"Here in Slaver's Bay, you had the support of the common people and only the common people," Tyrion points out to her.
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Grace Jones performs at Common People Festival at Southampton Common.
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And so he speaks in a common sense way to common people.
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"The common people, they loved that man, literally loved him," said Brechin.
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The people -- common people -- have no way (to respond) except to wait.
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He is a common man or he could not go among common people.
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"5G was not known by common people," he said in an interview with CBS.
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"They found nothing: we are common people," his brother, Mubashir Assad Pandit, told Reuters.
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McCord explained how to avoid common people-management mistakes using simple strategies and exercises.
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"The common people will hate America more," said Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line analyst.
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In the Philippines, as elsewhere, our leaders pretend that they're like the common people.
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"It's the common people who suffer when the government wants to celebrate," he said.
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In his new, obsessively documented mission to gather (and probably, in some way, monetize) the authenticity of Common People, Facebook's putty-faced CEO is doing exactly what common people do: showing up to places uninvited, unannounced, and demanding absolute secrecy from strangers.
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"When the country is in trouble, we common people have a duty," Mr. Ma said.
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Hamilton mistrusted the political capacities of the common people and insisted on deference to elites.
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It was a reminder: Sushi is food for common people; sushi belongs to us all.
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"These are your average common people carrying firearms that are in common use," he said.
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Cutting remarks and sarcasm are so common people often aren't ready for compliments or gratitude.
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Notably, the family is spared the brutality, rape and methodical pillage suffered by the common people.
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To start very generally: The word vulgar comes from the Latin vulgus, meaning the common people.
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"I wonder how many common people that he knows or that he's spoken to," Stills said.
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She cares about the common people that are buying the tickets to see the films, the relatability.
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So, naturally, inevitably, even if there's not much in common, people starting comparing her to Margaret Thatcher.
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Greeks and Israelis were some of the least likely to see politicians as caring about common people.
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Once there, they can board using a separate staircase, after the common people have taken their seats.
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Many of the pieces here feature common people asserting their individual political voices to buttress this idea.
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King Bhumibol was widely beloved by Thais who saw him as an advocate of the common people.
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Caesar is a popular hero whom the common people celebrate, even though they used to love Pompey.
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Jia is known for his independent movies that showcase the grittier face of the common people of China.
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To the local populations of the aforementioned countries, managing currencies has turned common people into artisanal forex traders.
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Populists, and this is key, make a very deliberate effort to show that they're of the common people.
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"Whole media, government and us, the common people, have completely ignored them," one Twitter user, Rahul Sribastab, wrote.
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As the procedures became more common, people saw the utility of such surgeries and the "yuck" factor diminished.
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In the aftermath, it appears not only common people, but even the government is struggling to cope up.
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But they admire his willingness to wage what they see as a patriotic battle to defend common people.
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With the Indian new wave focusing on social issues and common people, it opened up opportunities for him.
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He is also regarded as one of the earliest genre painters, depicting common people and their everyday experiences.
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"In China, the rich families control the business, so it is difficult for the common people," Wei said.
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I think he really wanted to help the people and improve the life of the common people of Cuba.
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"When the country is in trouble, we common people have a duty," the driver told The New York Times.
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"These aren't normal protesters; these are common people," a teacher from Lyon named Pierre told BuzzFeed News on Saturday.
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For common people on a budget, no long-lost family members have the audacity to come asking for cash.
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China has only a few hundred courses, most with exorbitant green fees well beyond the budget of common people.
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People have added anyone from public figures to the common people in their lives onto Felt's own naughty list.
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Boycott left Ireland, but his name remained, reportedly popularized by a priest who thought "ostracize" would confuse common people.
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We as a civilization perhaps care more about how art is housed than about how common people are housed.
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"The skies are blue, but it's the common people that have to pay the price," said Zheng, the shopowner.
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As such events become more common, people turn to insurance to cover the costs of damage which can increase premiums.
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But the bridge and the hospital are not built for the president or officials, but are for the common people.
