Sentences with phrase «ordinary family life»

We write stories of ordinary family life, in a world that we are just starting to discover, that always finds us unprepared, but never fails to fascinate us.

We write stories of ordinary family life, in a world that we are just starting to discover, that always finds us unprepared, but never fails to fascinate us.

We write stories of ordinary family life, in a world that we are just starting to discover, that always finds us unprepared, but never fails to fascinate us.

We write stories of ordinary family life, in a world that we are just starting to discover, that always finds us unprepared, but never fails to fascinate us.

No New Age proponent of the culture of death and instant gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family life.

Not exact matches

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

A government spokesman said the state is helping millions of households meet their living costs but added it wants «to go even further to help ordinary families».

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]-RRB-.

Abortion is not the only life issue, but it is the one that bears most directly on the lives of ordinary Catholics as they fight against the current to preserve family life.

Readers of Al - Jumuah deal pretty ordinarily with the ordinary vexations of family life in America: How to stay connected with your kids, how to raise good kids who know the value of study and hard work, how to improve a marriage, all these from a Muslim perspective are explored, more or less in the same way they are examined in a Christian family magazine.

«The result is a yawning gap between what ordinary families need for a no - frills living standard and what they actually have.»

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.

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

«I want us to give millions of ordinary families and people in this country the opportunity to live a better life... What we want to do is genuinely address the cost of living and social mobility.»

If you're from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise.

«If you're from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise,» she said.

For ordinary working families - the aspirational majority — who work hard, pay their taxes, who want to get on and not just get by, but who are working harder for less as the cost of living keeps on rising.

The ordinary Ghanaian needs education, clean water, affordable and accessible health care, opportunities to work and earn a decent living and take care of their families, governance without corruption; peace and stability; a safe and clean environment; a justice system that works, nothing fancy, nothing complex.

It seems to go against what the Prime Minister said in her very first words from Number Ten; fighting for ordinary families (or the «mainstream» as she called them today), who work around the clock but worry about the cost of living.

The truth, of course, is that the main impact of this bill will be to make life much more difficult for millions of ordinary families, whether they are surviving on meagre benefits or relying on tax credits to make work pay.

Liberal Democrats under VAT fire In an article for Channel 4 News UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said the VAT rise, along with the changes in the public sector would mean a «cut in living standards for millions of ordinary workers and their families.»

«Polls go up and down — one thing goes up and up is the cost of living for ordinary families,» he said after a new YouGov / Sunday Times poll found that only 17 % of respondents thought he was up to the job of prime minister.

The EPI found that those losing hot lunches would include 100,000 from families living in relative poverty, and 667,000 from those it defined as coming from «ordinary working families» of the kind that Theresa May has said she wants to help.

That can only mean the cost of living will soar as ordinary families pay the price for food from abroad.

It also follows Theresa May's reference to «life being much harder» for «an ordinary working class family» than «many people in Westminster realise.»

His energy and zeal to educate the Filipino people has translated into transformed lives, financially free families and has transformed ordinary consumers into investors.

One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi, Edward Yang's most accessible (and very last) film is a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.

But now that she has died, his new owners, the White family, make Poochini live the life of an ordinary dog.

Other moments reflect more ordinary aspects of her life, whether it's attending a family christening, visiting her grandmother or cooking and playing with her dogs at home.

Cat Paws are fur sure to be the life of any party, fill an ordinary with extraordinary moments, strike up conversations with just about anyone, and bring endless joy to everyone, even your beloved four - legged family members!

Apparently he thinks he can just make an easy transition from rom - com (Broken Hearts Club, Life as We Know It) and watered - down TV drama into blockbuster (he also created TV's «No Ordinary Family» and shares writing credit on the forthcoming Clash of the Titans sequel)...

Fruitvale Station, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks past the media frenzy to the life of the victim, portraying him as an ordinary man with friends and family who loved him.

The upcoming action - adventure family drama directed by Bryan Singer — who has directed recent X-Men films — tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are changed by the sudden discovery of their children possessing mutant powers.

Following on the success of E.T., there were quite a few clones involving a being that changes the lives of ordinary families for the better, only to have scary government agents out to destroy the alien / robot / sentient spaceship / mythical creature / furry animal lest things be revealed that the public dare not know.

The family lives in an ordinary, affluent American suburb and appears to be mostly normal, if a little formal with one another, until a menacing stranger enters their midst.

A sheltered chameleon, living as an ordinary family pet, faces a major identity crisis.

Risking his family and his own life, this intense thriller explores every parent's worst nightmare, as an ordinary man navigates the murky and unfamiliar waters of the dark underworld that is the drug trade.

It gives us men of very ordinary goals with whom to relate and further imbues them with the most honorable of motives: to provide a tolerable life for one's family, to stay loyal to old friends, and to find a reason to wake up every morning.

Under the Sun (Unrated) Bamboo curtain documentary chronicling a year in the life of an ordinary North Korean family from Pyongyang.

Students will be taught about the impact of conflict on the daily lives of ordinary children and their families.

These «ordinary working families» are defined as not the poorest, but living on «modest incomes», and likely to live in suburbs and coastal towns away from London.

You might want to include several images of Jewish life before the war (from Lesson 5) to help students remember that before they were persecuted by the Nazis, Holocaust victims were ordinary children, women, and men who enjoyed family dinners and playing with friends.

I, like so many teachers across our great state, can tell you with great joy the hundreds of examples of ordinary students doing extraordinary things in the classroom; Tell you the time when tears filled my eyes, when life hit a student like a ton of bricks, and give you the names of kids who were the first in their family to go to college.

Louisa Clark is an ordinary young woman living an exceedingly ordinary life — steady boyfriend, close family — who has never been farther afield than their tiny village.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than their tiny village.

Also, the «private» tribute book surged as ordinary people began writing and publishing about family histories, life events, vacations and wildlife, among other things.

A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper - middle - class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.

The beauty of the book - it takes an ordinary family dealing with everyday life and the roller coaster life can be.