Sentences with phrase «in ordinary places»

While 77.5 % of folks in ordinary places pitched in, only 35 % of luxury clients did the same.

Not exact matches

The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

But those measures have been in place for so long, they now seem ordinary.

Silver lining: by virtue of having renters in place before the local market went further south (when hospital closed), we were able to take a substantial ordinary loss on last year's tax return.

Capital gains and dividends are taxed as ordinary income with a 40 percent exclusion, leading to effective rates of 6, 15, and 21 percent before counting the 3.8 surtax currently in place.

He died east of Brest, deep in the woodlands of Huelgoat, a place that had been a frequent retreat when he was a child and where his imagination had first begun to float free from its moorings in ordinary life.

Consider the obituary column in your local newspaper — not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary obituary of an ordinary person from an ordinary place.

Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, whether at ordinary services in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we happen to be as human beings.

They forgot that they were all creatures of God, who chose to seek welcome in the midst of an unsettled country, to build a dwelling place with the lives of ordinary people, to make whole the earth by seeding it with heaven.

People of all times and places have reported states of consciousness that transcend ordinary experience, in which past and future disappear into a constant «now.»

It is essentially an adventure in exploration, an exploration from God into God, and this ordinary, this extra-ordinary world in which we live is the place where the exploring must begin.

The ones I've seen have happened in the most profound places in the most ordinary people.

But if he should begin to display his hobby in ordinary social gatherings, or to imagine that his knowing the works of Emily Dickinson entitled him to some measure of respect not accorded to those who had gotten no further than page three of The Sun, then it was time to put him in his place as a social outcast.

The latter always remains a highly personal matter; the minister is fitted to exercise this authority by the personal crises through which God leads him It is conferred upon him only in the inner chamber where ordinary thanksgivings, intercessions, confessions and petitions are daily made and where the extraordinary humblings or clarifications take place.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

In the first place, by no means all the functioning of the unconscious is «mental» in any ordinary sensIn the first place, by no means all the functioning of the unconscious is «mental» in any ordinary sensin any ordinary sense.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Next to this first type of primary charismatic, there is a derivative type: those who by some contact, possibly long and close, with the «friend of God» have acquired charisma, which places them in a category different from that of an ordinary member of the community: the apostles, companions, and first disciples of the great charismatics can be listed here.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

He said: «This historically for music was a very important day and it took place in an ordinary church hall.

All the elements were in place for one of those larger than ordinary mortals» performances, but the gambit seems to have fallen flat.

Grahame, We too have found that we can be the church, the body of Christ, in the most ordinary circumstances and the most ordinary places.

The sermon is uninspiring, the congregation is asleep, but suddenly the poet catches a glimpse of something beyond the ordinary, flat experience of worship in a «place [in which] the Good News... dropped down some black hole.»

For such a man to occupy a foremost place in history, and to continue to occupy it after nineteen centuries and more, is unexplainable on any ordinary grounds.

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).

Fortunately, the Pneuma God is alive and well and still quite active among us; but often in such ordinary, quiet ways that few even notices the slow; but steady transformatative change that is taking place.

In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real worlIn an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real worlin Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real worlin the detective story, placing events in a real worlin a real world.

Aristotle lays out the difficulties that the ordinary understanding places in the way of his conception: the actualization of the cause of the process seems to be distinct from that of the object of the process, for the one is an effecting, the other a being effected.

It seems puzzling and out of the ordinary to us because it exactly traverses the ordinary conception according to which a bodily thing is only actual in its own place.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

Personally, I'm in favor of abolishing the corporate income tax entirely and restoring the old «Millionaire's» tax brackets that were in place prior to Kennedy, then Ford, then Reagan cutting taxes left and right, coupled with the treatment of investment income as ordinary income in the tax codes.

There was irony in the fact that Richard's wake and funeral Mass took place in what the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar now calls «Ordinary Time»» a phrase Richard detested.

Since Whitehead is here accustomed to placing cognition — and by extension, perception — within the wider bodily context, it is not surprising that he should suspect a wider ambiance within which our ordinary understanding of perception takes place, a wider ambiance which deserves analysis in our theory.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary contexIn the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary contexin a larger than ordinary context.

Because the ordinary Spaniards of that period of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich in imagery and the native world of the Americas communicated mainly through an image - language, it was much more at the level of the image - word than of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.

Key words used religiously, if the meaning is not immediately clear in our modern culture, can be placed in their ordinary secular setting in order to clarify the meaning.

Ordinary families in parishes are the «place» where the Christian mystery is lived out most vividly.

Every time a person can see, even if only ironically and ambiguously, the events of his or her social and personal life illuminated by some aspect of the life and death of Jesus, then parabolic understanding is taking place, the ordinary is seen in a new context.

In the first place, Whitehead takes an evolutionary view of experience, reminding us that our ordinary, waking consciousness was once highly extraordinary among our primate ancestors.

I propose to show you in the first place the ordinary moist Madras curry, then a Malay or Ceylon curry, and if I have time, a dry Madras curry.

Which is a super awesome feat because there's so much good nutrition packed in there in the place of ordinary cheese — including fiber, protein, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, etc..

The sacred is not in the sky, the place of transcendent, abstract principle, but rather is based on this earth, in the ordinary dwelling places of our lives, in our gardens and kitchens and bedrooms.

«By saving and conserving structures like the first Taco Bell in Downey, we hope to set a precedent and demonstrate the great power that can come from unexpected histories in seemingly - ordinary places.»

The Overall Winner for the best new product was JavaMelts Flavored Sweeteners, which turns an ordinary cup of coffee into something special and delicious; The 1st Place Runner Up was [Actual] Iceberg, for their authentic iceberg ice from Newfoundland, off Canada's east coast; The 2nd Place Runner Up was Bake» nJoy for their Kitchen Cupboard ™ Gourmet Brownie, Cookie and Muffin Line; and Best New Product in the Food Trends Experience was Hal's New York for their New York Born, New York Made Seltzer Water.

Take these «hot» muffins on your next picnic in place of ordinary bread or even chips.

The next ordinary FIFA Congress will take place on 13 May 2016 in Mexico City.

Cover an ordinary storage cube with your favorite fabric, and you've got a lovely place to store toys as well as seating in the bathroom when you're helping the kids.

The thing is this price is just about right because a BumGenius One Size Inserts are not just your ordinary inserts — it comes with a unique snap that keeps the insert in place.

One or two spoonfuls are to be put into the pap saucepan, and stood on the hob till the heat has softened it, when enough milk is to be added, and carefully mixed with the food, till the whole has the consistence of ordinary cream; it is then to be poured into the nursing bottle, and the food having been drawn through to warm the nipple, it is to be placed in the child's mouth.