Sentence examples for groundswell from from inspiring English sources

"They say, 'It doesn't save money for the company, so why do I care?' There has to be a groundswell from the employees".

The new party is driven by a collection of elites, not a groundswell from the streets, starting with Bernd Lucke, 50, a Hamburg economics professor.

Mr. DelBello said he hoped for a groundswell from taxpayer groups, business associations, PTA's and others to demand less provincialism and more change for the greater good.

And it's appropriate, perhaps, that this came about not because of some political effort from the top but simply because of an emotional groundswell from below.

"I'll be honest with you," said Kevin Z. Smith, chairman of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists, "there's no groundswell from citizens' groups' saying, stop paying for stories because you're tainting the truth".

The groundswell from the speech had by this time risen so high that Eisenhower went out to the Wheeling airport to tell his much younger partner, "You're my boy".

QUESTION FROM GROUNDSWELL: It seemed that with McCain and Obama as candidates in 2008, there was a bipartisan recognition in the importance of environmental reform.

All ocean waves are too complex to predict in any detail, even in laboratory conditions, but beach breaks are, among surf spots, an especially unpredictable species, and Ocean Beach, which receives an unusual amount of groundswell, mainly from the North Pacific, and is also raked daily by great tidal currents, is as complicated a proposition as any surf spot I've seen.

The term "experience economy" might refer to the broader groundswell away from owning and towards doing, but these one-off voucher-bought evenings are its most vivid manifestation.

Alan J. Gerson of Manhattan, for example, lost to Margaret Chin, who is likely to have benefited from the groundswell of support from Asian-Americans for John C. Liu's candidacy for comptroller.

His decision on Tuesday to reverse himself by calling for a referendum to test the British electorate's commitment to the European Union is characteristic of Mr. Blair's political style: when a groundswell of dissent from the tabloid press and from opposition parties challenged his refusal to put a new constitution to a vote, Mr. Blair simply shifted political gears.