Sentence examples similar to grass roots pressure from inspiring English sources

Grass-roots pressure led to the opening of the State Department's office on human trafficking.

Grass-roots pressure from such groups is a formidable influence on Congress.

With Chinese nationals accounting for the majority of the 239 people aboard Flight 370, Beijing faces considerable "grass-roots pressures that it has capabilities it can deploy in China's interests.

It is to limit the voices of the liberals; it is to limit grass-roots pressure for reform".

"There's a lot of grass-roots pressure on them to act, but I think they'll do the smart thing and exhibit restraint".

We want to provide them with grass-roots pressure to go in the right direction, to be the voice of the people".

At the same time, conservative groups, in a counteroffensive of Internet organization, news conferences and phone banks, vowed to redouble their effort to build grass-roots pressure for Mr. Ashcroft's nomination.

Such a division of power would leave the military under a single commander in chief and could protect the Brotherhood from grass-roots pressure on vexing matters of foreign policy, like relations with Israel.

David Gibson, a Catholic writer whose book "The Coming Catholic Church" describes a newly powerful grass-roots pressure for reform in the aftermath of the priest sexual abuse scandal, said the archdiocesan foray into talk radio may reflect some official acknowledgment of the need for a new, more interactive relationship with believers.

In 2008, a grass roots movement had begun to pressure Canadien management to retire Bouchard's #3.

Wendell Potter: It is just known that there are people that can be counted on; and one of the things, too, to keep in mind that the insurers have done a lot of, and it is not just insurers who have done this, but they will put ads on in the districts where they are from to pressure them, and they will bring pressure in a grass roots way on the members of congress.