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Unlike most other characters in stratified fantasy worlds, dealers interact across a wide cross-section of society — from the poor to the wealthy, criminals as well as the establishment.

Drugs and rock n’ roll « 2009

I think it helps to prevent the society from becoming too stratified, which is a good thing.

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It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of Tierra del Fuego, one has cliffs composed of matter that may be called stratified alluvium, which front similar ones on the opposite side of the channel, — while the other is exclusively bordered by old crystalline rocks; in the former, called Navarin

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of Tierra del Fuego, one has cliffs composed of matter that may be called stratified alluvium, which front similar ones on the opposite side of the channel, — while the other is exclusively bordered by old crystalline rocks; in the former, called Navarin

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

These sediments were afterwards converted into the first rocks of the so-called stratified or sedimentary series, as contrasted with the crystalline or plutonic rocks like the original mass of the earth and the kinds forced to the surface by volcanic eruptions.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Mounds made in this manner are called stratified mounds, and all altar mounds are probably of this kind.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

The specific gravity of the entire Earth is 5.5 on the scale of water as one, whereas the density of the stratified rocks averages only 2.75; that is, the stratified rocks have but one half the density of the Earth as a whole.

Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

The sample was randomly selected using a process called stratified sample with replacements, where the randomised sample is proportionate to the population on a number of sampling stratum, key characteristics thought to be important in the heterogeneity of the sample as a whole, resulting in relatively homogenous groups when separated out.

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If medical care is socially stratified, that is we do not all get the same care and some of us get no care at all, if the cost of medical care is unregulated such that more and more of us get no care at all, and the sicker we get, the more we need care and the less we can afford that care, if good medical care is tied to insurance, and affordable insurance to employment, what does that mean for me and my loved ones?

V.A. Fails to Diagnose and Treat Vets to Save Money: Implications for Health Care Reform? 2009

Other types of sampling, such as stratified random or systematic may be more appropriate.

1. Unrestricted Random Sampling 1998