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The common people are provoked by Mark Antony to an anger over Caesar's death that's so fierce that casualties ensue.
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Ahead, four ways the rich build and preserve wealth that we, the common people, can actually enact in our own lives.
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First, there's Varys, whose purported goal was to improve the lives of common people and do what's best for the realm.
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Unlike the imperial family, common people were allowed to adopt sons, but it was indeed a gloomy period for many women.
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Alex: One question I keep coming back to is, what does this all look like to the common people of Westeros?
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The Workers' Party (PT) has cultivated a reputation for cleanliness, for sticking up for the common people against a corrupt system.
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Westerosi law is more consistent in the areas of property, inheritance, and succession — it privileges the powerful, not the common people.
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Uganda has several seed producers and a president, Yoweri Museveni, who exhorts the wananchi ("common people") to adopt modern farming practices.
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These terrific feats concerning his generosity and his care for children are what made St. Nicholas popular among the common people.
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However, the groups seemed to have one thing in common: People who had never met one another before organized them on Facebook.
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Mike, now understanding that fascists gain power for themselves by creating division among the common people, sees the error of his ways.
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Perhaps the hardest part about this prevalent issue is that because it's so common people don't recognize it's a problem at all.
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The reality of common people, overlooked by Cocker on the song version, is that we all settle, in one way or another.
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The cease-fire was a "glimmer of hope for the common people," he wrote, but there was much more ground to cover.
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He was revered by many Thais, who saw him as an advocate of the common people and a promoter of economic development.
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Educating common people was the answer to the oligarchs who said the average citizen could not be trusted to choose leaders wisely.
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Varys would likely whisper his support, given the scene in "Stormborn" that told us his allegiance was with the common people of Westeros.
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It addresses an urgent social problem — the European refugee crisis — and sets its story among what used to be called the common people.
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The populist narrative, dominant in the electorate, says that America is divided between the virtuous common people and the corrupt and stupid elites.
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King Bhumibol was revered by many Thais who saw him as an advocate of the common people and a promoter of economic development.
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Overseas governments, overseas companies and even its own increasingly choosy consumers complain that China's counterfeit products hurt brand names and common people alike.
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It is, at its core, about the violence that governments do to each other, and the impact that those decisions have on common people.
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"These aren't normal protesters; these are common people," a man who gave his name as Pierre told BuzzFeed News, describing the demonstration as historic.
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But now I am selling a lot of plain black t-shirts for the common people too, and the professionals come for dress clothes.
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After the Industrial Revolution, when transportation became more common, people started to marry those who were born farther away and were more distantly related.
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And if you were a student there, it was very common — people dressed up for football games, boys wore suits, the girls wore pearls.
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"They were as good as Mozart, geniuses but also normal, common people who appealed to the man or woman on the street," he said.
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"They were as good as Mozart, geniuses but also normal, common people who appealed to the man or woman on the street," he said.
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Thomas B. Edsall Reader, guess when this paragraph was written: Liberalism has turned away from the common people and become institutionalized into an establishment.
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Without the dressing of a string quartet that lent the original recording a classical gloss, the song was a bleak portrait of stoic common people.
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"She definitely wanted more showing that the people lived on the land, that they were farmers, peasants, and common people tilling their gardens," Vess says.
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What is needed is a new strategy — acknowledging stagnant wages and declining living standard — that shows how climate action solves the problems of common people.
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If it had been the 90s, you may have found Pulp, strutting their way through "Common People" in a cloud of sweat and cigarette smoke.
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Or maybe something altogether new … For all of the actions taken on behalf of the "common people," it's rare that the commoners themselves are consulted.
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The cost is expected to come down "dramatically" over the next decade as space travel becomes more accessible to common people, Branson said on CNBC.
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Moreover, her party — the leftist Workers' Party (PT) — has cultivated a reputation for cleanliness, for sticking up for the common people against a corrupt system.
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Our debates are also resonating in Europe, where the elites stand accused of ignoring the "demos" (common people) in their allegedly incompetent exercise of "kratos" (power).
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They were there to be Stoneheart's ragtag team, and to provide a window in the horrors that war had inflicted on the common people in Westeros.
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" Mr. Eggers and Ms. Muir were also guided by another set of Stuart Press books, "Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England.
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"While Mr. Nilekani may not personally face issues because of this foolishness," he said, "spare a thought for common people whose Aadhaar details have been leaked."
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In the U.S., more than half say that most politicians are corrupt, don't care what common people think, and that not much changes after an election.
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To Game of Thrones' common people, or smallfolk, all the drama and trauma over who is or isn't going to be king is literally a joke.
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"We do take extra care and sometimes we even postpone our attacks in highly important areas because we don't want common people to suffer," he said.
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The cost is expected to come down "dramatically" over the next decade as space travel becomes more accessible to common people, Branson told CNBC on Tuesday.
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"I never really got into trouble with Museveni, because for a long time there was a disconnect between the common people and the elite," he said.
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He knew that the common people had to have economic benefits and a say in the running of the state, because the state depended on them.
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Since he launched a series of town-hall meetings across France during which he debated with common people for hours on end, Macron's popularity has rebounded.
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This is a response to what is seen as a corrupt order, one that perpetuates the power of a global elite at the expense of common people.
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A plurality of voters believes that Manchin hasn't been supportive enough of Trump, but half of the voters believe he understands the issues that common people face.
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It's the sort of blithe misrepresentation long practiced by elected officials like our current president: I'm not one of them; I'm one of you, the common people.
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"I think he really did believe that he could personally make a difference by getting in with the common people," said Terry Ritchie, who is now retired.
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For politics to be centered on the needs of the common people, we must ensure that more women around the world have a seat at the table.
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Since pet influencers have become more common, people are actively trying to make it happen for them, and all they care about is capitalizing on their pet.
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"The army strongly protected them, and it is really amazing how they are doing it, but the army is gaining popularity among the common people," he said.
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Mr. Kem Ley called them "political jokes," but usually the joke was on the common people, who were continually being duped by tigers, lions and rapacious rulers.
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When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security — especially during crises — the most successful administrations had three things in common: people, process and policy.
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And if it hasn't how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people if you have no experience in what's ailing them?
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As the name indicates, this was a species of ballet that shifted the emphasis from pure classical dancing to stories, particularly those of common people vanquishing cruel overlords.
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If the British band Pulp were from Smithtown rather than Sheffield, the rum and coke in "Common People" might be a Long Island Iced Tea: the proletariat choice.
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The new archbishop saw himself as a priest of the common people, a good Salesian (for that was his formation) carrying out the Catholic church's "option for the poor".
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"Our customers are common people and many of them have a thin wallet: That often means they live in a small space," says Johanna Jelinek, a designer at Ikea.
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If an appeal to a broadly defined common people struggling against an out-of-touch elite is populist, then the Declaration of Independence is a populist document par excellence.
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Just like the wealthy subject of "Common People," the 1995 Pulp song with a notably similar title to Rooney's novel, Marianne doesn't quite grasp how good she's got it.
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While he wears a "tough guy" mask, his movements have the quality of an old dowager who has taken the carriage into town to mix with the common people.
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What Mr. Dodin has tossed out is Lady Milford's growing moral horror at the source of the duke's wealth and his recklessness with the lives of the common people.
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"When I got old enough I acquired a taste for Cuban cigars so I have come to appreciate Castro trying to help the common people all these years," he said.
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The last time inequality was at these levels, aristocrats across Europe who had more in common with each other than with their own "common people" was something of a cliché.
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Those traits also fit well with the description of a convention, where shared dining areas are common, people come and go, and visitors live alongside each other in hotel rooms.
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While Trump can mouth the classic populist tropes about a globalist elite undermining the common people, there's very little space in Trumpism for the masses gaining agency through political action.
