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Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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But don't miss "Park Avenue," a slide show of leaves, grasses, roots and pods arranged into exquisite and antic, often figural, assemblages that show Ms. Trockel the naturalist at her most beautifully ephemeral, or "Atheism," a possible homage to Beuys (or elephants or Surrealism).
The over-emphasis placed on the funding of elite athletes has too often left the grass roots starved and withering, while those sports without world-class performers, often for purely cyclical reasons, find themselves struggling because the funding tap has been precipitously turned off.
The big guys should do the big guy thing (with integrity) and leave the grass roots efforts to the DIY crowd.
The Biospheric Foundation has received a £300,000 sponsorship deal from Salford City Council, whose new elected city mayor, Ian Stewart says: This is a flagship project for Salford - transforming a disused, former printing works into a world-first eco-centre which will have huge grass roots involvement and leave a lasting legacy for the local community.
We slid down the grass to the stream and then, when climbing out to leave, grabbed the heavy grass roots and inched ourselves up slowly.
In the bitter winters, grass roots, leaves and even animal parts froze before they could decompose.
On the left, grass-roots Democrats have made aggressive use of online organizing and fund-raising techniques to decentralize their own party and break the monopoly the wealthy once had on political cash.
Australopithecus robustus, one of the early human predecessors that populated parts of Africa more than a million years ago, has long been thought to have been largely a vegetarian because its flat teeth and huge jaw muscles seemed adapted for chewing woody food like leaves, grasses and roots.
They said, "Since you left the Christian Coalition, we haven't had a lean, mean operation focused on the grass roots".
Engaging the grass roots in policymaking as the Pirates do through online "liquid democracy"—is now all the rage, from left to right.
Change the grass roots.
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