The challenge facing liberals and Democrats is to recapture that ordinary language.

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The idea behind Lord Mackay's suggestion, he explained, was to impart that health service provision "is the final responsibility of the secretary of state... in ordinary language, 'The buck stops here'".

BBC: Cross-party talks to take place on health secretary role

In most Muslim countries, in ordinary times, such language would be dismissed as hot-headed nonsense.

ECONOMIST: Arab education

On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

As the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator, I travel the country and train ordinary Arab and Muslim Americans to conduct local campaigns in their communities on issues ranging from health care and language access, education reform, restoring funding for social services, and addressing heavy handed immigration enforcement.

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