Idiom
Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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Many analysts and diplomats believe that the current transitional government, led by moderate Islamists, has the best chance to bring stability in years because it has grass-roots support.
Admittedly almost every major city in the world has grass roots orgs dedicated to public art documentation and probably a thriving art scene and audience.
I do agree with his brief acknowledgment, in closing, that it is best to have "grass roots movements" drive reform.
What's better is having grass roots movements that drive agencies toward real regulation.
"We have grass roots," Mr. Makhyoun added, "and they don't agree on the choice of ElBaradei".
Where you have grass-roots movements that want to build inclusive institutions, we can enhance them.
In recent weeks, however, the ecnonomy has begun to pick up again, and so have grass-roots calls for reform.
Rock has its own grass-roots repertory institutions: cover bands, the kind you can hear at Bleecker Street bars playing the music of the Beatles or Bruce Springsteen.
It has been a grass roots, organic approach without a huge PR machine behind her.
Falk also shared that "we [at Eton] have had a grass root movement in the company where many employees have supported the Movember movement by growing mo's and raising money.
More recently, Mr. Morsi has faced widening discontent over his leadership and the state of the economy, and that has fueled grass roots campaigns to undermine his legitimacy.
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