Sentences with phrase «ordinary people making»

Ordinary people making an extraordinary impact.

Unlike other groups within Labour we don't have any wealthy donors or institutions bankrolling our operations — just ordinary people making donations.

Although the debate was abused by some Members (Labour's Clive Efford, for example: «Only if ordinary people make a stand will we stop these rich people — rich people who have invaded the lives of ordinary people in the street — making themselves even richer and even more powerful.»)

I did not feel for the guy in the slightest and he was just an ordinary person making an ass out of himself.

It's a tempting idea for an action picture, given the noble impulses that led to the war and the sacrifices many ordinary people made to win their independence.

Not exact matches

Russ Baker is an award - winning investigative reporter with a track record for making sense of complex and little understood matters - and explaining it to elites and ordinary people alike, using entertaining, accessible writing to inform and involve.

The average person rarely considers how ordinary things can be made better or improved — those with the entrepreneurial spirit can't help themselves.

Drugs that make ordinary people smarter could be commonplace within 10 years.

They're determined to make sure that ordinary people can save money through the power of couponing.

It is these entrepreneurs who are too high risk and too small for mainstream investors, but not for ordinary people like you and I. Here, crowd investing is showing that a profit can be made on this market, and larger investors are opening their eyes and ears to these opportunities.

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What makes people lose their cool is comparing the wealth building in that plan with what an ordinary RRSP saver can achieve.

Secret Millionaire Society is yet another binary options trading software system that claims it can make ordinary people millionaires in just days.

They make people think that only the Religious leaders know what is and this is the misleading as ordinary people can know what God Is.

Like popular movements of the past, Trumpism was made possible by a political climate in which — as Lasch put it over forty years ago — our «parties no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people,» while the «political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies.»

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

In our ordinary language, justice is applicable to the relations among persons and the societies made up of persons.

My parents — an ordinary couple — made a deliberate decision, intent on getting to know the people around them from more than a polite distance.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

It is dangerous to pile up examples of persons who have made of an ordinary place or a run - of - the - mill office an opportunity for extraordinary service to God and to humanity.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

They forgot that they were all creatures of God, who chose to seek welcome in the midst of an unsettled country, to build a dwelling place with the lives of ordinary people, to make whole the earth by seeding it with heaven.

One concern often heard is that if the name «Saint Gilbert» had appeared on his books, Chesterton never would have attracted as many readers — or as many converts — as he has: It is precisely his approachability as an ordinary person, they say, which has won so many people over to his side; making a him a saint could risk that.

Now I think the mainline churches are going to have their turn on the electronic stage as two - way communication becomes increasingly possible on radio and TV, and as cable TV and videotape enable ordinary people to make more use of, and to regain some control over, electronic communications.

In making this abridgement of a devotional work by Kuyper first published in the U.S. in 1918, James Schaap, professor of literature at Dordt College in Iowa, has adapted Kuyper's daily meditations by trying «to deliver the essential Kuyper to the ordinary people he respected.»

That order is made up of priests who have left the Catholic Church behind and now live ordinary lives just ministering to the people without judgment and without inflicting fear upon them.

These signs are made by ordinary people from elements of everyday life.

Most people are ruled by ordinary desires, like the desire to make the make their families healthy and safe.

To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

Ordinary theism has made God a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind.

Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.

Sharing a meal is not something new to Christians, but making an intentional effort to share a meal with persons from a different community or perspective may be something out of the ordinary.

The authors are clearly aware that the subject matter is complex and have tried to make this a book for «the ordinary person in the pew», with simplified explanations and summaries at the end of each chapter.

Unfortunately, people like ISIS have taken this God - driven exclusion to its logical conclusion, and it doesn't make the ordinary religious people look good in this day and age.

When Christians develop their own private language for one another, they forget how Jesus made faith accessible to ordinary people, he says.

Making the Bible available in all Protestant parish churches in the language of the people increased the desire of ordinary people to become literate so that they could read it for themselves.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

> Mr. Picannon: The faith in the wisdom of ordinary people is exactly what makes the Consti - tution imcomplete and crude.

According to this analysis, those in the ruling class develop and maintain information and ideas that justify their status, and they do it in ways that make it difficult for ordinary people to recognize that they are being exploited and victimized.

Crooker, «It would have made a wonderful difference in the ministry of penance to ordinary, good people struggling with human weakness: the discipline of regular confession, instead of falling into general disuse, would have found fresh vitality and fruitfulness.»

If you are mid-years couple with an open, growing relationship, a love for people and an interest in helping make ordinary marriages and good marriages better, why not consider getting trained to lead marriage enrichment experiences?

Today's cultural elites promote a nonjudgmental ethos that often makes ordinary people embarrassed to express strong moral views.

Their argument is that, to put it in Lincoln's language, «if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.»

The regularity of the particular pattern of nature before us and the weakness of persons who fail to exercise the options before them make it possible for philosophers and ordinary people to fail to see that freedom is the primary attribute of Being - itself.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Or, even in us ordinary mortals, the sense of duty which made Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn say that conscience «takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides» — that is not simple.

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.