Sentences with phrase «of ordinary individual»

To write Julie's biography, he looked to the English ballad and folktale tradition, narrating a life that conveys the beauty, vibrancy and contradictions of the ordinary individual.

Aaron Paul possesses an innate everyman quality that lends itself well to Zack Whedon's Come and Find Me, which is essentially a 21st - century update of the Hitchcockian framework of an ordinary individual caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

«Patty is the epitome of an ordinary individual doing extraordinary things for the children and families of Hammond, Indiana,» said School City of Hammond Director of Food and Nutrition Services Christine Clarahan.

The shaking loose of the ordinary individual from this identification with his society until, as a personality, he had worth, rights, and hopes of his own, was a supreme achievement.

But when I took the opportunity to re-read these books in the light of my later findings about the depth of financial difficulty out there, it was obvious that — whilst from my own perspective those statements were true — for possibly the majority of ordinary individuals, my efforts to open up and explain the mysterious world of personal finance had failed.

Through the extraordinary actions of ordinary individuals, the film acknowledges self - sacrifice as a kind of supernatural event, one that points to the ultimate salvation in Christ.

While response is sporadic, uneven, and sometimes undesirable, the availability of these channels has led to many cases being addressed where they otherwise would not have and increased the powers of ordinary individuals to make their situations known.

A gripping dramatisation centred on number of ordinary individuals caught in the infamous aftermath.

A decade later, he applies his boldly expressive style to stories that weave the fate of ordinary individuals into the fabric of stories weighed down by the colonial past.

Even with these limitations, the information covered by the Directive can potentially tell you a great deal about the activities and whereabouts of ordinary individuals.

Not exact matches

Under current law, high - income fund partners pay the long - term capital gains rate of 20 percent on their carried interest income, instead of the 39.6 percent individual tax rate that applies to the ordinary wage income of high earners.

Trump proposed changing the individual tax rate structure to one of just three brackets on ordinary income of 12 %, 25 % and 33 %.

In the realm of acquiring ownership in individual businesses, it often includes avoiding a trap many investors find tempting: Namely, overlooking what one famed economist has called the «tried and true» companies that rarely change, are highly profitable, and pump out ever - increasing sums of free cash flow for the stockholders despite being so ordinary few give them a second glance.

Distributions to individual owners might be subject to the individual's ordinary tax rates (12 %, 25 %, or 33 %) instead of the proposed corporate rate of 15 %

«Whether it is unaffordable housing, cuts to school classrooms, leaving seniors to suffer in understaffed care homes, long waits for basic healthcare, the lack of family doctors, or hallway medicine — ordinary individuals and families have paid the price for Christy Clark's tax cuts to the rich,» said Horgan.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

Specifically, the combined 21 percent corporate rate and 23.8 percent dividend rate should result in an effective combined tax rate of 39.8 percent on dividends paid to individuals, compared to the top federal income tax rate on ordinary income of individuals of 37 percent plus the 3.8 percent Medicare or Net Investment Income tax, if applicable, which itself was reduced from 39.6 percent plus the 3.8 percent Medicare or Net Investment Income tax, if applicable.

This is one of the few investing books I've read that is written for the individual investor, the ordinary guy and gal that just wants to start investing to meet their financial goals.

In general, while appeal to or reliance upon one's own intuition (in some technically unspecified sense of the term) may satisfy the informal demands of many ordinary, nontechnical contexts, such intuitive conviction — however important heuristically to the individual inquirer — may be of no logical relevance to the job of satisfying the technical demands constitutive of some formal arena of discourse.

At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

«21 A wondering individual is able to find the graceful in the ordinary - in a cup of tea or the caress of the winds.

To say that man is both an individual and a member of society is to make a statement not likely to be challenged from the standpoint of our ordinary relations.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

The purpose of this program is to make deliberate provision for the individual needs of the student in ways not possible in ordinary class instruction.

The defining criterion of mental illness is that an individual lives only in his solitary delusional world, unable to participate in the ordinary world of those around him.

They say that God is love, that love is consciousness of consciousness, or experience of experience, that God is not the absolute but is «more than the absolute,» also is not without becoming or dependence on ordinary individuals for the full divine actuality.

They were familiar with the fact of deception, both of the ordinary sort, where some malicious individual presents as truth what actually is false, and of the more insidious kind referred to just now that was attributed to the interference of an unfriendly spirit.

By means of this distinction, one can argue that, although the primary sense of a term with respect to how it means is the sense it has as applied to a creature, or ordinary individual, the primary sense of the term with respect to what is meant by it is the sense it has as applied to the Creator, or eminent individual.

The Old Testament certainly contains abundant illustrations of national actions that fall below the ordinary level of individual morality.

I am using the word «person» in its ordinary sense to designate an individual possessed of self - consciousness and will [whatever be the essential nature of personality].

The analogy uses ordinary physical interactions to illustrate the interplay between a slowly acting, overarching individual and the myriad of quickly acting individuals which make up its body.

I do not mean merely that the ordinary man is able to understand its content lexically, but that the ordinary man can understand that an augur announces to the individual the decision of heaven.

Taylor begins with the «affirmation of ordinary life» that marks the modern focus on the individual and displaces the ancient emphasis on heroic public actions.

So transferring the existential valence of existing to «actuality»» has the logical effect of reducing our ordinary sense of «existing» to that of «self identity» and so picture the act of creation as one of adding existence to already constituted individuals.

The ordinary claims of humanity are largely ignored in dealings with non-Israelite groups and individuals.»

When statements were made on radio and television that slandered individuals, or strong positions about issues of public importance were aired which needed balance and rebuttal, it was possible for ordinary citizens to demand that the station provide time for reply.

-- Or is it perhaps the case that the individual is born with both natures simultaneously; please to note, not with two natures which supplement one another and together form an ordinary human nature, but with two complete human natures, one of which pre-supposes the intermediation of an historical event.

«Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.»

Non ordinary reality may bring forth new information and new perspectives that forever alter the consciousness of the individual and the family.

By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence.

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.

(1) Current and valid photo identification provided by a third party in the ordinary course of business that includes the name and photograph of the individual presenting it.

An emphasis on individual economic liberties obscures the question of who sets the menu of choices available to ordinary workers.

It is helpful to understand that a lot of language contained in statutes do not create private law obligations (i.e. things that you could sue another private individual over) or generally applicable public law obligations (e.g. crimes and tax laws applicable to ordinary individuals).

The tax code also has sections almost as long as the entire tax code applicable to ordinary individuals who earn wages and salaries to cover specialty topics like how to determine the taxable income of an insurance company.

MPs can vote in their capacity as individual members, but their votes are not worth any more than those of ordinary activists.

In fact some of the Doubting - Thomases are not ordinary individuals but highly placed personalities even among the the media.

Lord Atkin's famous opinion in Ambard v. Attorney - General for Trinidad and Tobago [1936] AC 322, is apposite: «But whether the authority and position of an individual judge, or the due administration of justice, is concerned, No wrong is committed by any member of the public who exercises the ordinary right of criticising, in good faith, in private or public, the public act done in the seat of justice.