Sentences with phrase «by any ordinary person on»

I'm not doubting his credentials, but such comment can easily be made by any ordinary person on the street.

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involvement, and don't want government to run our affairs, but they don't» mind that the Corporate power in this country is becoming more like Organized Crime Mafia, and they turn the blind eye to their lawlessness and the injustice done, and heavy burdens that are being loaded on the ordinary people by those in power... That's why we have the poor, and ever - increasingly — becoming - poor working class.

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.

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.

Brazil has also recently been gripped by an anti-establishment mood, fueled by anger over spending on mega-events such as the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, while many ordinary people believe that services such as education, health care and transportation languish.

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.

We would get on with our toddler groups and quaint carol services, mostly unhindered by the complaints of ordinary people.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

And there is considerable evidence that the ideas of one person can have effects on another that can not be explained by ordinary physical mediation.

Today «miracles» are performed by ordinary people, not just by a special class of men on special occasions.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

There are the classics of the past, and fortunately some of the present, which are great books for the serious student but which are not apt to be widely understood or read by the ordinary person seeking light on his daily task.

The way that we beat terrorism is by staying strong, dusting ourselves down and moving on, rather than this populist move to capitalise on the goodwill of ordinary people.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

It should send a message to the high rollers in banking that bonuses are unacceptable while ordinary people suffer the austerity forced on them by the colossal errors of the banking elite.

It's why when I stood on the steps of Number 10 for the first time as Prime Minister 84 days ago, I said that the Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the rich and powerful, but by the interests of ordinary, working class people.

Npp government is making the trust for politicians erode before the good people of Ghana as the days go by, because we politicians who promised during our campaigns to serve the ordinary people after winning elections ride on the neck of the poor people who pushed us there.

The chief who was impressively supported and cheered on by others chiefs, queen mothers, elders and opinion leaders and the ordinary people, described Mr. Mahama as their son, grandson and royal from Nyinahini, insisting they won't sit down for others to maltreat him.

But has he shown he can walk with ordinary people, understand what it is like to be delayed by the Tube, or what it means to struggle on the minimum wage, or how to run a small business?

«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.

You don't have to like Tony Blair, or what he did to Iraq to concede that he achieved more for ordinary people — increased spending on public services, the minimum wage, a reduction in child poverty, peace in Northern Ireland — than Foot, Kinnock, Miliband or Corbyn combined, by virtue of actually getting elected.

More on the Labour leadership from Channel 4 News: - Labour leadership: the contenders - David Miliband: frontrunner and underdog - Andy Burnham: the «ordinary» person's candidate - Ed Miliband: the alternative brother - Will Straw: leadership will be decided by Balls voters - Labour leadership: the «squabble» for power

More on the Labour leadership from Channel 4 News: - Labour leadership: the contenders - David Miliband: frontrunner and underdog - Andy Burnham: the «ordinary» person's candidate - Diane Abbott: more than a token Labour candidate - Labour leadership: the «squabble» for power - Will Straw: leadership will be decided by Balls voters

Called Audetel, (audio described television), it was originally designed to give visually disabled people the chance to enjoy TV by providing an audible des - cription of what is happening on the screen and transmitting it with ordinary TV signals.

It assumes that ordinary people on a jury, having heard two sets of scientific evidence from experts, will be able to arrive at the truth by choosing between the two versions.

Ordinary dating sites can seem intimidating, but by using PenPalsPlanet.com you have the advantage of approaching people and being approached by people on a penpals / friendship level, which many people find much better.

And it fits by the way quite well into Adrian Martin's definition of «great events and ordinary people» in his wonderful essay on Malick's masterpiece The Tree of Life.

Forman took full advantage of this by creating a series of films, beginning with «Black Peter» (1964), which commented on the lives of ordinary people with a filmmaking that combined a documentary - like style (including the use of improvisation and non-professional actors) with a biting and deeply anti-establishment sense of humor.

Both the «ordinary people get superpowers» and found footage genres are getting stale, but Chronicle uses both to good advantage, chiefly by being spot on in how teenagers would react to their new - found powers.

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.

