Sentences with phrase «very ordinary children»

I'm a very ordinary children's writer.

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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).

«But I think we have been very open as a government that it is right that people at the top who earn much more than people with average incomes should be asked to make an extra sacrifice and that it is justifiable to say that people at the top don't receive child benefit in the way people do on ordinary incomes.

Despite the scary monster, this has children's tale written all over it, and unless you're ready to succumb to a temporary state of ignorance, you'll find it's very hard to enjoy the flick without constantly inquiring how objects from the extraordinary can interact with those from the ordinary.

But even very young children can learn basic skills for staying safe in ordinary situations and preparing for emergencies.

My right hon. Friend is speaking powerfully about the opportunities that grammar schools provide to children from very ordinary backgrounds.

Over sixty years later two unique children from very different backgrounds discover they have abilities far beyond the ordinary.

Other times, ordinary events that may not appear overwhelming from an adult's perspective can be very frightening for a child.

A point of consensus among researchers in the field is that families of children with ID face adversity, or in the very least, significant, out - of - the - ordinary adaptive challenges.