Sentence examples for grassroots opposition from inspiring English sources

The measure failed last spring after a firestorm of grassroots opposition.

The anger over this legislation is mounting, thanks to grassroots opposition.

The party's leadership was shocked at the level of grassroots opposition to a language act.

Often grassroots opposition and mobilization is seen through a secular lens, implying that collective action is merely material and provincial.

That bill stalled due to grassroots opposition and parliamentary stone-walling by the Democratic majority leader Harry Reid.

Wright notes the grassroots opposition to the "bathroom bill," but that's not the only thing that Texans are organizing against.

And crucially, in championing it against fierce grassroots opposition Cameron was "putting people before party", says Boles.

However, it stemmed primarily from the populace's ingrained and instinctive conservatism, which only the gradual development of a grassroots opposition movement was later able to overcome.

President Obama was twice defeated last month on matters of national and international importance, by grassroots opposition and resistance from within his own party.

More recently, following the Arab Spring protests across north Africa and the Middle East, a grassroots opposition movement has been growing.

But the warning shot fired by the self-styled The Junior Doctors indicates continuing grassroots opposition to the new contracts despite Hunt's effort last Thursday to quell unrest.