Sentences with phrase «seeing ordinary people»

Seeing these ordinary people treated as icons, and learning their stories, is a surprisingly touching experience.

There is undoubtedly something satisfying in seeing ordinary people stand up to progressive élites overly attached to their cosmopolitan dreams.

What drives him is undoubtedly the same desire to see ordinary people connect with God that led him to start the church 15 years ago.

And Progress is an organisation of people who want that, who want to see ordinary people in Britain and frankly right around the world do better than they are now.»

The first time I saw Ordinary People, I remember thinking it was very good, very sad, and very WASPy, and that the acting was outstanding across the board.

I think the inherent appeal to these types of films is that we all love to see the chaos and destruction, but deep down we all really love to see ordinary people do extraordinary things.

DMPs are often run on a non-profit basis through a consumer credit counseling service, and have no motivation other than wanting to see ordinary people get out of debt.

So it's deliriously inspiring to see ordinary people, regardless of age, race and creed come together to demand for something that will actually work.

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He sees the new payment options as a victory for ordinary people.

It's all too easy to see how we may become a country in which the big rewards are reserved for people with the right connections; in which ordinary people see little hope of advancement; in which political involvement seems pointless, because in the end the interests of the elite always get served.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful... Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days.

Sadly, I've seen how the Fox church people treat compassionate Christian moderates on an ordinary day, so it won't be too much of a fight.

Now if we turn from the life of Christ to our ordinary experience of people, most of us would probably agree that there are certain types of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out of their self - love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive love is trying to do.

The ones I've seen have happened in the most profound places in the most ordinary people.

Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

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).

By seeing these, many intellectual people melted away into society, became artisans and instructors and spread Christianity through the villages by instructing ordinary people.

I see him in the masses of ordinary people in the mall, going about their shopping.

This is our hope and prayer for all the young people who experience Explore — that they may see through the ordinary life - experience of couples, the extraordinary Christ - centred fidelity of spouses, shaped and refined by the beauty of a lifetime of love and commitment.

Now it's celebrated as a sacred right that demands veneration from the whole culture, including the millions of ordinary people who see this kind of officially blessed homicide as a gravely evil act.

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.

Pilgrimage breaks the rhythms of ordinary life, calls people out of their normal surroundings, invites them to gather with people of distant tribes who they don't see regularly and to experience the most transfigurative experience imaginable: meeting with the living God, suggests author Dr. Todd Johnson, a professor and theology scholar.

The exercise is intended to help people to see the familiar in new contexts, by juxtaposing the ordinary familiar meanings with novel associations: thus Camel filters are juxtaposed with the rich man who wanted to get into the kingdom of heaven, and the ad reads: «This is the one to try.»

Every time a person can see, even if only ironically and ambiguously, the events of his or her social and personal life illuminated by some aspect of the life and death of Jesus, then parabolic understanding is taking place, the ordinary is seen in a new context.

It's the same problem that sees people waiting for the end of Ronaldo's run, arguing that eventually he will follow the career trajectory of an ordinary player.

But those ordinary people often see their lives altered in negative ways.

Secondly Keown doesn't pay the extortionate prices that ordinary people pay to see Wenger screw it up every year.

I have seen the frustrations of local people - and those of ordinary police officers.

This not only makes politics unnecessarily poisonous but puts off ordinary people when they see politics descending into farce.

It is exactly the same message as that seen in Clegg's speech to his party's autumn conference in Glasgow: only the Liberal Democrats can be trusted to both provide fairness to ordinary people and deliver on economic trustworthiness.

If the victim has children, they should automatically be classed as having priority need, if not they must be seen as being more vulnerable through being homeless than an ordinary person.

But, as we can see from the facts about wealth inequality noted above, the implied community of interest among all «citizens» and «ordinary people», contrasted with the faceless villains of «corporations and financial markets», is a gross simplification.

He's saying that Labour needs to be seen as more than this if it's going to re-engage ordinary working people.

This vicious cycle repeats until people see that everything has turned to shit, there's no point in trying to be productive, and there's no future for ordinary folks in the country, etc..

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

If you've just landed from the Planet Ordinary Person and haven't been following all this, just take a read of the developments below and you'll see why the answer is a definite «no».

Voters are much more likely to see Labour as the party that understands and cares about ordinary people.

Yet being interested in kickball — and being seen to be interested in it by tweeting all day long each Saturday — seems these days to be how MPs attempt to convince the public that they're just ordinary people after all.

«When a big bank or car company goes bankrupt, it gets bailed out, but no one seems to be bailing out the ordinary people who are losing their jobs and seeing their savings diminished.»

«Within the Pre-Budget Report we want to see urgent action to keep ordinary people in their jobs and homes.

They need to be seen as credible, competent, trustworthy and in touch with ordinary people's concerns.

Firstly, he has to come up with an initiative which will be seen as fair to the ordinary person trying to get on in life or the «striver» (a word that I object to — when was the last time you heard someone in the pub use it?).

Prof. Mills said he saw in his former student as «someone who will work for the ordinary people of this country, not the powerful with a high sense of social justice, fairness, and above all truthfulness.

Light hearted as the interaction was here I saw a clear and warm embrace of President Mahama's government by people who elites in Accra would consider remote and ordinary.

The Conservative campaign started with a promise to champion ordinary people's concerns - David Cameron's «Great Ignored» - and it's clear to see why.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

People don't see her as in touch with ordinary people (29 % do, 40 % do not) but that is probably because she is still a Conservative; David Cameron's ratings on being in touch were poor throughout his premiePeople don't see her as in touch with ordinary people (29 % do, 40 % do not) but that is probably because she is still a Conservative; David Cameron's ratings on being in touch were poor throughout his premiepeople (29 % do, 40 % do not) but that is probably because she is still a Conservative; David Cameron's ratings on being in touch were poor throughout his premiership.

«This is one of the best ways to energize the party that is almost remaining dormant at the grassroots level and you could see the sense of belonging and the energy and activities of the ordinary people.

I believe that the everyday petty and oppressive corrupt practices that blight the lives of ordinary Ghanaians will disappear if high government officials are seen to be persons of integrity.