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How to use the word ordinary in a Sentence? Page #11

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Economic growth? For the average citizen it is hardly perceptible, they create good living conditions for some social groups who have their businesses, and not for ordinary citizens.

Zbigniew Pela

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Economic growth? For the average citizen it is hardly perceptible, they create good living conditions for some social groups, who have their businesses, and not for ordinary citizens.

Zbigniew Pela

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is no possibility of the disease spreading to ordinary people although it is possible to have additional cases among those who contacted the patient and have been isolated.

Kim Young-taek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not all the people would blame the Copts, but many ordinary Egyptians have strong thoughts toward the Coptic community.

Mina Thabet

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The system should not place wealthy donors with private companies at an advantage compared with ordinary taxpayers who pay out of post-tax income.

Alistair Graham

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

Phil Robertson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

Phil Robertson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

So to everyone who, like me, wants this election to herald the real and positive change that will make life better for ordinary people across these islands, I hold out a hand of friendship, the SNP if we are given the chance will be your allies in making that change.

Nicola Sturgeon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I suspect her message will be based on the values and priorities of the middle class -- asking people who will be more likely to make the system work for ordinary Americans. That's where her experience comes in.

Paul Begala

Found on CNN
9 years ago

All my family were Labour Party supporters, my dad was and so was my granddad, but where has it got us? Labour has had 80 years to stand up for Scotland but the only time they are interested in what ordinary people have to say is during an election when they take our support for granted. Well, they're not getting my vote this time.

Michael Paterson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Labour doesn't look out for ordinary people anymore.

Michael Paterson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the sanctions continue, they mostly hit the ordinary population, not the elite, inflation is a tax on the poor, most of all.

Evgeny Gontmakher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Ordinary citizens are wondering how so many countries gathered here together, who call themselves the 'United Nations,' have so far been unable to tackle terrorism and eradicate it.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm going to celebrate him, and I'm going to celebrate everything that he represented about the celebration of life and the love of pushing life to its edge because there are individuals on this planet that can't live otherwise, they can't live ordinary lives cooped up hiding from danger and I'm one of those people and he was one of those people, fast Furious 7.

Michelle Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We owe a profound debt to the soldiers who have lost limbs to buried bombs, to the brave veterans, and to the families who tragically lost their loved ones to the enemy's cowardly acts of terror, we owe a profound debt to the many Americans who have come to build schools, repair wells, and cure the sick. And we must acknowledge with appreciation that at the end of the day it is the ordinary Americans whose hard-earned taxes have over the years built the partnership that has led to our conversation today.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It wasn't the civil unrest that got me making this documentary. It was the protests, these momentous, courageous protests, you know, unprecedented numbers of people. Ordinary men and women in India who took to the streets across India's cities to cry, 'Enough is enough. We will not have our women unsafe. We will not have our women disrespected.' And for me, India was actually leading the world by example. This is what took me out there.

Filmmaker Leslee Udwin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These momentous, courageous protests, you know, unprecedented numbers of people. Ordinary men and women in India who took to the streets across India's cities to cry, 'Enough is enough. We will not have our women unsafe. We will not have our women disrespected.' And for me, India was actually leading the world by example. This is what took me out there.

Filmmaker Leslee Udwin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people, we're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

Judah Smith

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Taken from 500 miles above the earth, these images help us understand the suffering and fear experienced by ordinary Syrians every day, as their country is destroyed around them.

Dr Xi Li

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

These aren't just kings, these are ordinary people.

Ralph Mitchell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We gather here to honor the courage of ordinary Americans willing to endure billy clubs and the chastening rod; tear gas and the trampling hoof; men and women who despite the gush of blood and splintered bone would stay true to their North Star and keep marching toward justice.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Not just the legends and the giants of the Civil Rights Movement like Dr. King and John Lewis, but the countless American heroes whose names aren't in the history books that aren't etched on marble somewhere — ordinary men and women from all corners of this nation, all walks of life, black and white, rich and poor, students, scholars, maids, ministers — all who marched and who sang and organized to change this country for the better.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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