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Normally, in a liberal democracy, we vote for men and women expecting them to study and decide on issues that most ordinary citizens have neither the time nor the knowledge to deal with themselves.
The support of a multi-millionaire now counts vastly more than that of an ordinary citizen, making a mockery of the principle of “one man, one vote.”
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
Now the internet provides ordinary Chinese what they never had before: uncensored information.
The internet has provided ordinary Chinese with access to the real story as well as to a public voice, which means that they can be a powerful ally in efforts to effect change in the most populace nation on earth.
With the rich and powerful pulling the strings, ordinary people feel that they have no influence on electoral outcomes.
Any serious candidate for Fed chairman should understand the importance of good regulation and the need to return the US banking system to the business of providing credit, especially to ordinary Americans and small and medium-size businesses (that is, those who cannot raise money on capital markets).
In fact, it was a revolt for human dignity, for a better life for ordinary citizens.
Other changes, such as reducing the need for and the cost of private tutoring, would make a material difference in the lives of ordinary Egyptians.
Unless ordinary Americans wake up to these fiscal risks, the rich may walk away with another multi-billion-dollar gift as the country and the world bear the harsh consequences for years to come.
As ordinary Germans flocked to train stations and border posts to greet people seeking shelter from war, distress, and misery, Germany’s “Welcome Culture” was saluted as a truly inspiring example of humanitarianism.
Many small savers place their savings in so-called money-market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits.
That this is no accident of electoral mechanics is proved by studies that probe the attitudes of ordinary Czechs.
According to Ricky Goodwin, a former Paquim journalist and the exhibit’s curator, at one point, when the magazine’s main cartoonists and writers were in prison, a mass of ordinary Brazilians surrounded its offices, insisting that publication continue.
The fact that the king could sometimes be seen carrying his skis into the metro, like an ordinary citizen, was for me a source of admiration.
As you read this, perfectly ordinary people somewhere in the world are doing unspeakable things to others.
But in China, the brand has unwittingly found itself enmeshed in tales that illustrate the powerlessness of ordinary Chinese against the powerful and corrupt.
The outcry after the first BMW case was not really about the light sentence given to a rich woman, but about the lack of confidence ordinary people have in China's judicial system.
While pop music fans in China can listen to whatever they like, including Madonna singing "I'm gonna shake up the system," ordinary Chinese need courage to speak such messages aloud.
One elected chamber might be reserved only for Communist Party members, the other for representatives elected by ordinary Chinese.
In short, it would be wrong for investors or ordinary citizens around the world to have too much faith in G-20’s promises to rein in monetary and fiscal policies, much less to do so in a coordinated way.
Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.
In addition, ordinary Saudis see the chaos next door in Iraq and do not want the same turmoil at home.
First, today’s deep economic uncertainty has broadened ordinary people’s awareness of the influence that companies have on politics, policy, and their own daily lives.
Their infighting continues to upset people, while most of their policy proposals have little to do with the problems that ordinary citizens face.
The Fed’s seemingly unchecked authority, like the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance, undermines ordinary Americans’ faith in their government.
Political outcomes in the United States and many other countries in recent years have reflected the state of insecurity in which many ordinary citizens live, and to which GDP pays scant attention.
Ordinary people – the dwindling but still vast middle class – must bear a tax increase, and millions will lose health insurance, in order to finance a tax cut for billionaires and corporations.
Where the IMF’s next managing director will come down on this issue – and on whether fiscal salvation is to be achieved through austerity, with costs borne by ordinary citizens, even as bankers get only a mild slap on the wrist – is critically important, but hard to predict.
Accordingly, war will be unambiguously bad in terms of what really counts: the standard of living of ordinary people.
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