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"The Uyghur conversion to Islam was not a voluntary choice made by the common people, but a result of religious wars and imposition by the ruling class," the report said.
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It's a difficult album, and to an extent, you can't really blame people for not wanting to hear their champions of the common people lamenting partying hard and getting older.
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But he did say that misdiagnosing bipolar disorder for unipolar depression is dangerous, because even though bipolar is much less common, people who suffer from bipolar have higher suicide rates.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or associated with the great masses of people noun: one of the common people _________ The word plebeian has appeared in five articles on nytimes.
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When Ms. Linton's response, which contained the lines "Aw" and "Your life looks cute," didn't garner the ecstatic genuflection of the common people as expected, she made her account private.
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"We are common people, and we don't understand the technical terms they are using," said Epi Samsul Komar, the father of one of the passengers on the Lion Air flight.
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Listen below: Move over, William Shatner's cover of "Common People": There is a new aging white male superstar actor proving himself to be surprisingly good at covering British indie icons!
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But for the common people of Sicily, and its capital, Palermo, the Mafia has been a long-term waking nightmare, yielding incredibly high murder rates and viral, nearly all-encompassing corruption.
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In every area of policy—tax, environment, health, energy, even the management of the nation's national parks—we have seen a sustained disdain for common people and an allegiance to the rich.
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"We understand that grass roots are so powerful: the voices of the common people starting at the lowest levels, going to the highest levels, rather than from the top down," she says.
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Next to it was his study, where he wrote by the light of a single candle and received the "common" people through the backstairs, which he also used to come and go unnoticed.
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In the autocratic world of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, what common people think is irrelevant; what matters is whether throwing his hit men under the bus is enough to satisfy President Trump.
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But if Sansa is remotely serious about caring for the interests of the common people, she'll see that the last thing the smallfolk need is for northern cities to be torched by dragonfire.
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At the same time, nationalist, xenophobic movements across Europe are on the rise — promising, like Donald J. Trump, to stick it to those out-of-touch elites who don't understand the common people.
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Nativist, nationalist rhetoric — 'Make America (or Whatever Other Country) Great Again' — appeals because it promises to restore the rightful economic and cultural stature of 'common people' in relation to a decadent urban intelligentsia.
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Nativist, nationalist rhetoric — "Make America (or Whatever Other Country) Great Again" — appeals because it promises to restore the rightful economic and cultural stature of "common people" in relation to a decadent urban intelligentsia.
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Surrounded by a bunch of white onlookers, he noted to the camera, in that bullshit television tone, that when on foreign trips, Obama loves to deviate from his schedule to eat with common people.
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It's not hard to see the parallels today—the fleeting pop momentum of "Common People" in the momentary self-satisfaction of hashtag activism; the smug, Yorke-ian satisfaction that these issues aren't your fault.
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As it approaches, party newspapers and a new book have promoted the official line that Mr. Xi is a strong leader with close ties to the common people because of his time in Liangjiahe.
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Power to the People As despicable as some of the High Sparrow's methods are, he actually has a point — the common people have been much neglected in the games that the high lords play.
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There, too, democracy needs fixing, and thoughtful people are trying to mend the alienation between policy makers and voters — to persuade the experts and the common people not to give up on one another.
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"When I sit in the taxi or bus I sometimes overhear common people saying they adore Trump, he at least honors his promises in campaign, they say," said Ali Sabzevari, a now-unemployed publisher.
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While interracial relationships are only becoming more and more common, people who date or marry someone of a different race still face discrimination — or at the very least, uncomfortable, often offensive comments about their relationship.
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Not surprisingly, common people began to use their new political influence to create economic policies that were favorable to themselves (and disadvantageous to creditors and wealthy citizens), such as inflationary monetary policy and progressive taxation.
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She might also be forced to think about what the Stark family, and the power it seeks, really means to the common people of Westeros — the people we don't typically hear from on the show.
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Nina Chanel Abney's work revisits democracy (from demokratia: the political authority of the common people), initiated by the Athenians in 510 BC. Ms Abney's cheerful palette and stencilled silhouettes belie her fraught depictions of race.
