Sentences with phrase «ordinary men»

Weber viewed charisma as a certain quality of an individual's personality, by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least exceptional powers or qualities.

It is critical that the phenomenon of OPCA's is not conflated with the large and growing numbers of ordinary men and women now representing themselves in court.

This climate raises the risk of the conflation of OPCA's (whatever you may think about them) with ordinary men and women who are representing themselves in court not because they want to assert a bizarre political or religious ideology but because they have no choice.

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.

The archive includes all the court's records from 1804 to 1875, most of which involve, as the site itself describes it, «civil suits brought by ordinary men and women pursuing justice in disputes over debts, damages and broken promises.»

To bridge this knowledge - skills gap she conceived of the Wangari Maathai Institute, now constituted at the University of Nairobi — a place where academics could better connect with the communities they sought to transform, and ordinary men and women might learn how best to interact with the environment in a way that sustains their livelihoods and provides economic sustainability.

PY Clouin will be present during the screening of a 50 - minute program entitled Extra Ordinary Men curated by Stefan St - Laurent which features 21 of his videos from 1995 - 2008 during the Art Star Biennale in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 4, at 9 pm.

Stevovich's images depict ordinary men and women in everyday situations and locations — in restaurants and bars, at the beach, on public transportation — but their gestures and expressions confused the overall logic of the scene, creating a sense of mystery and allowing for a a variety of readings.

Since then he has also painted rap and sports stars but for the most part his attention has focused on ordinary men of color in their everyday clothes.

Considered one of the best welding artists in the world, Madero and his team work tirelessly to create the sculptures that highlight themes such as power, determination, and strength of ordinary men.

He begins the book with the build up toward war depicting its uniformed parades and pomp, and then slowly and subtly describes the unraveling of the heroic with a realistic view of battle as unglamorous actions performed by ordinary men.

Haunting portraits of ordinary men and last works describing his struggle with cancer express a rare humanity.

Ordinary Men, by Wilson Skomal For Wilson, John Carpenter's The Thing is a rewarding horror movie because it lacks heroes.

Call of Duty: WWII will take players to the front lines of war - torn Western Europe during one of history's greatest conflicts, where the stakes were high and the only thing standing in the way of Nazi oppression was a generation of ordinary men and women willing to make extraordinary sacrifices to preserve our way of life.

Urban parks act as simple but socially vital safety valves for ordinary men and women to release some of the pressures of daily life in the city - especially for those who find themselves living in treeless informal settlements or featureless tower blocks.

From the special advisor on Saving Private Ryan and the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D - Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D - Day until the end of the bitterest days of the war.

Someone has been turning ordinary men and women into puppets (à la The Manchurian Candidate), forcing them to commit murder and, then, to commit suicide.

Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the most shocking crimes....

In a sport like this — hard work, not much glory, but still popular in every century — well, there must be some beauty which ordinary men can't see, but extraordinary men do.

Mullen, P. H. Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory.

BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS tells the story of a motley group of ordinary men turned revolutionaries in an epic, action - packed, historical drama.

The film's viewpoint is that these ordinary men faced challenges and adversity their whole lives and rose to the occasion when it counted.

Another bizarre Channel 4 reality show, and in this one three former spies put 15 ordinary men and women through their paces to see if they have what it takes to make it in the real world of espionage.

Tom Hanks plays other ordinary men turned heroes in the movies Bridge of Spies, Captain Phillips and the Toy Story franchise.

Yes, he did those «Romancing the Stone» roles, and he's been more memorable as a villain («Wall Street»), but his strongest roles are as sinners: not big or bad enough to be villains, more ordinary men, smart, glib, conniving, trying to get by on short dues.

Directed by Mayank Sharma and produced by Vikram Malhotra, Breathe is a gritty psychological drama that follows the lives of ordinary men faced with extraordinary circumstances.

Just ordinary men thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.

It will be difficult for ordinary men to hold them.

In fact, there are a lot of ordinary men who landed up with insanely rich women.

Rich women running large enterprises are now looking to connect with ordinary men in order to have a life of contentment.

Well, we found that there are loads of attractive women that are actually tired of indulging with the «ordinary men» and certainly seek for a spectacular companion.

They were considered as being only a man's attire as they were the only ones who were seen to wear these jackets, be it ordinary men or western movie stars.

This is where celebrities are quite different from ordinary men.

The law on evidence in the courts has always been predicated on the fact that whereas ordinary men and women may be motivated either to lie or to fail to tell the whole truth, experts have no such motivation.

Scientific evidence was shown to be just as fallible as and no more robust than the evidence of ordinary men and women.

And to all the members of the Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council, all the PGs and members of the various town unions across Anambra State, all the Bishops, Reverend Fathers and Pastors, the members of the organized Labour, the youths of Anambra State, the traders, the farmers, the ordinary men and women who look up to government for a better day, I assure you that my team and I shall never fail you.

They are the ordinary men and women of this country who either vote Labour, or who used to, and the party needs them if it ever wants to govern again.

The path of criticism is a public way: the wrong headed are permitted to err therein... Justice is not a cloistered virtue: she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respect, even though outspoken, the comments of ordinary men.»

The Museum's reputation for helping people understand the experience of modern conflicts is unrivalled, and I'm confident that members of the public will be inspired and motivated by the exceptional courage of the ordinary men, women and children featured in the outstanding exhibition.»

But even as preliminary talks between the MDC and Zanu PF go ahead in South Africa, the killing, kidnap and torture of ordinary men and women, who have done nothing other than show their support for the opposition, continues.

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women... the Romans that History Forgot.

It is my husband and ordinary men like him who work tirelessly to provide for their families so their wives can stay home and nurture their children.

I was a fair swimmer, 100 - yard freestyle and relays, but those were bad times for ordinary men because we were up against a beast named Johnny Weissmueller and one named Arne Borg.

Now, just recently, John Day has attained a kind of uniqueness ordinary men can only dream about while reading the back panel of their box of breakfast Wheaties.

a method of torture that hadnt even been invented yet laid out in detail hundreds of years before it happened... unless you think that the ordinary men who had God's hand to write the bible could influence the roman government and ways of torture... then of course there's the resurrection..

Through the vicissitudes of human history it has encouraged ordinary men and women to become heroic followers of Christ when love might otherwise have died down in prevailing culture.

Unlike its equally murderous counterpart, Marxian socialism, fascism won power in the heart of Europe; it succeeded in gaining the uncoerced allegiance of ordinary men and women in a way Marxism never did.

For ordinary men it is an occasion of fear.

Jesus turned ordinary men into world - changers.