Sentence examples for told ordinary from inspiring English sources

On the day of the vote, state media told ordinary Russians that the election was fixed, Hillary Clinton's victory pre-ordained.

He says the law clerk misconstrued his stories about Adnan, that he'd only said Adnan told ordinary teenager's lies about where he was going out to at night.

She would tell ordinary family stories with snippets of her wartime experiences," Eva says.

Instead, environment secretary Caroline Spelman seems to be focusing on telling ordinary people to have fewer baths.

It notes that Gordon Brown greeted the torch (telling ordinary Chinese news consumers that it had high-level backing).

It was hardly a confidence builder to have people in command enjoying free rides while telling ordinary passengers to dig deeper into their pockets.

Mothers, sons, sisters, brothers, partners, friends, cheek-to-cheek, laughing, celebrating: snapshot portraits telling ordinary stories of interracial marriage, closeness, family.

This is great isn't it, a posh boy with a fortune of £30m, who has never had to worry about a penny in his life, is telling ordinary people struggling to get by, to reduce their spending.

But it would help blunt criticism that City Hall practices a form of vehicular hypocrisy, telling ordinary New Yorkers to use mass transportation while at times clogging the streets with its own city-issued cars.

Though the presence of tens of thousands of American soldiers tells ordinary Iraqis that Mr. Hussein could never return to power, many members of the Baath Party are insinuating themselves into leading positions under the American administration.

But when you schedule a hearing for 7 30 a.m., with the sun barely over the Brooklyn Bridge, you are telling ordinary New Yorkers that their presence is not much honored.