Sentence examples for ordinary honest from inspiring English sources

Phillip Sykes, president of R3, said: "The Government is potentially writing off hundreds of millions of pounds per year that's owed not just to HMRC, but to hundreds, if not thousands, of ordinary honest businesses as well.

Last week, the popular Web site Rue89 started a crusade against normality, asking journalists to refine and expand their vocabulary to include words like "ordinary," "natural," "honest" and "sober".

But a lot of it is paid advertising masquerading as bona fide endorsements by celebrities, well-known bloggers and even ordinary people — honest comment, free from pecuniary considerations.

"Populist parties pit the good, the honest, ordinary voter against the out-of-touch, liberal mainstream political elite," the writer Jamie Bartlett said in the left-wing New Statesman weekly in Britain.

After its Google News search returned more than 43,000 results for the search "Hollande + Normal", and more than 88,000 for "President + normal", the site launched a "No 'Normal' Day", hashtagged on Twitter, in which it beseeched journalists to broaden their vocabulary, asking did they really mean "normal", or perhaps "ordinary", "natural", "sober", "honest" or "reasonable"?

The next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy looked, walked, and behaved like an honest, ordinary boy.

He had various personas: legal genius, humble Internet helpmate, honest broker, ordinary kid who liked the Web.

In its plainness and honest depiction of ordinary lives, it's the painting that most nearly resembles his fiction.

Fast forward several weeks, to President Obama offering the sort of honest defense of ordinary Palestinians that proved troublesome for Mr. Hagel, but which is an essential basis for any credible peace initiative.

Isaac added that his "actions would be considered dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people, and that you must have realised that your actions would be regarded as dishonest".

The first question is whether a defendant's behaviour would be regarded as dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people.