Sentence examples for conventional citizens from inspiring English sources

The tangible improvements in the lives of Japan's disabled that have occurred are in many ways a by-product of remedies aimed at more conventional citizens, particularly the elderly.

Reynolds escorts us through the mysteries of nineteenth-century sexual attitudes, which led conventional citizens to applaud Whitman's homosexual poems (in the "Calamus" section of "Leaves of Grass") as celebrations of manly friendship, and to condemn his heterosexual poems (in the "Children of Adam" section) as heterosexual poems.

It may not be "conventional citizen journalism" but it is an important indicator of the widening of space for political and social discourse.

The bursting of the dot-com bubble and the fiscal discipline it imposed have also contributed to Amazon's evolution from an exciting, mold-breaking company to a more conventional corporate citizen.

Today, this is becoming the conventional interpretation; Russia's citizens, after years of historical revelations, are readier to believe that Beria, bad as he was, was not much worse than most of the rivals who killed him.

"Contrary to the conventional wisdom that these citizens are motivated by feelings of economic competition from immigrants and minority groups, feelings of cultural threat are the most important driver of their support".

In short, in the conventional power grid, we citizens are absolutely passive users and bill payers.

"Done right", says the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a pressure-group for financial inclusion based at the World Bank, "mobile banking has the potential to help Myanmar provide basic formal accounts and payment services to most of its citizens," thus "leapfrogging" conventional banking altogether.To achieve that Myanmar will need an excellent new mobile-phone system.

If four of the five have found conventional happy endings as solid citizens and responsible parents, their present bliss seems tepid compared with their former life of ecstatic communion with nature.

But in November 2012, citizens in Colorado and Washington defied conventional wisdom and overwhelmingly voted to end their prohibitions on cannabis.

Pursuing a recurrent theme in his work (dutiful citizens rebelling against the conventional values in which they've been raised), Scott's movie stands alongside Alien and Blade Runner.