She wants to rely on grass-roots activists she knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Trench Warfare] Reference

Still, he has retained some genuine grass-roots backing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting for Moderation] Reference

A new dialogue between business and grass-roots activists.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Non-Fuzzy Earth Day] Reference

Links grass-roots activists to share ideas and approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Help] Reference

But it has been wary of taking on large, grass-roots movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power Of The 'Force'] Reference

And in the Democratic Party, grass-roots activists are liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference

This past year alone, grass-roots organizations in Missoula, Mont.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Coop de Ville] Reference

"I think we survived because we had a grass-roots base," says chairman Julian Bond.    From Wordnik.com.  [A CIVIL-RIGHTS ENGINE IMPLODES] Reference

Rock the Vote's media campaign also reflects their new focus on grass-roots efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock On] Reference

Pandering to grass-roots nationalism helps compensate for its own lack of legitimacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASIA: FURIES UNLEASHED] Reference

It's also seasoned grass-roots field organization versus full-service media campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitching The President] Reference

Now AOL is shepherding ICQ gingerly so as not to disrupt the service's grass-roots swell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friendly Virus] Reference

A handful of foreign-funded grass-roots organizations run programs to help women in Kosovo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War's Hidden Tragedy] Reference

Trippi had already decided to begin a Web-based grass-roots movement to push liberal issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEAN'S NET EFFECT IS JUST THE START] Reference

Historically, that transition was preceded by grass-roots uprisings like the Taiping Rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apocalypse When] Reference

A decade after the Berlin wall's collapse, a grass-roots revolt is once again sweeping the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freedom To Shop] Reference

He's counting on grass-roots support from a campaign to break up the nation's big white-owned farms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will It Play In Harare?] Reference

Still, as the only challenger, Bradley stands to inherit any grass-roots disaffection with the administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference

He knows India intimately at the grass-roots level and is connected with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Prince, Not Leader] Reference

In developing countries from Thailand to Nigeria, grass-roots campaigns against corruption are gaining strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corruption] Reference

The political-movement activists you mistake for the "common man" are not representative of grass-roots concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Than A Thousand Words] Reference

Like its grass-roots corollary, the jury system, the Supreme Court is an improbable ideal that works most of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [KEEPING THE ROBES CLEAN] Reference

Now opposition to "unilateral war" is the centerpiece of a campaign that has developed some early grass-roots momentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dovish Democrats] Reference

In the long run, the ANC will alienate its grass-roots supporters if they come to see it as the party of the lucky few.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Life For a Few] Reference

Edwards, who has carefully nurtured his grass-roots base and online presence, is expected to do well in that regard, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Money Myth] Reference

"" Politics is harder than it looks, '' said conservative activist Grover Norquist, an experienced grass-roots organizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget The Angry Voter. The Hacks Are Back.] Reference

Still, as many as 1,000 demonstrators and grass-roots organizers from across China have already converged on the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing Down The House] Reference

Last week grass-roots activists got seven states to approve term limits on their state ballots, bringing the total to 29.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye Welfare State] Reference

Lieberman is going to get a primary challenger for his Senate seat next year if me and a lot of grass-roots groups have our way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kos-Eye View] Reference

Hillary is mounting a campaign of her own to counter the often phony grass-roots opposition ginned up by special-interest groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Hard Sell] Reference

It's hard to imagine a Sri Lankan peasant or a Zimbabwean weaver at such talkfests -- other than at special "grass-roots" exhibits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Cause Is It, Anyway?] Reference

I would like to start a grass-roots American medical-relief group to duplicate what we were able to do in Sri Lanka on a larger scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [THEY NEEDED TO KNOW THE WORLD CARED] Reference

It was worse to cite the ladies 'auxiliary of the Democratic Party-identified as "the feminists" - as an example of grass-roots heroism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Than A Thousand Words] Reference

Chinese officials insist that a Seoul or a Mexico City can't happen in their coun-try, and grass-roots support for the Games is overwhelming.    From Wordnik.com.  [GAMES AND GRIEVANCES] Reference

Perhaps the biggest winners of all are the independent forces in politics: groups that are supposed to express the grass-roots will of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Everything Will Change.' Or Not.] Reference

Likewise, the American grass-roots organization Chefs for Humanity has teamed with UNICEF and other aid organizations to mobilize culinary relief efforts in Congo and Sudan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Them Eat … CSB?] Reference

But only in this helium market would grass-roots investors assume that the price will always move high enough, fast enough, to cover the cost of the option plus sales commissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Before The Fall?] Reference