Sentences with phrase «ordinary people the idea»

But among ordinary people the idea of modern heaven never «declined» in the same way.

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Here's the story of ordinary people who fell into big ideas and took them all the way to the bank.

But the idea of a central place where ordinary citizens can submit news has been overtaken by the social web — that's effectively the way millions of people already use Twitter, for example.

That means that ordinary people got rich because they had the courage to follow up on their ideas.

Are «ordinary» people capable of coming up with ideas for products and services that will change the world?

«Our idea was to show that ordinary people do have extraordinary ideas,» says Cable.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

In fact, it took more than 200 years for Milton's ideas to permeate the thinking and behavior of ordinary people.

The idea behind faith - based organizing is that the agents and beneficiaries of change should be the same people — ordinary people empowered to become effective and articulate actors on the public stage.

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.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

And there is considerable evidence that the ideas of one person can have effects on another that can not be explained by ordinary physical mediation.

The Catholic Church was eager to tell a positive story about the Church's role during the war, and the State of Israel was eager to promote the idea of righteous gentiles and tell stories of right - minded ordinary people who helped to save ordinary Jews.

In practice, the idea that marriage was the remedium concupiscentiae seemed to suggest to many - ordinary people and pastors - that concupiscence in marriage could be given way to quite freely.

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.

If this ignorance is prevalent among the leaders of popular opinion, and I believe it is, we can not be surprised that most ordinary people have no idea what Christianity is all about.

UKIP have made a lot of this, the idea that established politics is London - based and hates ordinary people who don't live in London.

I was listening now to Milburn about getting more pupils into better jobs like doctors lawyers, he said a great idea is the Army Cadets, not the one the dirty little poor join, but the army officer cadet force, training officers for the future, once labour says anything about helping ordinary people they ruin it by looking toward the USA new labour has a serious problem with the UK being the UK it should be the USA.

«No personal abuse, no personal slanging matches, just serious political ideas to improve the lives of ordinary people in Britain.»

The Democrats say what one part of the electorate wants to hear, the Republicans say what another part wants to hear (pro-church, against «liberal» ideas such as evolution and climate change), but finally the difference for ordinary people is marginal.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.

Dr. Frank says he came up with the idea for the series because he «wanted to expose people to the idea of sustainable wellness — that ordinary things like music, movement, and yoga have an extraordinary healing power.»

If you are the sort of person that is bored with the same old date ideas and options, you need to look into doing something a little bit out of the ordinary.

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.

The premise of the original short story is that an ordinary man escapes into his imagination to get away from the mundane experiences in everyday life — and honestly, at a time when unemployment is rampant and wealth disparity is so enormous, that's an idea that could be amazingly resonant to many people.

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

The reason behind its success is largely, that it empowers people to new things, projects that were left to the «professionals» so far, even though ordinary people have creative ideas and inspired opinions to add, if only they can take action themselves.

From one side to make up an idea and then to imagine the entire topic is not that hard but on the other hand — imagination is connected with brain activity which aims absolutely different targets from those ordinary people usually think about.

Some people get the idea that you have ordinary income if your gain is greater than $ 100,000.

The thing is that the way that we've approached the shooter and RPG aspects is really to blend them together and if people never play the game they might get the idea that it's just another generic shooter but as soon as they actually pick it up and play it and start to see what we've done with the RPG elements and how well the shooter elements work and how all these things play together, they're going to realize that this isn't your ordinary shooter game.

It's not my job to tell people what to think nor is it my job to presume to rattle their world with huge ideas or issues, but rather, through something that is just a bit out of the ordinary show them perhaps the most interesting thing that they have seen that day.

Through ordinary objects salvaged from the activities of everyday life — empty bottles, washboards, children's toys, and mirrors — Saar reminds us that people can be imprisoned just as surely, just as securely, by desires, stories, and ideas as by stone walls and iron bars.»

In the same way that Gustave Courbet's work challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a heroic scale, Wheat seeks to reapply the idea of the large - scale tapestry, hung primarily behind royal thrones and used as symbols of authority during medieval times, by re-contextualizing their use and imagery.

For any overpaid advertizing creative types on here try this as an idea for a focus group Being preached to and lectured at dosent make people concerned or thoughtfull and it dosent help sell your product Ordinary people trust me just find it irratating and condesending The great British public are more concerned about keeping their jobs and the recession than Climate Change real or not

By quantifying the benefits of Australian and associated international action, research can give the ordinary person a better idea of what's in the package.

You didn't ask me if I used the term scientifically or in a way that ordinary people do (I referred to Bob's ideas as theory too!).

At the same time, thinking about ethics only in terms of ordinary morality, of the general idea of what it means to be a good person, is also insufficient.

are programs that made efforts to incorporate «ordinary lay people» (not celibates and not clerics) into the educational model and even developed some ideas about «peer to peer ministry» and «witness.»