• In fact, Mr Hague has middle-class parents, went to an ordinary state school and is claimed to prefer a pint of beer.

    ECONOMIST: The Tories

  • When ideas are reduced to icons, which, unfortunately, is the ordinary state of affairs, constitutionalism and originalism look exactly the same: the faux parchment stands for both.

    NEWYORKER: The Commandments

  • Earlier today, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and President Obama did something out of the ordinary for a state visit: They got out of Washington.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee on the KORUS FTA

  • This shadow tax system, created in 1969 to make sure fat cats with oil wells paid some tax, now hits upper-middle-income folks who claim too many deductions for ordinary stuff like state and local taxes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "Judicial review is vital in allowing ordinary people to hold the state to account, " said Shami Chakrabarti, the organisation's director.

    BBC: Ministers line up curbs on 'frivolous' judicial reviews

  • This means that a partnership's entire pretax earnings go to shareholders, while at an ordinary corporation, federal, state and local governments skim off 40% and more of that earnings stream.

    FORBES: Sweet consolation

  • The rest of the state suffers more-ordinary criminality.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • Heads of state, religious leaders and ordinary citizens were expressing outrage.

    NPR: G8 Leaders Agree on Aid Package for Africa

  • 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 the experiment capital gains and dividends are taxed as ordinary income and there is no exclusion for state and local bonds issued after December 31, 2012.

    FORBES: Eliminating Tax Expenditures To Cut Rates - Early Results Are Underwhelming

  • What is important in this context is that News Corporation, owner of News International, is no ordinary public company - in that (to state the blindingly obvious) Mr Murdoch wields considerably more power within the organisation than is typical of a public-company boss.

    BBC: News International's Rebekah Brooks 'won't resign'

  • Though some changes to the state pension system can be done by ordinary laws, the main reform the government now wants requires a constitutional amendment.

    ECONOMIST: Cardoso��s reform puzzle

  • As I noted in my piece on some New Hampshire lawyers who find themselves having to pay Maine income taxes, multi-state tax issues are a source of aggravation for ordinary regional businesses or even local businesses in areas like New England, where, unless you start in northern Maine and drive south, it is very hard to go an appreciable distance without crossing a state line.

    FORBES: Sprint Uses Partnership Structure to Dodge Louisiana Corporate Tax

  • The New York proposal would see out-of-state commuters taxed on these profits instead at the higher ordinary income tax rates, in line with New York residents.

    FORBES: Battle For Fund Managers Underway Between Connecticut And New York

  • His hasty mass-privatisation programme, which made ordinary Czechs the formal owners of most enterprises but gave control to state-owned banks with no interest in improving them, created a crisis that culminated in a humiliating devaluation of the currency in May last year.

    ECONOMIST: Czech Republic

  • In the United States both secular and religious arbitration are firmly established, operating under a Federal Arbitration Act that gives robust standing to the procedure but also allows the parties to counter-appeal to ordinary courts on certain grounds (though America's church-state separation stops courts hearing arguments about doctrine).

    ECONOMIST: Sharia in the West

  • In exchange they would get an immensely valuable release from any future lawsuits of this nature, including suits based on state consumer-protection laws that require a lower standard of proof than ordinary fraud claims.

    FORBES: Judge Rejects DirectBuy Settlement

  • Bombard an ordinary hydrogen atom with microwaves of the right frequency and you will lift it out of its ground state by flipping the spin of its electron.

    ECONOMIST: Are matter and antimatter truly opposites?

  • Within each State Capitol, there is likely to be a strong self-fulfilling prophecy to skirt around ordinary taxpayers in favor of the next new thing that only government could sustain.

    FORBES: Strangled By Taxes, Will Michigan Loosen The State's Grip?

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