Sentences with phrase «average folks took»

Inspired by a mix of spiritual fervor and hatred for an allegedly demonic enemy, startlingly large numbers of average folks took up arms.

Not exact matches

Feeling like an insignificant pawn in a rigged game played with foreign rules, Hunter couldn't take it anymore — much like the average folks in the 1976 movie Network who opened their windows and voiced their outrage after being fed a seemingly endless diet of BS.
Take the high ground and understand the difference between the extremists and the average folks.
«The Senators are taking advantage of a corrupt system that lets politicians and special interests exploit loopholes for their own gain while average folks struggle just to stay above water.»
This will disproportionally screw Upstaters, of course, since NYC folks are more likely to skip buying a car and take the subway (or buy fewer cars than the average household outside of NYC).
If the folks at Guinness World Records kept tabs on climate change, they'd be taking note that the planet has hit a milestone: levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have averaged more than 400 parts per million each day for the entire month of April.
What the research shows: A new review in The Journal of the American Medical Association showed that compared with a placebo, people who took Qsymia lost up to 9.3 percent of their body weight in a year; those on Belviq lost on average about 3.2 percent over placebo, while folks on Xenical lost slightly less than that.
It turns out a lot of people paid attention because as of writing this, the average score is a ridiculously high 8.31 from the 357 folks who already took it.
So many folks just do not understand why a lender wouldn't take «something» rather than nothing — and although I try to explain there are many scenarios where the seemingly «nothing» may be more than meets the eye to the average consumer, you have articulated it very concisely and clearly.
Although a short hike, the steepness of the trail is tough and will take down us average folk, even if we start with the best intentions.
I'm told by the folks who take miles donations, such as the Make - A-Wish Foundation, that booking a domestic flight actually takes an average of 50,000 miles — and they book thousands every year.
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