Sentence examples for capacity of ordinary from inspiring English sources

In both examples, she celebrates the capacity of ordinary people to respond collectively to challenges they commonly face.

Malthus knew that some people were more "frugal" than others, but he hugely underestimated the capacity of ordinary human beings to keep eating.

They invested enormous hope in the capacity of ordinary people to create bonds of citizenship based on simple ideals — "We the people" — and in a sturdy design to balance self-governance with public trust.

Such techniques are crucial for the dream of quantum computers, which manipulate so-called qubits that are 1 and 0 simultaneously to solve some problems like factoring gigantic numbers to break codes beyond the capacity of ordinary computers.

Malthus knew that some people were more "frugal" than others, but he hugely underestimated the capacity of ordinary human beings to keep eating… As of 2006, there were eight hundred million people on the planet who were hungry, but they were outnumbered by the billion who were overweight.

I love this book for what it says about the resourcefulness of humanity, the capacity of ordinary people to make a difference, and for those small differences to add up to something that might even turn the planet away from its apparently unstoppable hurtle towards environmental destruction.

Factory workers and farmers joined churches, and stopped drinking, for the same reason that their middle-class counterparts did: they were persuaded by evangelism's embrace of egalitarianism, and "its trust in the capacities of ordinary people".

The show, in its preview stage, included an oversight of a certain physical consequence: there should have been 284 Manhattan phone books to indicate the information storage capacity of an ordinary human cell's nucleus, not the 142 displayed, since ordinary cells contain two copies of the genome, one from each parent.

He still loves them and needs them; he can still do extraordinary things with them, like perform complicated calculations instantly in his head, far beyond the capacity of an ordinary calculator.

The connections can handle as many as 622 million bits per second, hundreds of times the capacity of the ordinary Internet.

Whereas theorists tend to emphasize the capacity of our ordinary moral experience to be neatly ordered and systematized, the anti-theorists emphasize the cultural embeddedness, particularities, and ineradicable untidiness of our moral lives (Elliott 1999).