Sentences with phrase «than an ordinary person»

«The Liberals watched for two years as the cost of housing skyrocketed out of reach for families, because they cared more about helping their developer friends than ordinary people.

Already many of us — in, for example, our quickly progressing knowledge of risk factors — are learning how to stay around a long longer than the ordinary persons of the past.

No more shock over the fact of mortality and no more self - promotion into an elite band of thinkers and seers, just an occasional shiver when alone and undistracted, plus a routine conviction that I was more educated and clear - sighted than ordinary people.

Experts are certified chiefly by having been wrong more often than ordinary people.

Every member of the Duggar family (Yes, those Duggars) has to follow more rules than ordinary people follow.

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.

«The government is continuing with failed economic policies which serve City bankers and tax - dodging corporations like Starbucks, Amazon and Google, rather than ordinary people.»

The car is for ordinary people, not for racing drivers who are expected to be aware of many more parameters than ordinary people.

Investigators assume that brave men are naturally more optimistic than ordinary people - it helps them see instant dangers and point out favorable opportunities.

I have written about business interests who have more privileged access to politics than ordinary people in this very post.

Fast Track is a danger because it would delegate the constitutional authority of Congress to make trade policy to a U.S. Trade Representative who, by background and mindset, responds to financiers and corporate chieftains rather than ordinary people.

That put you in a much better risk than ordinary people your age, comprehend that you will have to pay a lot for the satisfaction of getting cheap life insurance elderly protection.

His lies are both more frequent and more malicious than ordinary people's.

[Quick Update: The actual tagline goes like this - «Want to see farther than ordinary people?

Now, in addition to that, the company also shared the following tagline: «Want to see farther than ordinary people?

Not exact matches

According to new research from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, when people seek out extraordinary experiences like vacationing in exotic locales, those who had the experience enjoyed that their adventures were superior to ones their peers had, but during subsequent social interactions the adventurer ultimately felt excluded and worse off than they would have felt if they had an ordinary experience like everyone else.

«Since the publication of this story, we've observed and heard from worried activists, journalists and ordinary people who use WhatsApp, who tell us that people are switching to SMS and Facebook Messenger, among other options - many services that are strictly less secure than WhatsApp.»

Quiet, soft - featured, and ordinary looking, he is the kind of person who can get lost in a roomful of people and who seems to take up less space than his large frame would suggest.

As a result, the interior of the institute looks less like a lab than like an ordinary Flatiron - district office: casually dressed people sitting all day at desks, staring at screens, under high ceilings.

The Internet has given ordinary people more power than ever before.

«In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people and the middle class, rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class,» he told This Week's George Stephanopolous in May.

During his tenure in Chongqing, Wang urged local media to focus more on ordinary people rather than municipal officials in their coverage.

Nowhere has the phenomenon of ordinary people buying virtual currencies been more visible than in South Korea, where several exchanges have storefronts to help new customers.

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For short - term capital gains — for assets held for less than a year — people pay taxes at the same rate as they do on their ordinary income.

This should be straightened up by a pious monarch who is more concerned for the ordinary people than for the rich power elite.

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

It was also a nation in which the government, more often than not, served the interests of the privileged and ignored the aspirations of ordinary people.

Even if the global government is far more subject to the will of the world's people than are transnational corporations, it is very far removed from ordinary people.

But the ordinary person had to keep fixed in mind that the Syllabus lists liberal theses rather than Catholic doctrines, and then had to go in search of just the right negation.

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

The claim of my nonpacifist colleagues that the system they are using is more socially responsible, more understandable to ordinary people, more culturally accessible to people of other value communities, more able to manage with discrimination the factual data of political decisions, than is my testimony to Jesus» words and work, still has the burden of proof.

That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]-RRB-.

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.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

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.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

The ordinary members of the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches have a far less authoritarian mentality than Catholics, a far more widespread and lively sense of the richness of their traditions of prayer and practice, and a far more secure sense of ownership by the people of the symbols which provide continuity with the Christian past and guidance to its future.

In the ordinary sense we have more «Government» than ever, i.e., massively expensive regulatory bureaucracies micromanaging ever more details of people's lives and livelihoods.

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.»

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

You sound so foolish quoting an old book as if it were something other than the words of ordinary people.

«As she rushes about spitting on those who under ordinary circumstances would almost choose death rather than to suffer such pollution from a Madiga, she breaks into wild, exulting songs, telling of the humiliation to which she is subjecting the proud caste people.

The ability of ordinary people to participate in important decisions at this level is incomparably greater than their ability to participate in global government.

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.

Therefore, one might predict that people deprived of ordinary sensory input will detect the presence of other people in a room more reliably than they detect the presence of aggregates such as a piece of furniture.

At Elevation, we are more than just a beer company, we are a family, a community, and a collective of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The Football Club was once a beacon of local identity and community; the peoples game now its all about big money, global markets and foreign ownership as club names and colours are changed to satisfy markets other than traditional supporters and ordinary supporters are marginalised and priced out of watching their local club.

You say you're also a ref, so letting your incorrect comments go unchallenged could twist the truth more as people are bound to pay a lot more attention to what a ref has to say than an ordinary fan (though it shouldn't necessarily follow as there are some refs who are terrible, like dean)

The way that we beat terrorism is by staying strong, dusting ourselves down and moving on, rather than this populist move to capitalise on the goodwill of ordinary people.