Sentence examples for grass roots up from inspiring English sources

"He reaches across the aisle and he knows his constituency from the grass roots up".

Fan power from the grass roots up did the same on Wimbledon Common.

"We built from the grass roots up, not from the network down".

"I've watched him from the grass roots up, watched him go right through the system," Mr. Skillen said.

On settling on a particular style, and building from the grass roots up: "If you talk about Brazil, you know how Brazil plays.

Mr. Sudarshan's movement, which is striving to build a Hindu nation from the grass roots up, is purist in its ideology.

The offerings include snazzy touring exhibitions, chancy curatorial endeavors and an informal focus on grass-roots, up-and-coming contemporary artists.

Not only are grass roots organizations up in arms against the proposed plant, so are national environmental groups such as Sierra Club and Audubon Society as well as more local groups such as North Carolina Conservation Network, Cape Fear Riverwatch, North Carolina Coastal Federation, Friends of the Lower Cape Fear, just to name a few.

But what their opponents lack in mobilizing the grass roots, they make up for in money and powerful connections.

If applied fertilizer is not absorbed by the grass roots, it ends up in the aquifers and water-supply system, encouraging the growth of algae and cutting off the supply of oxygen in the water.

And a stop-the-euro grass roots movement set up late this summer by an umbrella group of trade unions, academics and businessmen already has 1,000 members, according to Panos Mavroetis, an engineer in the private sector who is one of the group's organizers.