with bad hombres Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua,” congressman Carlos Curbelo, of south Florida, wrote on Twitter.
(14) On his return to the GOP, he faced a primary challenge from John E Sununu, a three-term congressman whose father John H Sununu was a former governor of New Hampshire.
(15) Mike Coffman, a re-elected Republican congressman, told the Guardian: "I need to see what other states are doing but clearly if there is a sentiment that is moving nationally to legalise marijuana, then I certainly respect the decisions by the states.
(16) The congressman also denounced the treasury investigation of payments to speakers in support of the MEK.
(17) One Georgia Congressman wants to introduce real federal oversight , but it’s currently very difficult to know exactly which police department has what, how much they paid for it or what they use it for.
(18) My arrival in El Paso, a couple of hundred miles upstream from Presidio, coincided with that of Wisconsin Republican congressman James Sensenbrenner.
(19) Last week, a report by the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment, which included two former senior US generals, and a Republican former congressman and lawyer, Asa Hutchinson, who served as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency from 2001 before being appointed in January 2003 as Undersecretary in the biggest division of the Department of Homeland Security, described the practice of torture by the US administration as "indisputable".
(20) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
Representative
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(4) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(7) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(8) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(9) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(10) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(11) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(14) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(15) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(16) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(17) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(18) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(19) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(20) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)