Sentences with phrase «just ordinary citizens»

That question is on the lips of not just ordinary citizens of the world, not just mums and dads and brothers and sisters and cousins and mates who have for the better part of two weeks been agonizing and importuning Divinity for answers; demanding of the super-minds that transcend super-conductors and super eyes in the dark skies; the nerds, the geeks, the Hollywood super-creators of holocaust and great - endings to give them answers to that unanswered question on the lips of every human who has access to the super-communication industry... where in the heck is Flight 370?

It would be a crime if the person charged was just an ordinary citizen.

Despite being featured on the gatefold cover of Vanity Fair's 2017 Hollywood Issue in a sparkly, thigh - baring gown, flanked by Dakota Johnson and Janelle Monáe, Gerwig is pleasantly unpretentious; just an ordinary citizen — like many of her roles — meeting someone for lunch at the restaurant around the corner from her house that serves her favorite fried artichokes.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

So, imagine you are just an ordinary citizen who might have seen a mention of disinformation campaigns rampant in the global warming issue, perhaps even seeing the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase spelled out in connection to the Information Council on the Environment.

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Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

I'm not a homeless activist in our city, I'm just a rather ordinary citizen, but let me tell you, I'm disgusted and disappointed and more than a little angry.

But beyond electoral processes, it is just as vital to the health of a democracy that ordinary citizens are meaningfully involved in the discourse concerning issues affecting their lives and country.

The Immigrant X app is just the latest instance of ordinary citizens adopting the same powers as authorities.

The first military reconnaissance satellite launched just shy of 50 years ago; its designers could never have guessed that ordinary citizens from around the world would be using its descendents to try to save villages in a remote region of Africa.

Moving around the country should be easier not just for business people, but for the ordinary citizen as well.

This is why they love «gun free zones» like New York City, where ordinary citizens cant carry, just the rich, famous, and politically connected.

He said the government has fulfilled a part of the social contract it had with the people just 16 months in office, adding they are working assiduously to ensure the fulfilment of the rest to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.

i am just an ordinary Filipino citizen with an ordinary life..

The message of the movie is as clear as Siberian ice: Whether you're a Tea Partier, an Occupier or just an ordinary Joe, you might be the next citizen who's stranded in limbo.

Across all the school - board and bond elections, the median difference in turnout rates between these teachers and ordinary citizens is just 7 percent, which could be simply due to social class.

In every district with available data, and for all three sets of elections, other district employees who live and work in their districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and work in the district.

But for a peek at the ordinary lives of citizens of Edinburgh, Real Mary King's Close is a hidden treat, just off the Royal Mile.

If that's all you read, Rado's situation is seemingly only beset by an appearance of having the arrogance that Connolley would grant such a favor to an ordinary citizen who just arrived out - of - the - blue.

Deeply isolated in their own tiny academic bubble only talking to like minded individuals also inside of that bubble where the real word rarely intrudes, I doubt that very many of these scientists realise just how stupid and even imbecilic and disposable they are starting to appear to the ordinary citizen on the street particularly when they try to sell a bill of goods like those adjusted and etc and etc temperatures from a half dozen or more decades past as the real temperatures of the times and then change those same temperatures or remove then the next day or week or whatever and then change then yet again and again.

Just when he thought it was safe to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of ordinary citizens, a federal judge has to spoil his fun.