Sentences with phrase «given ordinary people»

With the advent of the Internet and how it has (a) naturally opened things up and (b) given ordinary people a megaphone — along with (c) advances in DNA testing — closedness in adoption is on its last legs.

The Internet has given ordinary people more power than ever before.

But in order to give ordinary people greater participation in the decisions that govern their lives, my ideal would be self - sufficiency in essentials in much smaller communities.

In 2010, while pursuing a doctorate in materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Russo wanted to give ordinary people access to advanced industrial materials, including the conductive inks used in 3 - D printing.

About Blog Our aim is simply to further the cause of mindfulness in whatever way we can, and also to give ordinary people the chance to talk about the practice.

«I hope our inquiry will help give ordinary people a role in creating a ten - year vision for education investment.

About Blog Our aim is simply to further the cause of mindfulness in whatever way we can, and also to give ordinary people the chance to talk about the practice.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky's effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76 - year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin Hood who robs from hallowed art tradition to give ordinary people bravura paintings that don't require them to plumb art history or some other arcane discipline to appreciate.

By quantifying the benefits of Australian and associated international action, research can give the ordinary person a better idea of what's in the package.

The great advance that blogging enabled, not just inside the law but throughout society, was giving ordinary people the power to publish.

Blockchain technology deals with that problem as it gives ordinary people control over it.

Even though he acknowledged that major cryptos can not be recognized by PBOC in the near future, he had a soft stance on bitcoin stating «it gave ordinary people the freedom to participate.»

CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws.

About Blog Our aim is simply to further the cause of mindfulness in whatever way we can, and also to give ordinary people the chance to talk about the practice.

Not exact matches

«We are doing what journalists throughout said mainstream media are supposed to do: challenge the conventional wisdom, hold politicians» feet to the fire, ask tough questions, report facts that are in many cases inconvenient truths for career politicians, and give a voice to the millions of people worldwide who have had theirs taken away from them by world elites who consider the ordinary person beneath them,» Boyle said, pointing to Breitbart's record July traffic as evidence Americans «hunger for something different.»

And yet the tax code continues to give preference to capital gains over ordinary income — a major advantage to investors but not to people who rely on paychecks for their living.

Unlike the more «spiritual» and heroic religious literatures of the world, the Bible gives attention to a host of ordinary people, doing rather ordinary things.

However, companies should have these gifts as the quality and elegant ones because the people they are giving these gifts are not the ordinary clients they have.

Six ordinary people explain how giving up just a few hours a week dramatically changed their lives for the better

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

When Jesus gave the golden rule and the sermon on the mount, he knew his audience, and he was not talking to the politicians — he was talking to THE PEOPLE — ordinary individuals.

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).

In practice, the idea that marriage was the remedium concupiscentiae seemed to suggest to many - ordinary people and pastors - that concupiscence in marriage could be given way to quite freely.

A practice that appears to give people what they want — and what some of them are prepared to clamor for — turns out to be difficult to combat with ordinary professional experience and wisdom.

Thought also needs to be given to the ways in which globalism disenfranchises ordinary people and empowers the technocratic elite.

Instruction is given to children of distinguished families by a teacher — called a guru — who visits them at their home; children from ordinary families of the common people go to the guru's home or to a place of worship.

With this event, we'd like to give you a more intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in Syria with a screening of «I Want to Live», a beautiful and moving documentary, and offer you a chance to savour the flavours of the region, to celebrate the vibrant and resilient food culture, where the act of sharing food and communal eating is the act of living!

Through the influence of ordinary working people, children where given opportunities to go into education with no cost and work attracted pay.

«I want us to give millions of ordinary families and people in this country the opportunity to live a better life... What we want to do is genuinely address the cost of living and social mobility.»

The Localism Bill, currently negotiating its committee stage in the Lords, is a powerful expression of the Conservative instinct to devolve decision making away from Whitehall and give power to ordinary people over their homes, neighbourhoods and lives.

The last fact is particularly galling given the perception of «being in touch with ordinary people» is one of Labour's main advantages against the Tories.

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.

Psychologists distrust ordinary explanations people give for their behaviour.

It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets.

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.

Give the person the benefit of the doubt and come up with something fun or out of the ordinary to do or say to surprise them.

Given the fact that rich men and rich women only visit places that are secluded, there was no way the ordinary people could connect with them with ease.

It's a tempting idea for an action picture, given the noble impulses that led to the war and the sacrifices many ordinary people made to win their independence.

As early as 1942, William Wyler's Oscar - winner Mrs Miniver was painting a morale - boosting portrait of ordinary people volunteering to make the cross-channel crusade, while in 1958's Dunkirk Leslie Norman (father of Barry) gave us John Mills and Richard Attenborough exhibiting British pluck.

Her relationship with Ohanian, whose status as extraordinarily wealthy co-founder of Reddit is delivered with the same off - hand casualness as an ordinary person might give to going to see a new Marvel movie, is treated as sweetly competitive as well.

Elsewhere, the wonderful Donald Sutherland gave huis finest performance since «Ordinary People» in «Without Limits,» portraying the coach of famous runner Steve Prefontaine, bringing real dignity to the part.

They forge a rocky yet endearing relationship that isn't as stark as Robert Redford's ORDINARY PEOPLE, but (not to give too much away) has some of the same themes and undertones.

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.

I'm not sure that Mr. Hitt would disagree entirely but I think what looks like «don't give a shxx» is partially a common misconstruction by ordinary people in the DCC.

It gave me the courage, as an ordinary person, to continue their work with the present challenges before us.»

While any ordinary person might have thought «I've given enough» — while it would have been completely understandable for Charlie to retreat into the peace of private life — Charlie was no ordinary guy.

It has very few badges to give it away (although its daytime running lights help) but its two large rear exhaust let the people you just screamed past know that this isn't an ordinary Golf.

One of the ways that I think that recipes were a particularly important part of this story is that it showed how an ordinary family struggled through a most horrific time and were able to help their community... it gives you a look at «the other» and realizing that the ordinary people who were part of «the other» are very much like «me.»

I believe there's amazing talent and creativity locked in the minds of ordinary people, and it can only come out when someone gives them a chance, provides them the tools and encouragement, and shares the knowledge of how to apply these tools.

It gave me so much more understanding about what the war did to ordinary people in Germany.