Sentences with phrase «very ordinary people»

We are very ordinary people and we have no financial backing.

All the above monsters were very ordinary people (like any atheists over here) before they became devils.

They were to all appearances very ordinary people, usually devoutly religious people, who knew that some things must not be done and who put their lives in the way of the doing of such things.

«I'm a very ordinary person and not «spiritual,»» she said, «but I feel like the Lord spoke to me through Psalm 37, «Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.»

«The Queen» (2006) is a movie in which Helen Mirren, a British actress of limitless skills, often seen as a very ordinary person, plays the Queen of England.

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I think our board, although unusual amongst other boards, there are very few if any other central banks that have this kind of a board, but in our country, for this kind of filter to be applied to the decision process, I think adds to the credibility, to the legitimacy that the whole process has in the eyes of ordinary people and that's very important.

The minimum trade he re starts with the lowest amount of $ 250 which is not very high for the ordinary person to try binary options trading and become a part of it.

It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.

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.

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).

Something like that is the point of Lewis's sermon «Learning in War - Time,» a sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 1939 — when people in England had a genuine crisis, very much out of the ordinary, on their hands.

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).

At the very least please take the reference to him off your home page — his contribution, (ill informed rants), to the daily living of ordinary people does not warrant that degree of validation, attention or publicity.

And, really, this concept that some scripture is not meant for authority but only for individuals... well, back when it was written there was very little «individuality» and those in authority are... wait for it... «ordinary people»... at least, they're supposed to be!

Then historians, theologians, other scholars, amid ordinary people would still have very useful analytical tools for thinking about certain fundamental issues.

Teens used to be discipled by people with ordinary jobs in the ordinary world, now they are increasingly being discipled by church - paid workers in jobs that very few of them will do.

Jesus left ordinary people dazzled, amazed, and grateful; he left powerful people angry and upset, because very time he performed a wonder, they lost a little of their clout.

There are very few ordinary Christian people who are familiar with the Second Letter of Peter and the Letter of Jude.

Probably because they were writing for a very definite purpose, to get a message across to people, most of whom were not the highly educated or the cultured folk of the time, but ordinary people who would understand it thus as they would not a more elevated style of writing.

They may also, some of them, want to win for the very people that are protesting, the ordinary Brazilians who, it seems safe to assume, would quite like to watch their football team lifting the World Cup.

I know that for a lot of people birth seems like this magical process (or at least seems like it ought to be) but all these people are losing sight of the fact that it's really a very ordinary thing.

Apart from anything else, the Commons is a very intimidating building designed to make the ordinary person seem insignificant, and to boost the self - importance of its custodians.

These people have very little understanding of what it's like to control a class of unruly teenagers, run a small business, deal with personnel management issues or directly tackle any one of the thousands of other issues that the rest of us in the real world deal with in our ordinary everyday lives.

This is the very process Chris Grayling wants to restrict, to prevent ordinary people having the right to hold the state to account.

Leave aside the Tories» spectacularly inept handling of statistics (most people I know have very little trust in any statistics whatever, wherever they come from), the fact is that the narrative chimes with the public because it seems to support the common experience of ordinary people - whatever the Economist may say.

This might just be the working man's Budget: a potpourri (that's not very working man's) Bombay Mix of policies which will appeal to those distant creatures, Ordinary People.

«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.

But no matter where she chose to park her tanks, it's now clear that their guns are pointed at the very «ordinary working class people» she entered Downing Street promising to protect.

Their experience and understanding helps ensure we have the very best policies, policies that matter to ordinary people.

He counterposed the «powerful interests» and the very wealthy with ordinary «working people» who are confronted with falling living standards and unequal opportunities.

I want it to be very ordinary for people to say, «I'm not sure about this, so I'll replicate it,» and for that to be a compliment, not a threat.

«When I am looking for a postdoc, I put a starting salary for this kind of job 3 to 4 degrees higher than for ordinary mathematics postdocs, because I know it's going to be very difficult to find good people,» says Stark.

What appears utterly extraordinary at first — sending someone correct predictions of the winners of six races — seems very ordinary as soon as you understand that thousands of people got wrong predictions.

But at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which held its own briefing an hour before WHO, Angus Nicoll, head of the agency's influenza program, said he was seeing «something that looks more like an ordinary influenza, with a lot of people infected, but very few people being sick enough to end up in hospital or die.»

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

It's very confusing going through the comments section, too, along with processing the video as an ordinary every - day person who hasn't really heavily researched nutrition.

Because we believe that liquid liner, cat - eyes, winged flicks, and every other synonym for very kick - ass eyes deserve to be worn by ordinary people who are not professional makeup artists or 14 - year - old YouTube stars.

The gift of putting things together that are out of the ordinary, or that not very many people would think they would go together.

If you're a young person, you probably don't find interracial dating or marriage to be very out of the ordinary.

Even if you are prepared of dating again, it is very comforting and can assist in building your confidence by viewing the profiles of the single people with herpes who are entertaining, adorable, and presumably more honest compared to people in ordinary dating websites.

There are a lot of people who are very shy in ordinary life to get acquainted with a person they like.

It is very likely that ordinary people fail to understand what you are going through.

The way bikers date is already very different from ordinary people, but there are also things you can do to make your first date with a biker the most memorable one yet.

● Accept bisexual woman's girlfriends Dating with a bisexual woman is very different from general dating, ordinary dating are between two persons, woman - woman, man - man or woman - man, but if you are man seeking other bi women, you should know, she maybe also have a girlfriend.

Florida, USA About Blog I am an ordinary, not - so - special person who God chose to bless with a very special, extraordinary son.

I loved how he took the tropes of your standard revenge thriller, but made his protagonist a perfectly ordinary person, scared of — and not very good at — violence and pulled into a situation he clearly didn't want to be in.

Tilda Swinton makes for a terrifically affable Ancient One, while Rachel McAdams shines as an «ordinary» person finding herself at the centre of some very abnormal goings on.

I know it's about Donald Sutherland but my favorite part about Ordinary People is a very young and lovely Elizabeth McGovern.

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.

The small group curriculum model has changed very little since Saddleback Church introduced the HOST small group ministry concept in 2001: ordinary people with HEARTS for unconnected people to OPEN their homes, SERVE a few refreshments, and TURN on the VCR.