Harry drops into a diner for a cup of coffee and discovers that there's a robbery in progress: four black men, pretending to be ordinary customers, pull guns on the patrons and demand their valuables.
Even in ordinary times, pulling together such financing from private lenders alone would be nearly impossible.
Stories of endurance and collective sacrifice stuck with me: communities of ordinary people pulling together, a kind of solidarity I found deeply appealing.
There was rage, maybe even life-threatening rage, at Davis in Pakistan even when the U.S. was pretending he was an ordinary diplomat — pulling out a Glock on the streets of Lahore and shooting two people, then claiming immunity, will do that.
The broader All Ordinaries index pulled higher by 0.7%, to 3,143.20.
Ordinary investors should pull for Mr. Levitt to win this struggle because the rules he has proposed are calibrated to protect their financial interests.
Perhaps we should all be grateful that in broken Britain it's still possible to find a community whose law enforcement agents, civic officers, local media and ordinary citizens can pull together to rebuff an evil threatening their wellbeing.
Ordinary people can pull back.
How had so ordinary a man pulled off the largest swindle in history?
We live in an age when ordinary people feel pulled and pummeled by organized greed and where corporate incompetence is the new Professor Moriarty.
