"He's an ordinary guy, and he wants to be remembered as an ordinary bloke, " Steve Irwin's father Bob said.
President Obama may insist that he speaks for ordinary citizens when he opines that the rich need to be reined in.
He said, correctly, that he was an ordinary chap, but he politely answered reporters' questions about his life.
While others spend million on machines with complicated acronyms, the beauty of Ramachandran's work is that he uses ordinary items such as mirrors, pens and paper.
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He hoped ordinary Italians would take away his ashes and mix them with the earth of the motherland, and that from them gardens might grow that would symbolise a new and better Italy.
"He is an ordinary criminal defendant at this point, and he is likely to remain that way, " Toobin said.
The best thing about football, he said once, was the ordinary people he met including those of Garforth, near Leeds in northern England, whose non-league team he coached for a chilly month in 2004.
Rather, he has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do.
Harmed by the early death of his father, he orbits the ordinary centres of life and risks flying off into utter loneliness.
He was admired partly because he was so ordinary, an accidental hero.
The journalist said there were no reports of injuries and that he only saw ordinary police on the scene -- not anti-riot police.
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But, he warns, ordinary Malawians will measure the president's success on more mundane matters like his ability to deliver drugs to hospitals and fertiliser to farms.
Chosen because he is an ordinary man who loves his country, Avner unquestioningly accepts and meets his team, deftly played by Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz and Hanns Zischler.
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He must persuade ordinary Greeks, battered by austerity, to accept cuts to the minimum wage, pensions and spending, as well as a programme of structural reform that has no parallel in modern Greek history.
"I looked at him, thinking, 'he is not the one who makes national policies, he is just an athlete, an ordinary American', " he recalls.
As a rule, he writes about completely ordinary people, middle- and working-class, from drab places.
He was just an ordinary American who was grateful for the service of all those who wear the uniform.
Bill Clinton did something ordinary: he had an affair and lied about it.
He was not an ordinary businessman but an artist of the human experience.
He had lots of ordinary income from his portfolio alongside big trading losses.
So, too, the role he plays in the popular drama series, Packed to the Rafters, where he burnishes his "ordinary Australian" credentials.
According to the royal source, Harry relishes the ordinary treatment he receives as a captain and Apache helicopter pilot in Britain's Army Air Corps.
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"We are a very tight-knit family, and it's very out of the ordinary that he would be not in contact for even 24 hours, " Ravi told WPRI.
Here he's earnestly ordinary as mild-mannered Walter Sparrow, a pet detective (well, OK, an "animal control officer") who becomes obsessed with a pseudonymous self-published novel, "The Number 23, " by Topsy Kretts.
"Gardenhire had no idea that the deceptively ordinary laser he had borrowed from a friend was powerful enough to be seen by, much less distract, a pilot thousands of feet away, " wrote attorney Sean Kennedy.
The dispatcher, having started out as a klutz so ordinary that he wears a tie and a sleeveless sweater, morphs into an action hero, which is just one of a cluster of wild implausibilities that crowd out the cogency of the film.
He also passed on a chauffeured limousine, preferring to take the bus with ordinary people, and he cooked his own meals.
But the pure value of Buffett is what he has done for a legion of ordinary Americans who have some stake in Berkshire Hathaway that he has grown for them over the years.
He looks forward to continuing discussions with ordinary Americans, with business leaders -- as you know, he has another meeting with business leaders today -- with members of Congress, leaders of Congress, as we continue to work out what he believes would be the right, balanced approach to deal with these challenges with Congress.
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