Sentences with phrase «about ordinary people»

It's about ordinary people and their extraordinary dreams...

It's about ordinary people deliberating across differences and taking responsibility for their future together — before, during, and after electing their public officials.

@ShaunCG: You're right about the financial risk vs pension, but I'm anxious about ordinary people funding projects that, inevitably, end up enriching corporations.

Guts and Glory is a game about ordinary people competing in extraordinary [Continue Reading]

Ito: Like I mentioned earlier, the story is about an ordinary people, and by our senses, firing around a gun is not very common.

Novels are about ordinary people.

A tour de force about ordinary people caught in the tide of an extraordinary situation, Catherine Chanter's The Well is a haunting, beautifully written, and utterly believable novel that probes the fragility of our personal relationships and the mystical connection between people and the places they call home.

Explore our map to learn about ordinary people who are striving to build and sustain racially, culturally, linguistically and economically integrated schools, communities and a wide range of social institutions in the United States.

I know it's about Donald Sutherland but my favorite part about Ordinary People is a very young and lovely Elizabeth McGovern.

Yes, it's a three - hour - long movie about ordinary people adjusting to civilian life after the end of World War II.

It's about ordinary people taking command of their destiny.»

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

A strained marriage, a tipsy New Year's Eve party and a deadly road accident are but the opening gambit of «Midnighters,» a just - taut - enough thriller about ordinary people faced with extraordinary dilemmas.

Together, they gather extraordinary stories about ordinary people living in small villages, and then create striking artworks by plastering giant images of the people on the sides of buildings.

They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

They are strangers, neighbours and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

In short, Wonderland is an extraordinary film, as entertaining as it is observant, about ordinary people.

A film about ordinary people - perhaps they get a bit angrier about their lot in life than some of us do.

His findings, which strongly influenced Cameron's subsequent tactics, were that most people believed the Tories to be «out of touch», «opportunistic», «don't care about ordinary people», «stuck in the past», and «care more about the well - off than the have - nots».

Ros Kayes, a councillor who is also standing for parliament for the Lib Dems in West Dorset, confirmed that she had signed: «On the doorstep, Nick has become a hate figure — he seems more concerned with his own position than about ordinary people.

«He will say the ex-PM's decision to axe the 10p tax rate — which hit the low - paid hardest — sent out the signal that Labour «didn't care» about ordinary people.

«The openness and the sincerity he has — he really cares about ordinary people — is something that's been lacking.»

Voters are much more likely to see Labour as the party that understands and cares about ordinary people.

Yet the attempt to humanise some rather abstract messages by telling stories about ordinary people — such as «Gareth», whom Miliband had met while walking in Hampstead Heath — fell horribly flat.

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.

And that's the thing about this, whatever «this» is, it's about ordinary people trying to live out a faith that is real.

Not exact matches

But while rhetoric about North Korea heats up, the abstract talk about military options, sanctions, and engagement obscures the people at the center of it all: millions of ordinary North Koreans.

What's more, by protecting rich people who harass or abuse others, NDAs can put countless ordinary people at risk — you'll never find out your new boss is a harasser if all his victims are prohibited from talking about it.

James goes into detail about his book, the amazing stories from his personal interviews with ordinary people with extraordinary achievements, and some ways of acquiring knowledge and applying it to your life and start winning yourself.

«These aren't stories about the «before and after» reveal or people with six packs,» PureGym's chief marketing officer Stephen Rowe told The Drum, «these are ordinary everyday people that really value healthy lifestyles and the role Pure Gym can play in that.

Two things are certain about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — confusion reigns, and along much of the pipeline it falls to ordinary people to protect what is important to the places they care about.

«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.

He is smart, moderate, intelligent, good with ordinary people, pro business, & not beholden to somebody's financial darling cause, cares about people.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

In 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary people.

In their attempt to grow in holiness by carefully observing rules about food and purity» the Pharisees may have kept themselves apart from ordinary people, rather as some vegetarians are reluctant to eat with those who have chosen meat, or as the early Methodists, with their stress on temperance, kept themselves apart from those who drank alcohol.

Failure to recognize this simple and patent truth about the people of our time, whether they be educated or uneducated, sophisticated or simple, explains to a large degree the admitted failure of what is compendiously called «neo-orthodoxy» to communicate itself significantly to the ordinary man and woman of our day.

Searle would respond by saying that this contradicts the ordinary language meaning of «knowing a language,» but nevertheless, the point here is one about the type of knowledge in the person operating the Box.

This person could simply be an ordinary, middle - class employee of the county going about his or her business.

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

The beginning of a shift of attention to these matters has come about because persons concerned for the preservation of forests have also been concerned that ordinary people should be able to cook their food.

Not as a scientist, but as an ordinary person, without scientific pretensions, talking about what we all experience, I feel, listen, and look.

Gossip, as a church activity without malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral data about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it means to be baptized.

I see him in the masses of ordinary people in the mall, going about their shopping.

The Catholic Church was eager to tell a positive story about the Church's role during the war, and the State of Israel was eager to promote the idea of righteous gentiles and tell stories of right - minded ordinary people who helped to save ordinary Jews.

Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives: