Idiom
Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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"Naturally, it has to look after the grass roots because swimming is the only sport that can save your life," said Moorhouse.
"I see this as a crucial part of Labour's rejuvenation in the long term going back to the grass roots, because I don't see Westminster Labour coming up with the solutions any time soon".
In conclusion, the findings have led us to a hypothesis for field testing that, in terms of carbon, pine roots decompose to soil humus slower than grass roots because of differences between ecosystems in both root litter quality and soil environment as determined by the plant species growing.
The vehicle for that focus took form spontaneously from the grass roots, because our leaders have proved inadequate to the task.
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"The reason 2009 was so successful for the grass roots was because the politicians never saw it coming," said Jennifer Stefano, the state director for the Pennsylvania chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a Tea Party group.
Some of the momentum starts at the grass roots level because employees are starting to use them.
It cannot ignore the grass roots of its communities because those communities are the base audiences.
Diana Nammi, the founder of IKWRO, said yesterday: "The Forced Marriage Unit has been excellent but it needs grass roots organisations like us because we are closer to the front line and come face to face with the victims.
"I consider myself a grass roots site in that regard because I'm never going to be overly commercialized," he said.
Because of that grass roots push, President Obama and the Democrats moved on key issues, like getting "don't ask, don't tell" repealed in the last days of Democratic control of Congress, a full two years into Obama's administration.
"There is always a challenge when you get into difficult moments like the one we're in right now, closer and closer to the end of the campaign, especially for the kind of grass roots movement that Bernie has built, because you're bringing in a lot of people into the political process who never were involved in politics before," he said.
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