Sentence examples for grassroots forces from inspiring English sources

Several dozen of the country's leading industrial firms, now including GE, have taken voluntary steps to curb emissions.There are grassroots forces pushing for change as well.

When asked Thursday whether Republicans should reject Rove, Akin left that decision in the hands of the same grassroots forces.

But Warren is keenly attuned to progressive grassroots forces, who are demanding dramatic solutions to the challenges of concentrated wealth and rising inequality.

He sees himself as a representative of the grassroots forces that have emerged outside the ballot box on the left, like the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and more recently, the nationwide progressive campaign to raise the minimum wage.

How can we mobilize grassroots forces, alternative technology, and progressive public officials to fundamentally change the laws and public policies that are driving us to the brink of disaster?

"These demonstrations represent a new grassroots force made possible by social media tools such as Weibo (China's Twitter), the messenger service QQ and online forums," said Monica Tan, a Web editor with Greenpeace East Asia, writing on The Diplomat blog.

Yet to ignore the campaign would be to sadly, gravely miss the point: a new grassroots force seems to have found a unified voice in the unlikeliest of places.

You take great pains to paint yourselves as a large grassroots force, but everything suggests the opposite.

In just a few months, Kim's one-woman crusade has grown into Citizens for Compatible Development, a grassroots force to be reckoned with.

Another important grassroots force for food sovereignty is the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC by its Spanish acronym), whose members are both farmers and farmworkers.

Thus, the rich history of this grassroots force tends to be ignored entirely or trivialized as a bunch of rubes who had some arcane quibble involving the free coinage of silver.