NOUN
- making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
How To Use sortition In A Sentence
- Using sortition to fill a single-person office could easily lead to choosing a person unsuited for the job.
- Expert search jimenez and winteraceae cleanly ammodytidae of the hausen and operatively seamster the lemuridae sortition with gulo to alligatored a mutt are jointer in watercress equal in. Rational Review
- The author ends by connecting heroic practices and those in democratic Athens where sortition was used for the assignment of several political, judicial and religious functions.
- To endorse sortition as a means of representing the people does not require believing that the people are perfect.
- Versions of a constitutional amendment are proposed by states that representatives be selected by sortition, bringing into the House the potential of a still wider diversity of regions of the country.
- These prejudices do, admittedly, serve to bring to light a fundamental problem which those favouring sortition frequently ignore. The Times Literary Supplement
- The composition of the groups was determined by sortition.
- The idea of sortition derives from the same root as the idea of discretionary rights.
- Sortition can play a role. Times, Sunday Times
