1.   A lot of hard work by ordinary citizens eventually brought the changes about.

2.   And for better or worse, the new interactivity brings enormous political leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost.

3.   But his main ploy was to portray Weld as a friend of the rich eager to reduce educational opportunities for ordinary citizens.

4.   But most ordinary citizens - buffeted by price rises and aware of worsening poverty in the slums - remain unimpressed.

5.   Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political Decisions that affect their lives and property.

6.   It follows that ordinary citizens have a commensurate right to demand an accounting of regulatory costs as they do of taxes.

7.   New methods and new systems must be devised to enable ordinary citizens to reach responsible and informed judgments.

8.   Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.

9.   Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food, services and petrol.

10.   Our political system should give ordinary citizens more power.