Sentences with phrase «about ordinary families»

A powerful novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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«The Liberals watched for two years as the cost of housing skyrocketed out of reach for families, because they cared more about helping their developer friends than ordinary people.

I suspect that in India — as opposed to here in Canada — the Trudeau Family's effort to go full Bollywood will be viewed more kindly by ordinary citizens who hear about it, as an eccentric but friendly gesture, not the grave insult Conservative politicians and Canadian pundits are trying to spin it into.

In the course of our conversation I uttered some rather ordinary platitude about the family being the fundamental unit of society.

Remember: as with any diet, if you're doing it right, the rest of the family may never suspect that there's anything out of the ordinary about the meal.

By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence.

As noble as this might have been, it sent the message to ordinary middle income families that they were too well off (and perhaps too provincial) to worry about.

This enabled the Labour leader to move the national economic debate from dry discussions about deficits on to the impact of coalition policies on ordinary, hard - working families squeezed by rising prices.

It was self - effacing in places but clear in terms of saying, here's the choice at the next election: Cameron, who stands up for the wrong people, for tobacco over the cancer charities, [or] Ed Miliband the man on the side of ordinary families worried about their energy bills.

It seems to go against what the Prime Minister said in her very first words from Number Ten; fighting for ordinary families (or the «mainstream» as she called them today), who work around the clock but worry about the cost of living.

«I worry greatly that we might be about to build a university system that is out of reach for ordinary families,» he told the Andrew Marr programme.

The so - called «ordinary working families» are the first attempt by a minister to define the «just about managing» families that Theresa May set out to champion when she became prime minister.

David Cameron has always been perfectly honest (you could say straight) about his family heritage, in contrast to Mr Clegg, who attempts to pretend to be an ordinary down to earth Sheffield lad.

I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.

Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, said: «Quite a lot of these costs are now too high for ordinary working families and we have to think about that.»

Although this often strikes non-fanboys and non-fangirls as woefully atonal, it mostly works here, but it would be nice if No Ordinary Family had more humor about it.

Cat Paws are fur sure to be the life of any party, fill an ordinary with extraordinary moments, strike up conversations with just about anyone, and bring endless joy to everyone, even your beloved four - legged family members!

On first glance, «Quest» seems to be a documentary about an ordinary American family.

All are about ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges within their families and communities.

Broken Wings: A deceptively simple story about the trials and tribulations of an ordinary family.

Students will be taught about the impact of conflict on the daily lives of ordinary children and their families.

Australian writer Murray creates a true original in a 13 - year - old girl who has her own way of «overhauling the ordinary state of things» as she speaks in a unique voice about her eccentric friends and tries to separate the rumors about her family from the truth.

Also, the «private» tribute book surged as ordinary people began writing and publishing about family histories, life events, vacations and wildlife, among other things.

First, the story touches on ordinary, universal emotions about family and children.

The little I learned about her on that flight suggested that she had come from an ordinary, middle - class Muslim family — a family in which a decision like hers would be almost unthinkable.

It's about a musical family of violin - makers caught up in the 1917 Revolution, which means it combines a lot of the strands of her own past experience that until now she had thought were just plain incompatible: music, Russia, and pity for the ordinary people caught up in big, uncontrollable conflicts.

There's nothing ordinary about this all - foster rescue organization that connects animals in need with loving homes while volunteers search for a forever family.

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It is a book about childhood, a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary — beset by the unthinkable, but buffered by an extraordinary and loving family.

An ordinary mechanism for non-legal professionals to cope with such demands would be to talk to a colleague or a family member about their difficulties.

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And after one year of ordinary performance in all respects, she picked herself up and transferred to a university at the other end of the country, just about as far from her family as it was possible to go.

The event, backed by actress Joanna Lumley and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, aims to raise awareness about the proposed # 350m cuts to family and civil law and the impact they will have on ordinary people's lives.

The family package policy consists generally of some level of ordinary whole life insurance on the principal breadwinner, half that amount in term insurance on the spouse, and about half that amount again of term insurance on each of the children.

To the credit of the entire cast, the hours I spent in Sweetwater as Deputy Tucker were filled with moments that felt magically ordinary: talking to the residents about their problems, families, hopes, and dreams.

On Tuesday, Lewis told Local 10 News that he expected the jurors to ask members of the Snead family whether they saw anything out of the ordinary involving Cruz and about the access he had to weapons he was allowed to have stored at the home.

Inform the child's early childhood service or school about any family stress that is out of the ordinary.