Idiom
Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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"It's going to take resources," said Mr. Griffin, who added that he intended to tap "major donors around the country, as well as grass roots and online".
The president's move has set the stage for a political showdown in Washington where the cable industry has been left looking flat-footed by a vocal and well- organised grass roots opposition.
Their public performance-protests – and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of two members – have been well-documented, and grass roots groups globally have sported their trademark Day-Glo dresses and balaclavas in order to protest against these sentences.
Both of these leaders are charismatic, in their 50s, widely admired, and good at details as well as at rousing grass roots enthusiasm.
They say they are starting to see a groundswell of opposition to Mr. McCain among conservative leaders, as well as at the grass roots, especially on talk radio.
This is the ideological content of fascism's historical electorate, as well as Trump's "grass roots".
Wells expects that its grass roots campaign to peddle more financial products will enable its investment, insurance and trust businesses to account for 25% of the company's net income by 2003, up from 15% today.
The UUP has supposedly spent the past month busily consulting the party's grass roots, as well as Catholic church leaders and Protestant businessmen.
Better fund-raising totals can serve as evidence that a campaign is well-organized, or has more grass roots support, which are indicators of candidate strength regardless of how the candidate actually deploys her financial resources.
Evidence of rapid OC preservation in Yedoma deposits includes in situ ancient grass roots and well-preserved mammal carcasses.
Scholars at a recent government conference summed it up well: China is "unstable at the grass roots, dejected at the middle strata and out of control at the top .Once, the party could bottle up dissent.
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