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To the common people of the Kingdoms, he seems to understand more what it means to "break the wheel" and usher in some semblance of representational government than a woman who came in dragons blazing.
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Whether he meant this or not, such statements alone restore agency to common people and signal that this election may be an occasion for Ukrainians to push for more transparent governance and greater public participation.
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" In the comments section, one person wrote: "Dear president and the Congress, you don&apost give us universal health care, you don&apost give the common people tax advantages, at least give back our time.
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All of the featured painters sought to elevate the common people, both in their work and their politics, and Sharrer's piece conveys the lovely sentiment of art having a place within the structure of the family.
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"There are many so-called possessed people who are not Catholic fanatics but common people who chose to move closer to the Church to help through a particularly difficult moment in their life," Di Giacomo explains.
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"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement, according to CNN.
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" And Melancton Smith, on June 21, 1788 stated: "The great consider themselves above the common people — entitled to more respect — do not associate with them — they fancy themselves to have a right of preeminence in everything.
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"Since then, I have a firm opinion that the most precious historical material is what is preserved in the memory of the common people," she said in an interview with the journal Revolutionary Democracy in 1999.
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Hofer and his party chairman, Heinz-Christian Strache, draw inspiration from Trump's stunning rise to the White House, echoing the president-elect's claims of fighting against a dominant liberal elite in the name of common people.
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As the narrator begins to take part in life there, sharing meals and sleeping in communal huts, she finds herself eager for the first time to imagine belonging to a common people with a common past.
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"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement issued by his office.
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The "yellow vest" demonstrators, named for high-visibility car jackets, began in mid-November over fuel taxes then broadened into a more general revolt against a political class they view as out of touch with common people.
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It's pretty sick, really, he's not qualified to do anything but be a dickhead with five billion dollars, he's not in touch with the common people; he's got no idea how to treat ladies, or anybody, really.
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"Half of the deaths are attributed not to Duterte's police but to vigilantes, ex-policemen, or, as the police spokesman told me when I interviewed him for my show, crimes of vengeance perpetrated by common people," he said.
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I'm mystified why worn clothing of this style, which seems like it would have been worn by common people would be presented as art objects, and I noticed this clothing or its like displayed by a few galleries.
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Also, limits it has put on policies that may be promoted and language that may be used, even though the policies may respond to commonly felt needs and the language may be taken for granted among common people.
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Just under 763 per cent of the 1,289 respondents surveyed at 400 polling stations across the Indonesian capital cited religion as the primary reason for backing Baswedan, followed by 14.9 per cent who cited "being with the common people".
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And Rome's politicians fear that if he rises to power, he will become a tyrant and take advantage of the common people, changing Rome from being a republic to being an empire ruled by an authoritarian leader: Caesar himself.
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But the people at the highest risk include family members of patients with active tuberculosis, the doctors and nurses caring for them and, in countries where tuberculosis is common, people living or working in crowded conditions, such as prisoners and miners.
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"Caputova has a history of fighting for the common people as a public-interest lawyer and brings much-needed non-confrontational style and liberal values to the public debate," Ivan Musak, 52, told Reuters at a polling station in Bratislava.
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He also read the works of Reinhold Niebuhr, whose concept of Christian realism led Barber toward a practical theology, a way of faith that is rooted in the struggles of common people and seeks justice and mercy against unfavorable odds.
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He channels his own uneasiness into a mechanism that gets his subjects—whether they're common people posing for a personal project, or celebrities like Tilda Swinton, Cat Power, and Billie Joe Armstrong, or even President Barack Obama—to open up.
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He was soon overtaken by younger writers: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, Erskine Caldwell, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck — all took inspiration from "Winesburg," with its simple, declarative rhythms and steadfast concern for the plight of common people.
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Here are five more things to check out: William Shatner is back at it, talk-singing famous songs in his confusingly husky voice (remember his "Common People" cover?), and Iggy Pop came along this time to sing "Silent Night" with him.
