• Nora was something new, an ordinary woman who treated him as an ordinary man.

    NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

  • And the little bank for the ordinary man that he founded?

    BBC: Banker + gangster = bankster

  • He said Sir Ranulph would have been tired after the endurance run but "he is, by any measure, no ordinary man in terms of his achievements and stamina".

    BBC: Sir Ranulph Fiennes fined over car crash in Stockport

  • The Marcangelos will continue to the end with their tried-and-tested, no-nonsense approach to trade, which aims to give the ordinary man on the street exactly what he wants.

    BBC: Bridge Cafe montage

  • His most popular characters, the doggedly determined Mickey Mouse and the libidinous Donald Duck, represented the ordinary man's ability to triumph over any adversity, even a Great Depression.

    ECONOMIST: America��s sorcerer

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: ��Munich�� is a meditation on vengeance. Pity about the facts

  • Seated in Kahn's Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh, a professor of architecture, Shamsul Wares, tells Nathaniel that his father "was no ordinary man, " and gives a passionate recital of how the architect's vision conjured great buildings out of desolate, empty land.

    WSJ: Seeking the Father, Finding the Architect

  • Offer the ordinary man in the street a salary of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, the opportunity to see the sunnier parts of the world for free and the option of retiring at 35 years old, and he would bite your hand off.

    BBC: Bitter-sweet sympathy

  • The result is that Meyer has managed to place the consciousness of a teenage girl and her environs in Forks at the start of the 21st century, much as James Joyce placed the consciousness of an ordinary man--Leopold Bloom--and the city of Dublin at the start of the 20th.

    FORBES: Medialand

  • At a time when the ordinary wages for a man were about a shilling a day, these were huge sums.

    BBC: The woman who became a witch-pricker

  • She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.

    NEWYORKER: Amundsen

  • The surprise at the end of his story is that Jerry Bishop himself was the ordinary 64 year old man who was afraid to open the envelope with the APOE results.

    FORBES: Gene Tests That Predict When You Will Die

  • Landau is just three years older than Springsteen, but he is a man of more ordinary physical presence.

    NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

  • Mr Clarke's supporters are especially indignant at the thought that their man, the one most ordinary party members are thought to want, might not make it to the final ballot.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.

    ECONOMIST: Science in fiction is not science fiction

  • EU. Besides, say his opponents, Mr Klaus's concern for the wishes of ordinary Czechs is a bit rich, coming from the man who presided over the Czechoslovakian break-up without first bothering to test public opinion.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Unidentified Man: Were these fighters, or were these ordinary people?

    NPR: Grief and Anger Follow Deadly Qana Bombing

  • It's a chance to check out the latest devices and products and, more important, to "touch" Steve Jobs-even if only by viewing him on a giant screen-the man who democratized technology by putting computing power in the hands of ordinary people.

    FORBES: Cult brands

  • Mr Roh has been reluctant to strike a deal with a man he regards as a rich boy, isolated from the daily concerns of ordinary people.

    ECONOMIST: President Kim Dae-jung's party is collapsing around him

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