Sentences with phrase «ordinary families struggling»

«The government needs to scrap this proposal and start helping the millions of ordinary families struggling with sky - high housing costs.»

The government needs to scrap this proposal and start helping ordinary families struggling with sky - high housing costs

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.»

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If the bank is too hard on its borrowers — suing a struggling family for unpaid debts, for example — it could revive a popular image as a bank that earns profits at the expense of ordinary people.

Not that ordinary means universal: some of us are struggling with family relationships, with health, or with finding jobs.

Responding to the news, Unite national officer Jennie Formby, said: «Ordinary families are already struggling to afford the weekly shop.

These latest cuts to welfare show the disdain with which this government views ordinary people and underlines just how out of touch they are with working families struggling to make ends meet.

I hear all the time about pensioners struggling to help their children put down deposits on first homes, after a multi-decade property boom that has seen houses in some areas increase in value one hundredfold in just 40 years, lifting even modest family homes way out of the reach of those on ordinary incomes.

The others are «Last Days in the Desert» (May 13), from «Albert Nobbs» director Rodrigo Garcia, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil (yep, you read that right) in a struggle over the fate of an ordinary family; and writer / director James Napier Robertson's «The Dark Horse» (Apr. 1) a biopic of chess champion Genesis Potini.

That's why it was a stunner when Moore returned to the spotlight in 1980 in the family drama Ordinary People, playing a cold and sometimes emotionally cruel mother struggling to deal with the death of a child.

Like Room, this is a novel that focuses on the ordinary in the extraordinary — though their situation is extreme, the Vincents had trouble in their marriage before Caleb's disappearance, and most of their struggles are those that any family would share.

There is nothing in Rooke's description of the philosophy of OPCA's — which seem to be detached from actually achieving any legal outcome, since they do not recognize the legitimacy of the court or the legal system — that resembles the struggles of ordinary men and women who can not afford, or who have run out of funds, to pay a lawyer to act as their agent in family or civil matters.

This perspective allows family therapists to help families get to the root of their problems and facilitates healing for all members of the family, whether the problem is related to substance abuse or addiction, abuse, mental health disorders, unexpected or dire circumstances, or just the ordinary everyday stress we all struggle with on occasion.