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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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God forbid, that a small grass roots group of people stand up to the political establishment and say, Where are your clothes, and you are looking kinda funny...?" The reason we are getting our heads handed to us is a small group of people think they know more than they really do.
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There are also plenty of smaller grass roots events like Mobile Geeks of London, Swedish beers and Unlimited Drinks. .
It has only a small grass-roots following in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Although countering violent extremism is a policy priority for the United Nations, it does not have the ready ability to provide financing to small grass-roots organizations that do that work, American officials said.
"Historic preservation has grown from small grass-roots organizations into a larger part of the fund-raising world," Alan G. Neumann, a board member of Hudson River Heritage, said.
Even the purest campaign-finance overhaul advocates have trouble faulting small grass-roots contributions: most of the $750 million that Mr. Obama raised in the 2008 presidential campaign or the $14 million that Sharron Angle, the Tea Party-supported Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada, raised over the past three months.
Some oil companies have evolved toward supporting smaller, grass root self-help projects in collaboration with non-governmental organisations or external development agencies.
Mr. Brock said there was particular interest in organizing primaries by state populations: small states would go first, allowing candidates an opportunity to do small-scale grass-roots politicking; the biggest states would go last.
These are small, grass-roots efforts.
The country still lacks a centre-left, social-democratic party, and the most charismatic alternative candidate was running for a small centrist party with little grass-roots organisation.
The PfP remains, purposefully, small and grass roots.
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