«There are five great young male performances in the past forty years, in chronological order: Dennis Christopher in «Breaking Away», Michael O'Keefe in «The Great Santini», Timothy Hutton in «Ordinary People», River Phoenix in «Running On Empty» and now Timothee Chalamet in «Call Me by Your Name».»

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

Focusing on the choices made by ordinary people helps students appreciate how history is shaped by the everyday actions of individuals and counters the popular narrative that only leaders have the power to influence society.

The Beetle comes from the early 1930s, when the German car industry was desperately seeking its own Ford Model T, some form of cheap transportation that would not only put ordinary people on wheels but also restart the economic engine of a society crushed by the Great Depression.

For skeptics who believe that she might have idealized the courage and generosity of ordinary Italians during the 1940s, Russell closes her author's note with the following inscription chiseled on the marble memorial stela in Borgo San Dalmazzo by the Jews of Saint - Martin - Vesubie in honor of the people of Valle Stura and Valle Gesso: When racial hatred raged in Europe, Jewish Refugees, uncertain of their fate, coming from distant countries — Austria, Belgium, Germany, Poland — found hospitality and safety in these valleys.

The truth is, it was a stupid, ordinary accident, although later people tried to make it seem more heroic by spreading the story that Spider fell off his horse during a match against a Chilean team, but the rough stuff actually came later, during a drunken free — for — all, because the match was in the morning and Spider had watched it from one of the bottom rows of the stands since he's too fat to make it up to the top, and I can tell you that the closest he got to the action was betting on the Chileans and against the locals.

Many children are victimized and they need to be protected not only by the government, but also by the ordinary people who face this problem every day and it does not depend on either their position in the society or level of life or their age, habits, sex and religion.Therefore, to know this problem better and try to find Continue reading

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Seems to me both those suggestions can be implemented by ordinary working people on weekends (to leave the city) and on their annual vacations.

By Rebecca Burn - Callander, Enterprise Editor — Daily Telegraph / The Telegraph A free platform, which is giving away investment formulas based on the strategies used by multi-millionaire investors, is hoping to democratise stock market investment Ordinary people can now invest as Warren Buffett, James Slater or Sir John Templeton do by using a free algorithm -LSB-..By Rebecca Burn - Callander, Enterprise Editor — Daily Telegraph / The Telegraph A free platform, which is giving away investment formulas based on the strategies used by multi-millionaire investors, is hoping to democratise stock market investment Ordinary people can now invest as Warren Buffett, James Slater or Sir John Templeton do by using a free algorithm -LSB-..by multi-millionaire investors, is hoping to democratise stock market investment Ordinary people can now invest as Warren Buffett, James Slater or Sir John Templeton do by using a free algorithm -LSB-..by using a free algorithm -LSB-...]

One thing we've seen on the ground repeatedly are groups helping caregivers, as well as rescue work conducted by people unaffiliated with any organization — ordinary individuals who see an animal in need and take the initiative to respond compassionately.

Christy (pictured on a solo trip to Cabo, Mexico) «Ordinary Traveller» was named because many travel bloggers were written by nomads, but that the people who want a family and an adventurous life are the «ordinary»Ordinary Traveller» was named because many travel bloggers were written by nomads, but that the people who want a family and an adventurous life are the «ordinary»ordinary» people

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

He has five new paintings in the Whitney show and the most striking depicts Philando Castile, an ordinary person who became a familiar figure when was killed during a traffic stop by a Minnesota police officer on July 6, 2016.

Published on the occasion of Taylor's 2012 exhibition at MoMA PS1, where the artist established his New York studio for the duration of the show, the publication explores Taylor's ambitious and deeply humanistic project to present a worldview defined by the people — extraordinary and ordinary — with whom we live.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

In the same way that Gustave Courbet's work challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a heroic scale, Wheat seeks to reapply the idea of the large - scale tapestry, hung primarily behind royal thrones and used as symbols of authority during medieval times, by re-contextualizing their use and imagery.

Phong Bui (Rail): When I saw the first images from Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989, I, like many others, was shocked by the ordinary man, carrying two shopping bags, trying to stop the advancing tanks of the People's Liberation Army.

Its central figure, a factory worker, is flanked by smaller scenes of ordinary people at a picnic, in a parlor, on a farm and in a schoolroom.