Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement sprang»

PES member parties across Europe joined forces to campaign for the European elections, and a mass grassroots movement sprang up in support of Martin Schulz, aiming to «knock the vote» in support of his candidacy.

This past staging of WBN saw a grassroots movement spring up after one of the previous years» titles, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, was banned in one US school system; a student and a few concerned citizens organized the funds and donations to distribute the book to all of the students who signed a petition to reinstate the title.

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Digital Technologies have completely reshaped how we go about every aspect of our lives: • Financial: our jobs, online shopping and banking, automated trading • Social: email, mobiles, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, blogs • Political: electronic voting, grassroots movements (Arab Spring) • Recreational: computer games, streaming video and music, augmented reality (Pokémon Go), fitness and activity monitoring (FitBit) • Educational: free access to information, web search (Google), collaborative resources (Wikipedia), online learning (Khan Academy) and MOOCs, learning analytics • Ethical: privacy and cyber security, data protection (Facebook, the census)

Tension has been high with developers already hotly debating the merits of the hard fork (a grassroots movement has sprung up in opposition as well), even though the change is not slated for more than two months from now.