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People around the world see politicians as unsympathetic to common people and unable to effect change when elected, with more than half feeling dissatisfied with the state of democracy in their country, according to a survey of 27 nations by Pew Research Center.
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They are left with the role of addressing real threats, both cold and active, to stand up for American interests and her allies overseas, even when those allies are the common people under the boot of communism, the caliphate, or other petty tyrants.
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The word "vulgarity" is rooted in the Latin term for "the multitude"; to use coarse language is to speak in the tongue of the common people, and to reject the code of civility prescribed—if not always followed—by the political ruling class.
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VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - In 1819, mounted troops charged, swords drawn, into a pro-democracy protest in northern England, killing over a dozen people and wounding hundreds in what became a landmark event in the struggle to win common people the right to vote.
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Trey Edward Shults's "Waves" is another tragedy where the writing feels remembered; it's full of regular teenagers whose speech is neither too truculent nor exalted but vividly common; people speak less in the second half and Shults's powers of descriptive observation take over.
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Common people, most of whom couldn't afford books and wouldn't have been able to read them anyway, were left vulnerable to exploitation by powerful gatekeepers—landed élites, oligarchs of church and state—who could use their monopoly on knowledge to repress the masses.
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Benedict grills the cardinal, expressing irritation with his supposedly sympathetic statements about married priests ("misquoted," the Bergoglio character says) and homosexuality ("taken out of context"), and with the cardinal's giving communion to divorced Catholics (not denied) and popularity among the common people.
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These people include the laborers who built the city, the street urchins whose tears have soaked its pavements, and all generations of common people lacking the political or economic advantages of those who typically lay claim to management of our public memories.
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But even if you don't care about elections, "Newton" works on so many other levels - as a dark comedy, as the portrait of a naive man, and as the story of a land ravaged by war, where the biggest losers are the common people.
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"At the end of the day it's us common people who will pay the bill because fruits will become pricier," said one user on China's Twitter-like Weibo service, where the potential U.S.-China trade war ranked as the most-read topic on Friday.
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In a white paper last month, Beijing said Uyghurs "conversion to Islam was not a voluntary choice made by the common people, but a result of religious wars and imposition by the ruling class," in an apparent attempt to justify restrictions on the religion.
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"At the end of the day it's us common people who will pay the bill because fruits will become pricier," said one user on China's Weibo social media platform, where the prospects for a U.S.-China trade war ranked as the most read topic Friday.
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When his son is killed during a routine police check and the officer guilty of shooting him is declared innocent, Jefferson takes the entire police station hostage, staging an actual trial with inmates and common people in the jury to finally bring justice to his son.
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Shall good ideas win through rational discourse, sound science and solid evidence, or have we lost complete faith in the essential wisdom of the common people and thus must turn to stifling free speech and hunting down those who dare utter things that we find objectionable?
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Her best friend, the frizzy-haired aristocrat Varvara, becomes a Bolshevik activist whose speeches the book relates in full: "Far from improving the situation of the common people, the revolution in February has only increased your suffering," Varvara pontificates before a line of women on the street.
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Many of these influencers from outside the Seven Kingdoms provide necessary wisdom — helping reframe perspectives on people above and below the Wall, on gender roles, on the tenets and practices of different religions and on the damage caused by the civil war, especially to the common people.
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But when it's all done, Dany's staying pretty true to herself by valuing the common people — the rank-and-file soldiers in this case — more than the nobility, and being willing to make an example of her more powerful enemies in order to save lives down the road.
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My grandfather, a deeply committed Communist, told it and retold it to illustrate how the Soviet Union had heeded the needs of the common people and to draw a contrast with what he felt was a growing callousness and neglect for them in his town — and in Russia.
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Between 1943 and 1945, backed by the support of the common people and armed with weapons wrested from enemy hands, the Italian resistance undertook a guerrilla warfare campaign against the fascists and their Nazi allies, liberating cities, creating aid networks to help save POWs and Jews, and slaughtering the German invaders.
