Sentences with phrase «ordinary people facing»

Once again, Tsukiyama brings us a powerfully moving story of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with grace and courage.

All are about ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges within their families and communities.

Garreau's last scenario, Prevail, extols the human knack for muddling through — «the ability of ordinary people facing overwhelming odds to rise to the occasion because it is the right thing.»

A strained marriage, a tipsy New Year's Eve party and a deadly road accident are but the opening gambit of «Midnighters,» a just - taut - enough thriller about ordinary people faced with extraordinary dilemmas.

Often these non-profit organizations have a better understanding of the difficulties that the ordinary person faces handling their finance.

Our skilled, versatile lawyers are fully committed to providing clients with innovative and effective legal counsel for the wide variety of daily issues that ordinary people face.

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The result: Men with money can abuse ordinary people and face no repercussions for their actions, beyond a few payouts here and there.

«And like other women, survivors of violence are faced with an economy that has become harder for ordinary people.

In good Aristotelian fashion, therefore, Lewis thinks of all the ordinary decisions of life as forming our character, as turning us into people who either do or do not wish to gaze forever upon the face of God.

These hardship faced by many ordinary people isn't something that can be solved with a few minor tweaks, it's an intrinsic aspect of the economic approach people like Martin and Parris advocate.

In response, Labour changed tack, focusing on the «cost of living crisis» facing ordinary people who don't yet feel the recovery.

Miliband has stood up to the power of the Murdoch press, he has stood up to the energy companies, he has set the public agenda over bankers bonuses, and over the cost of living crisis facing ordinary people.

Do we really want ordinary people to face great tax hikes or spending cuts just for the satisfaction of bashing the rich?

Through its campaigning and negotiating — ordinary people brought face to face with politicians and businessmen with «testimonies» about how they live their lives — the organisation was successful in getting Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, to back a living wage in the capital, and to persuade the current mayor, Boris Johnson, to maintain it.

The governor said it was sad that while people were still facing the heat of the economic recession with foodstuffs and drugs out of the reach of ordinary Nigerians, the President was only concerned with settling his party members.

Voters also felt Gordon Brown best understands the problems faced by ordinary people during the difficult economic times, with 27 per cent of votes compared to 18 per cent for David Cameron.

It's one of the biggest problems facing ordinary working people in Britain today.

Britain could face more «social disturbance and dislocation» if Westminster parties continue to ignore the views of ordinary people, the director of the People's Pledge campaign has told politics.people, the director of the People's Pledge campaign has told politics.People's Pledge campaign has told politics.co.uk.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

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It is a way to escape from a boring every day life, from problems that a person may face during his / her ordinary life.

Taken at face value, it's insulting and rather tone - deaf to the valid concerns of ordinary, working - class people.

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.

Instead, I am intrigued by the choices faced by ordinary people as they try to add meaning to their lives.

Many children are victimized and they need to be protected not only by the government, but also by the ordinary people who face this problem every day and it does not depend on either their position in the society or level of life or their age, habits, sex and religion.Therefore, to know this problem better and try to find Continue reading

While most people are likely to think of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as the agency that fines big banks for large - scale offenses, the bureau also handles ordinary day - to - day problems facing consumers.

Even in the face of what seems like impossible odds, ordinary people everywhere are standing up and fighting every major fossil fuel project in the U.S..

On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every development finance institution: how to design and operate a large - scale fund that actually meets the needs of ordinary people in developing countries in an ecologically sustainable...

In her lively, invigorating speaking events, Ms. Sun connects the dots between the issues we face, relates stories from historic nonviolent struggles, covers groundbreaking new understandings of nonviolent struggles, and brings a pertinent and timely message to youth, elders, students, and ordinary, extraordinary people everywhere!

But it is her personal integrity in the face of endemic bribery and her belief that ordinary people have the power to make change that has made her a hero among Georgian citizens.

Considering many factors, including Detective Sergeant Van Allen's high public profile, the rules and normal vetting practices by lawyers and judges concerning Expert Witnesses, and the fact that Van Allen's affidavit and redacted invoices were clearly suspect on their face to any ordinary person let alone lawyers and judges, it is unbelievable that nobody in that courtroom knew the truth about Van Allen or otherwise cared to find out.»

The tendering round «would have translated into thousands of people facing grave difficulty in obtaining justice — ordinary people who are already facing extraordinary difficulties,» she said.

This issue has received next to no public attention, as far as I can tell, but has considerable impact on ordinary people who are faced with large legal bills.

Facebook's battle is really about taking its head out of the sand, facing up to the reality that people are trying to manipulate the platform in turn to manipulate users, and effectively proving to the masses that it really has the ordinary user's interests — their privacy and safety — at heart.