Sentences with phrase «more ordinary people»

Discovering that lawyers were using the site more than their clients, they tried adding videos to bring in more ordinary people.

Our hope now is that more ordinary people like us will use CoolMove.org as a starting point for action.

As global demand for natural resources intensifies, more and more ordinary people are having to defend their rights to land and the environment from corporate or state abuse.

There are many more ordinary people who are content to allow the few Mariannes to do what is right, to right wrongs.

Not exact matches

«Younger people who view their future as extensive gain more happiness from extraordinary experiences,» the researchers concluded, while as people age, it is more ordinary experiences that become associated with happiness.

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

What's more, by protecting rich people who harass or abuse others, NDAs can put countless ordinary people at risk — you'll never find out your new boss is a harasser if all his victims are prohibited from talking about it.

During his tenure in Chongqing, Wang urged local media to focus more on ordinary people rather than municipal officials in their coverage.

As more and more pundits — and ordinary people — turn bullish on cryptocurrencies, it's time to become a contrarian and put some money into real crisis insurance.

Nowhere has the phenomenon of ordinary people buying virtual currencies been more visible than in South Korea, where several exchanges have storefronts to help new customers.

«The Liberals watched for two years as the cost of housing skyrocketed out of reach for families, because they cared more about helping their developer friends than ordinary people.

This should be straightened up by a pious monarch who is more concerned for the ordinary people than for the rich power elite.

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.

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.

To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful... Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days.

My parents — an ordinary couple — made a deliberate decision, intent on getting to know the people around them from more than a polite distance.

It was also a nation in which the government, more often than not, served the interests of the privileged and ignored the aspirations of ordinary people.

Mr Batten, who did not rule out standing for the leadership on a permanent basis, said: «I feel optimistic that Ukip can and will grow stronger and more successful because ordinary patriotic people want, need and deserve a party that represents their interests.

Even if the global government is far more subject to the will of the world's people than are transnational corporations, it is very far removed from ordinary people.

In fact, it took more than 200 years for Milton's ideas to permeate the thinking and behavior of ordinary people.

The claim of my nonpacifist colleagues that the system they are using is more socially responsible, more understandable to ordinary people, more culturally accessible to people of other value communities, more able to manage with discrimination the factual data of political decisions, than is my testimony to Jesus» words and work, still has the burden of proof.

Now I think the mainline churches are going to have their turn on the electronic stage as two - way communication becomes increasingly possible on radio and TV, and as cable TV and videotape enable ordinary people to make more use of, and to regain some control over, electronic communications.

These are ordinary Christians who feel overwhelmingly that their Christian beliefs are being marginalised and that as a result it is becoming far more difficult to live as a person of faith in the UK...»

If we were to read even that biased evidence more critically, we would notice the professionals upbraiding the mass of ordinary people for lack of faith, as if the gift of which, we are told, modernity has deprived us was always rather the exception.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.

In every community there are hundreds of ordinary, functioning people who — when they let themselves feel — long to experience more vividly, relate more pleasurably, and work more effectively.

No more shock over the fact of mortality and no more self - promotion into an elite band of thinkers and seers, just an occasional shiver when alone and undistracted, plus a routine conviction that I was more educated and clear - sighted than ordinary people.

The ordinary members of the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches have a far less authoritarian mentality than Catholics, a far more widespread and lively sense of the richness of their traditions of prayer and practice, and a far more secure sense of ownership by the people of the symbols which provide continuity with the Christian past and guidance to its future.

In the ordinary sense we have more «Government» than ever, i.e., massively expensive regulatory bureaucracies micromanaging ever more details of people's lives and livelihoods.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

Most Rev John Davies, Archbishop of Wales told Premier he's just an ordinary person that wants to show... More

Experts are certified chiefly by having been wrong more often than ordinary people.

Darwin there reminded his readers that centuries earlier a geocentric world was intellectually more satisfying to ordinary people, but eventually the realization came that the voice of the people can not be trusted to be the voice of God.

Their goal was to help ordinary people become more observant of the law (both written and oral) as a way of affirming or reinforcing their Jewish identity.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

Or, even in us ordinary mortals, the sense of duty which made Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn say that conscience «takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides» — that is not simple.

Therefore, one might predict that people deprived of ordinary sensory input will detect the presence of other people in a room more reliably than they detect the presence of aggregates such as a piece of furniture.

Probably because they were writing for a very definite purpose, to get a message across to people, most of whom were not the highly educated or the cultured folk of the time, but ordinary people who would understand it thus as they would not a more elevated style of writing.

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!

At Elevation, we are more than just a beer company, we are a family, a community, and a collective of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

You say you're also a ref, so letting your incorrect comments go unchallenged could twist the truth more as people are bound to pay a lot more attention to what a ref has to say than an ordinary fan (though it shouldn't necessarily follow as there are some refs who are terrible, like dean)

Every member of the Duggar family (Yes, those Duggars) has to follow more rules than ordinary people follow.

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant

I guess my comment - written in too much haste and not enough thought - is a good example of how «ordinary» people can be earning a lot more than is typically expected or assumed, and in turn how popular perceptions of income distributions can indeed by quite far off the mark.

If the victim has children, they should automatically be classed as having priority need, if not they must be seen as being more vulnerable through being homeless than an ordinary person.