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Ordinary in sentence

1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

Clearly, this is no ordinary French election.
No independent has ever won the French presidency, but, again, this is no ordinary election.
Opening up trade in agriculture significantly improved living standards for ordinary Japanese, but it could easily have hurt the country’s farmers.
Weak banks must be allowed to fail or merge (with ordinary depositors being paid off by government insurance funds), so that strong banks can emerge with renewed vigor.
Why, then, should ordinary taxpayers foot the bill to bail out the financial industry?
Although unemployment remains too high, ordinary Colombians are seeing real signs of change and hope for the future.
Although the schedule for my most recent trip was overwhelming, and offered little real contact with ordinary people, I could still grasp – from daily newspapers, TV programs, and conversations with friends – the profound economic, political, and moral crisis engulfing the country.
So, too, were new digital technologies that freed up information and facilitated communication among ordinary citizens, essentially dismantling the monopolies that many governments held on knowledge and connectivity.
Others will say that the failure to recognize the full effects of IMF-endorsed austerity on Greek citizens proves that she is out of touch with ordinary people.
Ordinary Europeans will pay a high price for their leaders self -deception and mistaken policies.
A US peace plan that is fair and reasonable would certainly have many ordinary Israelis and Palestinians cheering.
With an economy about a quarter of the size of America’s, it was able to maintain rough military parity by spending four times as much of its national income on defense as the US did – to the detriment of the living standards of ordinary citizens.
Ordinary workers have no choice but to pay their taxes.
Ordinary people vaguely associate independence with truth, and partisanship with lies or at least with untrustworthiness.
(Other democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Spain, always try terrorism suspects, including alleged Al Qaida members, in ordinary criminal trials).
All the ordinary - and the extraordinary - weapons that democracy possesses must be employed.
Similarly, laws affording ordinary citizens the right to complain about press reports are easily gamed.
In all likelihood, the law would also prevent ordinary citizens from obtaining information about the state security apparatus that is supposedly protecting them.
But our ordinary common sense does not apply in fundamental physics.
Thousands of ordinary citizens defied the tanks when Marcos threatened to crush “People Power” with force, but the presence of priests and nuns gave the rebellion its moral authority.
In the 1990s, as ordinary Hungarians struggled with the transition from communism to a market economy, the foundation funded free milk for elementary school children in Budapest and supplied the first sonogram machines for Hungarian hospitals.
But, apart from persecuted minorities and dissidents, many ordinary people gained from government programs (not to mention the looting of conquered countries).
Ordinary Pakistanis hate the US because they believe that America supported years of oppression and military rule, while Pakistani elites are wary of anything that may undermine the position they have come to enjoy.
The financial crisis has not helped improve the image of globalization, which has long been deeply unpopular among ordinary voters in most of the world’s advanced countries.
Awkwardly for oil companies, bitumen is not ordinary oil.
Environmentalists correctly note that producing heat for either process uses more energy than does overcoming gravity to pump up ordinary oil.
He is no ordinary US president, and he must be taken seriously, though not literally, to borrow a phrase from The Atlantic’s Salena Zito.
China has reached – or perhaps passed – the stage during which a laser-like focus on productivity and GDP growth corresponds with ordinary citizens’ sense of wellbeing.
Nevertheless, there remains a nagging sense that universities are luxuries now that ordinary people are struggling to make ends meet.
Ancient Athens became a “democracy” – literally, government by the people – when Kleisthenes organized ordinary fisher folk and farmers into a mass rabble capable of defeating Sparta-backed oligarchs.
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