Sentences with phrase «way ordinary people»

And, unsurprisingly, he challenged the exclusive use of traditional sources, such as state - enacted law and appellate court decisions, in teaching materials, quipping, «what effect, if any, do appellate decisions have on the way ordinary people live their lives»?

The central theme of Aaron Guzikowski's script is retribution, in particular the irony of the way ordinary people are blinded by rage and in times of grief become as immoral as the initial perpetrators.

Summary: The central theme of Aaron Guzikowski's script is retribution, in particular the irony of the way ordinary people are blinded by rage and in times of grief become as immoral as the initial perpetrators

Given the fact that rich men and rich women only visit places that are secluded, there was no way the ordinary people could connect with them with ease.

The images captured are real people moving the way any ordinary person would.

But they aren't special — they are ordinary people, likely to respond in the ways ordinary people do to the circumstances in which they find themselves.

Not exact matches

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.

«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

Meanwhile, millions of ordinary people will have an easy new way to buy the digital currency.

It's maybe one reason why people are so easily misled into climate change denial when there don't seem to be any definitive and reliable sources of data that are open to the public where information is presented in various different ways that most ordinary people are interested in.

James goes into detail about his book, the amazing stories from his personal interviews with ordinary people with extraordinary achievements, and some ways of acquiring knowledge and applying it to your life and start winning yourself.

Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

TONY CAMPOLO: This new group of young people that you sometimes call «ordinary radicals» includes some who are living in the intentional community called the Simple Way.

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

There are all sorts of ways even ordinary people can BS a «resurrection» — and besides, Lazarus was raised from the dead, and no one claims he was divine.

«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.»

But the way it has done that — with the rhetoric of «We, the scholars, will tell you, the ordinary people, the truth» — has been singularly unhelpful.

Now I think the mainline churches are going to have their turn on the electronic stage as two - way communication becomes increasingly possible on radio and TV, and as cable TV and videotape enable ordinary people to make more use of, and to regain some control over, electronic communications.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

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.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.

I love the way that the finest and noblest doctrines relating to our salvation are preached to ordinary people who have pretty ordinary needs.

As many people know, St Thomas Aquinas stated that one could demonstrate the existence of God in five different ways, starting from five different features of the ordinary world around us.

ordinary people, even good ones, can be seduced, recruited, initiated into behaving in evil ways under the sway of powerful systemic and situational forces (p. 443)

At any rate, among such people as David Burrell, Stephen Crites, Samuel McClendon, Donald and Walter Capps, James Wiggins, John Dunne and, in a different way, Richard R. Niebuhr and William Lynch, it is a concern with concrete, ordinary experience that for some has meant a renewed interest in religious autobiography — Paul's letters, Augustine's Confessions, John Woolman's Journal, Kierkegaard's writings, the theological work of Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers, Dorothy Day's autobiography and so on.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Folklore, of course, consists of micro-traditions passed down within communities as part of the ordinary ways of life of the people in those communities.

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.

That is to say, supernaturalism to many people means that this cosmos is a kind of duplex apartment: downstairs the ordinary course of procedure goes on its customary way, but ever and again from upstairs something comes down to break up the ordinary procedure on the main floor.

Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives:

But I would appeal to any scientist who happens to be reading this book to think seriously that people such as poets, artists of every kind, mystics and indeed ordinary people of faith may be receiving truth in an entirely different way from that to which he is accustomed.

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.

Ordinary people have stepped up in great ways, donating their time, money and talents toward helping those less fortunate.

Thought also needs to be given to the ways in which globalism disenfranchises ordinary people and empowers the technocratic elite.

Their goal was to help ordinary people become more observant of the law (both written and oral) as a way of affirming or reinforcing their Jewish identity.

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

When I asked a community worker in Cape Town's squatter camps what ordinary people were saying about AIDS, she replied, «They think it's a way for people to get jobs.»

But Luther's protest was the first to divide the dominant culture in such a way as to make ordinary conformist people think about what true Christianity was.

Ordinary people, even good ones, can be seduced, recruited, initiated into behaving in evil ways under the sway of powerful systemic and situational forces.

«to me, the good news is that Jesus is alive and well flowing through average, ordinary people who reflect the image of God in all kinds of wild and beautiful ways.

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

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.

«If we want people from ordinary backgrounds to get involved in politics then the need to be paid fairly for the work they do but in a way that is transparent and clear to voters.

Before I go any farther, let me clarify that I'm a big fan of people - powered politics: if you look back at the last 17 months of articles on e.politics, you'll find plenty that celebrate the power of digital networks to allow ordinary people to upset the political applecart in ways previously unimaginable.

Yet he has the same ability as Thatcher and Tebbitt to talk to ordinary people in a way that is both powerful and persuasive about difficult issues that really matter.

«They want a party which is on the side of ordinary working people, which will respect the way they voted in the (EU) referendum and which will build a country that represents everyone.

«The way that trade unions, including the ITU, are treated, and whether they are permitted to operate freely and independently without government interference provides a critical measure of progress of the conditions that exist for 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.