Sentences with phrase «doing extraordinary acts»

The books in this bibliography tell the stories of Malala and other everyday kids doing extraordinary acts to change the world.

Not exact matches

He did not miraculously heal me from my anxiety in one instant act of extraordinary intervention.

For example, the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doing something quite ordinary, signing a document but, because they did so in an extraordinary setting, with a revolution begun but not yet won, their act was extraordinary.

«You have to have an extraordinary act generally that causes people to focus in a way that would get them to do the pathological, which is to oust an incumbent,» Sheinkopf said.

The deputy Commons leader declined to elaborate on what those extraordinary mechanisms might be, although he did acknowledge these could include the Parliament Act.

In an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schools.

David Cameron might not exactly be in the Derren Brown class when it comes to pulling off extraordinary illusions, but he did pour some»70s magic act dry - ice over the issue of an EU referendum during the week of the Tory conference.

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA is required to grant California a waiver on air pollution emissions standards if the state has «compelling and extraordinary circumstances,» which California argued a decade ago, and which the Obama administration agreed that it does.

Many of those peasants are more scientifically literate than they are (sure, some are ignorant rednecks, but some of the AGW climate scientists are mediocre hacks) Just why, for example, do Steve McIntyre, and Holland have such extraordinary trouble getting reports using the FOI act?

Now I frankly don't care about how or why people have affairs, and neither does the law since the introduction of the no - fault Divorce Act in 1985, but the sheer number of people involved in just this one hook - up website is extraordinary, and I question what the hack says about the human capacity for monogamy.