Sentences with phrase «ordinary folk»

I created this blog to help ordinary folk and food manufacturers understand food safety so that we can reduce the incidence of food mediated illness.

-- that it's we ordinary folk and not any divinity who are inordinately fond of nifty sayings, rather like Haldane's, because English has so many words for them.

While it is true that some directors have identifiable political affiliations and are known as candidates for the NDP, the Liberals, and the Conservatives, others are non-partisan retired lawyers, judges, business people, and ordinary folk.

The practical problem for ordinary folk is, first, discovering that address, and, second, conveying that address in convenient terms.

But somewhere between the physics and the metaphysical we ordinary folk can catch occasional glimpses of the extraordinary, the glint of something unconsidered.

I wonder how many ordinary folk realise how artificial all these speculations are.

First, it fills the needs of the media for scary and arresting stories about things which can be alleged to affect ordinary folk.

Reblogged this on Climatism and commented: «Ex-Nationals senator Ron Boswell wrote in «The Australian» today, (19 April 2018), making the point that the RET is failing us and forcing electricity prices through the roof, putting ordinary folk in energy poverty and destroying businesses.

the «consensus» is a massive PR failure the zeppelin is on fire — soft landing doubtful like many in the aristocracy, Cook, Mann and cohorts assume ordinary folk are stupid and talk down to us, it's laughable as much chatter as goes on here about «the consensus,» it's already dead it was meaningless anyway

«Ex-Nationals senator Ron Boswell wrote in «The Australian» today, (19 April 2018), making the point that the RET is failing us and forcing electricity prices through the roof, putting ordinary folk in energy poverty and destroying businesses.

This leaves the door open for ordinary folk to interpret the image as if it were a USA Today map of actual temperatures instead of the < 0.25 C decadal trendings of a continent with an average temperature of -50 degrees C.

And when an egotistical, paranoid putz, suffering from delusions of grandeur, shoots himself in the foot, ordinary folk laugh all the harder.

I am under no illusions that scientists are above the petty foibles that beset the rest of us ordinary folk, like pride and ambition and biases and agendas.

If I might make a plea, we (skeptics) need to make the complex as understandable as possible, so we don't scare away ordinary folk who need to see these kinds of analyses.

And that's where I see my role — in convincing ordinary folk that this is an issue that they should care about, not because it will affect them but, more insidiously, it will be their legacy to their kids and grandkids.

I wonder if there would be a place for you or another / others to draft a «voice of ordinary concerned civilians» 3000 - word account of what makes ordinary folk collectively have a right to appeal as «interested parties».

The fact is that ordinary folk have contributed billions maybe trillions in the pursuit of trying to understand why or how our climate behaves and have failed dismally everyone involved is still dancing on the head of a pin with no end in sight.

So all we ordinary folk can do is sort out how to configure our own patches to ensure the survival of our own children in a time of rapid climate and social change.

But one can't help but feel they detract from the humble ordinary folk who've managed to get their work accepted, and that the whole thing, even though it's supposed to be anti-stuffy, remains firmly «establishment», cos once you're part of the «establishment», you're guaranteed a place.

Good News: Newspaper Salesman, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna + Ordinary Folk Life in Vienna

Gwaul's gang were just ordinary folk with common aspirations, nothing like the clichéd band of heroes you'd see in similar games, whose destiny is often sealed with a narrative kiss.

It's set seven years after InFamous 2, in a world made nervous by the events chronicled in that game — the outbreak of a significant chunk of the population discovering their superpowers has wrecked part of America, and the Department of Unified Protection has been set up to rein in the superheroes and villains, and safeguard the ordinary folk.

Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: on May 5th I once again had the pleasure of once again observing Free Comic Book Day, the least fake holiday of them all, that annual celebration when comic shops nationwide offer no - strings - attached goodies as a form of community outreach in honor of that time - honored medium where words and pictures dance in unison on the printed page, whether in the form of super-heroes, monsters, cartoon all - stars, licensed merchandise, or entertaining ordinary folk.

We are treated to an uncommon, insider's look at the new Russia, where high rollers live in sumptuous style and ordinary folk live as they did in the bleak days of Communism.

Ordinary folk suffer, facing travail with little choice but to continue.

Looking back through his novels and stories, it's clear that Price not only inherited Welty's gift for delivering precious gems of understanding about the manners of ordinary folk in charming language but also her deep and vast endowment for friendship and generosity.

But beneath the surface, it also serves as a sly, horribly relevant indictment of the realities of loan sharking, and perhaps even the wider world of financial elites and the ordinary folk whose lives and livelihoods hang on their whims.

He's grown weary of the light fare and wants to try his hand at a serious look at the problems of ordinary folk.

Woody, write about some ordinary folk please.

PARKLAND side steps the familiar and controversial conspiracy theories of past television and film work for a look at the ordinary folk drawn in to the immediate events following the shocking assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the fateful day in Dallas, Texas 1963.

The audience is never in any doubt that they are witnessing a feature predicated on that premise, with each element crafted to accentuate the seeming insanity of ordinary folk procuring such an extraordinary setting.

His movies are full of complicated characters discussing complicated things, sympathetically attuned to the lives of ordinary folk; quietly political and engineered with a masterly but unflashy sense of craft.

These fans (ordinary folk as opposed to industry - insiders, authors, academics or other experts) offer extensive and elaborate arguments for their interpretations, which range from the movie being a metaphor for genocide to proof that Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landings footage.

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and cold packs has been widely practiced by naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

You could be a Pro with rudimentary understanding of the sport, a beginner ready to get going, or you could be just an ordinary folk wanting to get an up and about physique and a good immune system!

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hydrotherapy, hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and enemas has been widely practiced by monks, naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

The differences between them are very narrow and they don't even speak the same language that ordinary folk out there, who are struggling with housing and jobs, speak.»

The prime minister, defensive about his background and claims that he is out of touch with ordinary folk, had insisted he was not in politics «to defend privilege, I'm here to spread it».

Contrary to how this news might be reported, the proposal is modest and does not mean ordinary folk will really be able to influence elections.

Deborah Summers: Yes, some MPs have been treated unfairly in the expenses row, but it's the sort of treatment ordinary folk have to deal with all the time

However, Labour's recent renaissance has been credited to doubts about the Tories» handling of likely spending cuts and their true understanding of what life is like for «ordinary folk».

The Country's voters - I talk to ordinary folk when out and about - give me the message that they are totally sick and tired of the fact that British society and life is characterised and fundamentally motivated by money and profit.

To lord it over ordinary folk.

Ordinary folk have had enough.

Brexit showed that ordinary folk have had enough - and that David Cameron was the ultimate political chancer.

those who are in the public eye specially sports personalities have to set an example to the younger generation, so yes i see a problem with any famous personality's smoking, drugs, driving fast, extramarital affairs, all things we the ordinary folk love to do but they cant

But it creates losers — both powerful businesses and ordinary folk — in the short term.

First, there are the ordinary folk, who are bound to obey the criminal laws.

Whether the persons be renowned — like former Union Seminary president Henry Pitney Van Dusen and his wife, Elizabeth, whose «suicide pact» made headlines — or just common ordinary folk, we experience strangely mixed emotions.

The best theologians were aware of the danger that ordinary folk would treat the Mass as the equivalent of a pagan sacrifice, and all the more so on account of the use made of Indulgences.