Sentence examples for grass roots citizens from inspiring English sources

His company explained it was just trying to encourage "grass roots citizens to promote the propagation of the Gospel" and that many of the workers were "converted to the Christian faith and return to China with Bibles in hand".

We have also been working for some time to encourage the citizen sector to understand that it can and must develop broad grass roots citizen bases of support.

If the ability to raise money trumps all the other considerations in running for office, Ms. Hutchins said, "I think there is a real danger that those who make it to the top will focus on reflecting the views of those who made their campaigns possible, and not the views of ordinary grass-roots citizens".

Still, the greatest changes to the citizen-government relationship appear to be those created at the grass roots by citizens, instead of those initiated from the top-down by governments.

It's time for a grass roots movement where citizens get involved in politics from the ground up, learning the system as they go.

The effort leading to the ban was organized by a grass-roots citizens group that calls itself "Andes Works!".

The group has fostered grass-roots "citizens' groups" that it says are intended to protect Greek citizens from crime by immigrants but that critics say are just vigilante squads.

A video produced by a grass-roots citizens group here is challenging a municipal plan to redevelop the downtown and, in the process, reformatting civic activism for the age of the Internet.

"From an energy point of view, we support it," said Neal M. Lewis, the executive director of the Long Island Neighborhood Network, a grass-roots citizens' group with an office in Massapequa.

Another political battle between a grass-roots citizens group and City Hall erupted this week when City Atty.

A grass-roots citizens movement scored an improbable victory to make South Dakota the first state in a decade to adopt..