Sentences with phrase «whereas ordinary men»

The law on evidence in the courts has always been predicated on the fact that whereas ordinary men and women may be motivated either to lie or to fail to tell the whole truth, experts have no such motivation.

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Whereas once it was assumed that a man with an ordinary job could support his wife and children, now the standard is two incomes.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»