1.  Anyway, haven't we had enough of ordinary people doing psychological (and sometimes literal) stripteases on daytime television?

2.  Democracy is based on the idea that ordinary people can influence the decision makers who affect their lives.

3.  D'Amato said Thursday that it was time for him to move on to the pressing issues that face ordinary people, especially the impending crisis in Medicare.

4.  Diana connected with ordinary people to a degree that was fully evident only in her death.

5.  Disappointment ripples through the hearts of ordinary people who merely wanted a president, legislator, mayor, or pastor to play by the most basic rules.

6.  Doctorow's book weaves a complex and fascinating tale of famous figures from the era touching the lives of ordinary people and vice versa.

7.  Deeply valued by the ordinary people whose lives they touch, they will never make headlines.

8.  Douglas E. Ramage, director of the Asia Foundation's Jakarta office, criticized some of Nugroho's ads as artsy and indirect and not appealing to ordinary people.

9.  Democrats, from Clinton on down, have cast themselves as defenders of the worker against Republicans, whom they accuse of putting businesses above ordinary people.

10.  Democrats, nearly broke as a party, responded by releasing an ad that questioned whether Republicans care about ordinary people.