A new United Nations is needed by the ordinary citizens we are privileged to represent here.

What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one.

What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one.

Women were given the opportunity to speak mostly as ordinary citizens rather than as experts or opinion leaders.

Unfortunately, the gulf between the expectations raised by the reforms and the benefits felt by ordinary citizens widened steadily.

Internally, Al Aqsa militants have become the main disrupters of law and order, threatening Palestinian Authority officials and ordinary citizens alike.

A man made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

The new property law won t be the breakthrough for rights protection that the government claims it is until it is matched by increased access to justice for ordinary citizens. The government is fortunate to have my lawyer friend s faith in the legal system, but now it must earn ordinary citizens trust by enacting reforms.

The Centre, which was inaugurated in September 2000, is visited by 100 persons daily, including students, journalists, civil servants, judges, lawyers and ordinary citizens.

We cannot equate the constitutional duty of the Government to protect the life and property of ordinary citizens with that of the dreadful activities of terrorists.

This improvement did not trickle down to ordinary citizens, and there was no effective media and communication strategy to capitalize on it. But Morsi s core supporters remain committed.

Many French writers also express a vivid feeling of national decline, and many ordinary citizens believe that the rules of the global economy work against French national interests.

Indeed, it is barely conceivable that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved without the efforts, creativity and solidarity of many millions of ordinary citizens through voluntary action.

Iceland, for example, has embarked on an unprecedented experiment in crafting a bottom up, crowd sourced constitution. Similarly, albeit less radically, ordinary citizens comprise two thirds of Ireland s Constitutional Convention.

For example, ordinary citizens could be allowed zero interest transactions balances (up to a limit). Presumably, nominal interest rates would move into negative territory only in response to a deep deflationary crisis.

Ordinary Laws

Our concern is not just about nuclear weapons. It is also about the proliferation of guns of every description, which endangers the lives of ordinary citizens, undermines the rule of law and threatens social stability.

Perfectly ordinary scientific paper.

There are ordinary heroes.

The same is true for the democratization of the EU and thus for its greater proximity to, and acceptance by, ordinary citizens. Given this point, the Irish decision is especially grotesque, because it rejected exactly what it called for.

Europe s scientific institutions are already evolving and adapting to new global challenges. People working within science and people working with science ordinary citizens will assure that the unending quest for human betterment continues to be an important part of European identity.

Structural reforms, in which certain interests are sacrificed for the greater good, will always be controversial and difficult to execute. But when such reforms involve sacrifices by ordinary citizens and benefit society s most privileged groups, political gridlock and instability invariably follow.

It sounds so ordinary, and yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

But this is no ordinary well.

They'd run ethanol or ordinary gasoline.

It just means ordinary or common.

Koko is not an ordinary gorilla.

We lead a very ordinary life.

She is just an ordinary girl.

And what follows is a stream of images, a series of images captured by some of Pakistan's most dynamic and young photographers, that aims to give you an alternative glimpse, a look inside the hearts and minds of some ordinary Pakistani citizens.

If they affect Russia s entire economy, hitting ordinary citizens the hardest, popular support for Putin s regime may solidify further. Of course, an economic slowdown could erode Putin s popular support, which is based on the gains in living standards made under his leadership.

The real issue is that the US Congress like many countries legislatures lives by rules that are very different from those imposed on ordinary citizens. In particular, the accounting, transparency, and fraud rules that govern businesses do not apply to elected representatives.

Ultimately, as I argue in greater detail in a paper for the Global Citizens Foundation, ordinary people are better off with global institutions, notwithstanding their weakness relative to their most powerful sovereign members and their lack of legitimacy relative to their democratic members.

The world s law abiding governments and ordinary citizens should call and email DeWalt, the Pentagon, and the White House press office to demand answers. A young man with a great deal of potentially compromising information died under suspicious circumstances in US custody.

Ordinary people barbers, clerks, white collar people.

I did nothing out of the ordinary.

I did nothing out of the ordinary.

Whereas that stance reflects the vision of an ever closer union that motivated the EU s founders, Germany s narrower, economic understanding of European integration cannot inspire ordinary citizens to support the compromises necessary to keep the EU together. Nor can it withstand the inevitable attacks directed against EU institutions for every action and regulation that citizens dislike and for which national politicians want to avoid responsibility.

Since the Arab Spring began, four long established regimes have been removed, while others are under increasing pressure, giving ordinary Arabs hope that their demands will no longer be ignored, and that those who govern will be mindful of citizens needs. But that the real revolution will happen only when true representatives of citizens, rather than the military, begin to set their countries political course.

So, recently, we have realized that the ordinary matter in the universe and by ordinary matter, I mean you, me, the planets, the stars, the galaxies the ordinary matter makes up only a few percent of the content of the universe.

One of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary Pakistanis that drive home a profound message for citizens of all nations look beyond disputes, and see the humanity we share.

Instead, the process was opened up to the public, with ordinary citizens allowed to contribute via a government blog. Advocates of free software mixed it up with law enforcers and lobbyists from the likes of Google and Yahoo, in a pioneering example of wiki democracy.

There are, of course, the country s rich history, abundance of archeological sites, azure skies, and crystalline seas. But there is also the intense pressure under which Greek society is now functioning and the extraordinary courage with which ordinary citizens are coping with economic disaster.

Ordinary criminality and corruption are on the rise.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty. Minimalist solutions respond to neither the expectations of the citizens nor the requirements of a rapidly changing world.