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You could see what he was thinking: that I would never understand, that I'd become one of them, the educated and distant elites whom the common people must teach a lesson by electing Donald Trump, a billionaire scam artist from New York City, as the President of the United States.
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Sure, you might find it hard to imagine crying over a movie about Winston Churchill — after all, you've seen The Crown already and you know the story — but there is one scene in the film, when the Prime Minister asks for advice from the common people that will fill you with emotion.
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Through the destruction or neglect of archives and libraries and the deliberate near-annihilation of artists and intellectuals, Cambodia's devastating civil war (1967–75) threatened the memory of the country's then-recent cultural production, known as the Sangkum Reastr Niyum (or the "Community of the Common People") period, from 1953 to 1970.
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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in response to the Great Depression, ushered through the biggest expansion of federal programs in our nation's history, he did so because he thought that government regulation was necessary to empower common people against corporations and banks but also that government should provide certain protections for its citizens.
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This self-centerdness makes them want to feel more important than others and better than common people — Karla Minerva Gutiérrez Guerra Two construction workers busy touching up the walls of a tomb with a two-story atrium, complete with giant fluorescent cross, explain that the plot they are working on will include a bathroom and air-conditioning.
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She is misguided revenge incarnate — killing Freys and Lannisters who couldn't possibly have been involved in the Red Wedding, hanging crowd favorite Podrick Payne, and taking over and corrupting the Brotherhood Without Banners, a band of outlaws that had been doing their best to protect the common people of the Riverlands against Northern raiders and the Bloody Mummers.
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If you answered Breitbart and Sean Hannity, he would disappear for a few weeks and re-emerge with "The Brothers Gracchi," a tale for the times about Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, two aristocrats who decided to Make Rome Great Again by rallying the common people and taking on the Acela Corridor — er, the privileged of Rome.
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"Still tears streaming down our eyes with his name and his memory ... and only with a vengeance on his killers Iran will lose a bit of our sadness ...Iran have nothing to do with the common people of US. Iran is taking revenge on US politicians," Reza told CNN through a Twitter message after the funeral.
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For instance, casting Trump as Julius Caesar (which presumably would be supported by those conservatives who think Caesar's the good guy) suggests that Trump, though portrayed with petulance, is still a charismatic war hero who has earned the love of the common people by vanquishing his enemies — a narrative certainly supported by the president and his own supporters.
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Also in the mix: A post touting how the internet era is favorable to libertarian ideals of "crypto-anarchism," comparing the age of the internet to the invention of the printing press:In the 15th century, the printing press pulled the monopoly on "information" away from the church and state, giving common people a chance to receive and promote different ideas.
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Discussing the Protestant Reformation, Mr Puchner rightly places texts—and the relatively new (to Europe, at least) technology of printing— squarely at the centre: "Luther, the poor monk who was merely pointing out abuses, who was learning how to speak to and for common people, managed to acquire more authority than the pope because he was an author; the pope was only the pope," he writes.
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Rather, it is a country whose population began to shrink 15 years before Japan's; a country whose leader declared in a 2006 address to the nation that the demographic crisis was "the most acute problem" facing his land; a country in which the battle between the rural "narod" (the common people) and the urban intelligentsia was a defining feature of political life for most of a violent century.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WASHINGTON, DC — There has long been a cultural fascination with the desks of writers and artists, as if we, the common people, could learn something about how creativity works through the way a genius organizes her books, letters, pens, and typewriter — or leaves everything in disarray, complete with half-eaten plates of food and a mess of papers cascading to the ground.
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The consequences are still coming to light, particularly the political ones: the rejection of the elite in favor of the so called "common people"; the tremendous crisis of the middle classes, the cornerstone of our liberal democracies, the rejection of moderates in favor of extremists, with their simplistic solutions for a complex world; the rejection of "experts" in favor of more or less ubiquitous obscurantism that is challenging knowledge, science and progress.
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