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Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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"It makes it almost impossible for a dark horse to win," said Dayton Duncan, who worked on the 1984 and 1988 Democratic presidential races of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis and wrote "Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary".
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So we have to do it at the grass roots level and one day the hierarchy will turn around to see who is following them and nobody will be there.
Performance critiques provided by the grass roots workers, like this one, should be used for institutional learning and effective preparedness planning.
Build a grass roots following early on.
Since that event (like all citizen deliberation events) was the kind of grass roots democracy-building exercise that one would expect to be trumpeted from the heights of liberalism, one must ask: What's going on here?
Their difference is more about how change can be made -- will it all come from the inside through an inherently conservative, compromised and bureaucratic political process or does their need to be pressure from the outside at the grass roots or "street heat" as one of the Reverend's supporters put it?
One solution is to help promote one of the grass roots Initiatives championing legislation for a national tax incentive plan for the investors that fund all types of startups and small businesses.
The ants actively protect the aphids ([ 52], A.B.F. Ivens, personal observation) and keep them in specially constructed 'aphid-chambers', cavities around grass-roots with one or several aphids.
Grass Roots juries do not so much compare one artist with another as decide which artists merit an exhibition of their own.
"Look, I used to be one of those activists who said, 'Ask the grass roots people to speak; bring the real people on,"' Ensler says.
I picture one friend telling another; a grass roots approach to fame.
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