Sentence examples for grass roots infrastructure from inspiring English sources

With so much grass roots infrastructure already in place, we will also be ready to win a plebiscite if one is held.

Mr. Obama's campaign has had to spend heavily on its vaunted grass-roots infrastructure, posting $3 million in payroll costs in July.

But, he said, such a grass-roots infrastructure presents many challenges.

"If we're ever going to win public policy battles at the federal, state or local level," he said, "we have got to build a grass-roots infrastructure that can match what they do on the ground in these states".

"Our plan is to continue to build our grass-roots infrastructure each and every year to continue to engage in policy fights at all levels of government," Zvonek said.

"A lot of attention is given to the TV ads we run or the direct mail, but our real strength is our grass-roots infrastructure — our ability to have conversations with Coloradans on the phone or at their doorsteps".

Sure, campaign funds go to grass roots organizing and building an infrastructure (with plenty of help from parties and unions), but the bulk of a campaign budget is in ads.

Julie Foudy, another former star player turned analyst, explained the stakes: "The U.S. is at such an advantage because we have funding, we have support, we have an infrastructure, we have great grass roots.

"The whole ecology of the arts infrastructure in Glasgow has been based on the grass roots, gritty do-it-yourself attitude," Mr. Watt said.

Then, as now, the former Massachusetts governor needed to leverage his advantages — money and infrastructure — to turn back a threat from the party's grass roots.

"It is all grass roots.