Sentences with phrase «allows ordinary people»

Similarly, YouTube allows ordinary people to do what, 50 years ago, would have required a movie studio to achieve.

Uber allows ordinary people to turn some of their vehicles» extensive downtime (the average American car is idle 92 % of the day) into a revenue stream.

I found my answer in Kiva, a San Francisco — based organization that allows ordinary people, like most of us, to give microloans to women in the Third World for starting small businesses.

Because only a system allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and if we don't enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things by way of energy efficiency or clean power and conservation, you'll never ever achieve the scale of change we need, to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, petro - dictatorship etc.,

Before I go any farther, let me clarify that I'm a big fan of people - powered politics: if you look back at the last 17 months of articles on e.politics, you'll find plenty that celebrate the power of digital networks to allow ordinary people to upset the political applecart in ways previously unimaginable.

I'm not sure whether this could be termed as one of Ripple's drawbacks, but given that Ripple was originally claimed as a system that would allow ordinary people to make money transfers around the world, its focus on banks raises a few unanswered questions.

As the adage says, «The purpose of an organization is to allow ordinary people to do extraordinary things.»

Not exact matches

Online trading sites allow people to buy and sell it in fractions of a whole, meaning ordinary people don't have to plunk down a big bundle of money all at once to get a piece of the action.

This service allows ordinary Chinese people to enjoy popular Western movies and TV shows, such as «Homeland» and «House of Cards,» on their TV sets.

He said he wanted to allow more ordinary citizens to attend, which would «reconnect [state government] with the people and rebuild a relationship of trust.»

This, Mr Cameron argued, allowed extremists to claim mainstream politicians were not listening to ordinary people's concerns.

«In the end, we would save more money than we would spend by having a public financing system that allows people to run based on contributions from ordinary citizens rather than from special interest looking for something in return from the federal or state budget,» she said.

As a country, we simply invest too little in building the homes our people need, whilst allowing asset prices to inflate beyond the reach of ordinary families.

Ordinary residence status is often far more significant than domicile when it comes to detrmining tax status - as domicile status only helps shelter passive income which arises overseas, while not being ordinarily resident allows the person concerned to allocate their income between UK and non UK duties.

The «beating, radical heart» of the government was shifting power away from the centre to ordinary people, allowing them more choice over services, greater transparency about state spending and greater ability to get involved in running and shaping local services in their communities, he said.

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

This wasn t possible in the past without crash diets and restrictive living, but interval training, an emphasis on whole, natural foods (and away from carbohydrates and supplements), have allowed extraordinary results in ordinary people.

Less obvious, Nathaniel Brandon («The Psychology of Self Esteem») coined the term «social metaphysics» to describe the main problem that most of his ordinary clients had — allowing their world view to be defined by what they thought other people thought of them.

This allows them to approach people they may never meet in their ordinary day - to - day church activities.

I get that Greg acts as the audience's proxy, as he allows us to view Tommy from the «ordinary person's» view, but his apparent inability to recognize Tommy's multiple quirks and flaws limits his utility as «everyman».

It also organises global mass mobilisations that express solidarity between the global North and South, allow tens of millions of ordinary people to make their voices heard and bring pressure to bear on world leaders.

But Comer is the first to remind us that the obsessions of collectors and speculators shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of ordinary people who want to drive and enjoy these cars.

There are many more ordinary people who are content to allow the few Mariannes to do what is right, to right wrongs.

I created ordinary people and dropped them into specific historical circumstances, allowing them to accomplish extraordinary feats.

Facebook and Instagram don't just boast the fabulous lives of celebs but it has allowed seemingly ordinary people to create a false facade around their regular existence.

Peer - to - peer lending, as its name implies, allows individual investors to pool together and make loans to ordinary people like you and me.

Combining open world design with a strong story, and allowing you to colour in the patches of moral uncertainty with red or blue is something inFamous has long stood for, embodying the grand question of what would an ordinary person do if they developed superpowers?

I enjoyed Heather Van Uxem's sculpted spiders and dark stained wood, Samuel Gélas's paintings of displaced people in Guadeloupe, and an imagined alphabet of dented squares from Tim Roseborough — who allowed one to take home one's name, signed by him in ordinary cursive.

So when that democracy is under threat by those who have no other concern but for their own avarice and will do anything and compromise anyone to get what they want, should ordinary law abiding people just stand back and allow it to happen?

Global Witness has previously shown how anonymously - owned American companies allow a wide range of criminals to cheat justice and rip off ordinary people — from forcing vulnerable families into foreclosure to luring individuals from overseas into a human trafficking scheme that stretched across the U.S.

Professional proofreaders and copyeditors are just like you and me — they put their pants on one leg at a time in the morning, and they don't possess magical superpowers that allow them to spot typos ordinary people can't see.