Sentence examples for ordinary elderly from inspiring English sources

The life-sized protagonists on the canvas are surrounded by ordinary elderly men.

This got loud jeers from the faithful, but it remains to be seen whether ordinary elderly voters will agree.The turnout tends to be low in special elections, as elsewhere; but politicians can usually depend on older voters to make the effort.

Besides the disparities between rural and urban areas, another interesting finding was that the ordinary elderly were likely to compare themselves to retired cadres regarding their health benefits.

Despite the gap between urban and rural areas gradually reducing, as long as the reform in medical welfare was being carried forward, the inequities between the ordinary elderly and cadres did not decrease but became a fundamental factor that affected the understanding of health inequity for vulnerable elders.

As America itself lost its moral pre-eminence among the nations, as the world's corrosions rusted its shine, so New York began to seem more ordinary, more elderly perhaps.

He hobnobbed with ordinary people: the elderly, aborigines and small business owners.

Contrast a celebrity or state funeral with that for an elderly ordinary person.

Here Mr. Mueck offers a portrait of an ordinary, fully dressed elderly woman sitting with elbows on her knees and gazing pensively through red-rimmed eyes.

Just after a calf was born to an ordinary cow, an elderly lady, later identified as a witch, advised the herdsman to keep it separate from the other cattle, presumably after she noticed its deformed ears and suspected it was a water bull.

"All over this country," he declared, "ordinary people, working people, elderly people are moving in our direction because they do want a candidate to take on the establishment".

From the mayor of a radiation-hit city who refused to leave, to a traumatised fisherman who now looks after his elderly neighbours – ordinary people who, in a few terrifying minutes, saw their lives transformed by catastrophe.