Sentences with phrase «grassroots people»

We've struck a leadership task force that's out in the field, trying to identify grassroots people with leadership potential.

While working effectively with government the National Representative Body will be accessible to grassroots people so that they feel a sense of ownership.

Is accessible to grassroots people, that they feel some ownership of and is there to truly represent their needs and take their local issues to higher levels for action, as well as regional, State, and national

It'd be interesting to check if the consultancy has been blogflogging their business pretending to be grassroots people.

, on rescue parade to meet the grassroots people.

Odogwu made this assertion while appraising effort made by the Okowa led administration in Delta State to make life meaningful for the people, which he highlighted some key economic programmes for the grassroots people, which he stated that these policies were capable of tackling the challenges the people currently contends with.

The idea is not entirely new, but echoes what the mass movements of the indigenous, environmentalists, feminists and all grassroots people have been saying for a long time.

In Minjung theology it is a truism that the question of power can not be separated from the life of the Minjung grassroots people in history.

Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and others who are seeking to create a world that is safe for all.

«I've always been a grassroots person,» remarked Jackson.

The National President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel has threatened to mobilize the grassroot people against any state Governor...

We are going to take governance to the grassroot people,» he said.

Not exact matches

My local colleagues and friends were happy to recommend the best bookstores to do readings, and the same people became my grassroots advocates when it came to hyping up my events.

And when you're building a grassroots organization from the bottom up, the first person gets the next one involved.

When we launched a grassroots PR stunt in Central Park last year and asked people to share their dreams with us, we discovered how to deliver our message to engage with potential customers and also gathered behavioral data points to help drive our future marketing decisions.

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

The real key for grassroots social change is to engage as many people as possible.

«If people begin to be turned off by Trump, the Cruz campaign will probably have a better strategic understanding of the implications and how to capitalize upon them,» said Bud Jackson, a Democratic specialist in digital grassroots campaigning, when asked to review the relationships.

A grassroots #DeleteUber campaign over the perception that Uber was trying to take advantage of immigration ban protests at JFK led to about a half million people requesting to delete their Uber accounts over the course of a week, according to the New York Times.

Top Republican insiders are not so quietly taking up Ryan as the one person who could unite the warring establishment and grassroots conservative wings of the party.

And Parkland, Florida, where the shooting took place, is exactly the kind of reasonably diverse and upscale suburban district where Donald Trump's brand of culture - war politics has alienated most people and inspired tons of new grassroots organizing.

Jason Kenney has repeatedly expressed his wish for policies from the Grassroots that will reflect the people he represents; this is called democracy.

In one sense it's a democratic process, beginning with a grassroots conviction that a given person lived a holy life.

«Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face - to - face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America.

In my book on Chile, I was trying to hold up examples of what was in fact done, both by the bishops and by the grassroots church, to break the hold of the state on people's imagination.

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

The 15 people who make up the Emergent Coordinating Group may constitute the organizational heart of the movement, but the Emergent conversation itself happens primarily at the grassroots level through Web sites, Web logs (or «blogs»), regional cohorts and conferences.

This important activity provided a necessary ingredient for the development of national democratic life» that process of grassroots self - organization that turns a «mass» or a «mob» into a people.

Through information and support we empower people at a grassroots level rather than leaving them dependent on medicalised «experts» and large transnational companies.

A grassroots organisation has been launched to advocate for disabled people, as government cuts affecting vulnerable people are set to continue.

The recent grassroots movements popping up are showing that people are tired of deception.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

I was intrigued to learn there is a grassroots movement in China to get people to finish all of their meals.

BakeSpace is an independent, grassroots community created by and for people who enjoy cooking, baking, and hanging out in the kitchen.

Campaigns such as Meat Free Monday have been playing a vital role in shaping the conversation at a grassroots level, helping educate people about the importance of eating with their health, and the planet, in mind.

We can continue to bounce our heads off the wall with his conduct, or we can decide that the institutions of our country are more important, that people are more important, that the decent America that we all thought we had and want is more important, and get down to business at a grassroots level and do what we have to do.

Luke Harper, HSBC UK's head of the partnership with British Cycling, commented: «Getting people to fall in love again with cycling is what our partnership with British Cycling is all about, whether it is to compete at grassroots level, to get fit or as a cheap way to travel to work.

The HSBC UK Let's Ride series of events is designed with grassroots cycling in mind, giving people the opportunity of seeing some of our finest cities on a closed road circuit, with additional events for all the family.

Local organizations, local corporations, local people who create their own «revolutions» (think about a Tea Party - type grassroots movement, but aimed at improving food service in the schools) and then take the actions needed to effect the change they seek!

Those are just the tools — to put them to work, the campaign will need an email strategy, a recruitment strategy, a social media strategy, a grassroots strategy (often including a mobile component), an advertising strategy, a fundraising strategy, and last but never least, a turnout operation to actually get people to vote.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

We are all just regular people, with regular jobs and regular families and friends, a real grassroots campaign.

Here's one thing Democrats and the progressive movement can do to help right now: launch a grassroots - focused campaign to leverage the millions of people who have solid health insurance thanks to Barack Obama and the Democrats.

Individual biographies are important because they provide insights into people's understandings of themselves and «the state», help us to appreciate how these understandings shift over time and space, and enable us to explore the role that involvement in grassroots politics plays in those shifts.

There would be more grassroots campaigning as people felt they could actually change things for the better without having to wait for a general election.

A grassroots campaign like this would be online - focused, of course, since email and the social web are where we now live much of our lives, but it could also have a strong on - the - ground component as well, enabled by the local social - welfare organizations that have helped sign people up all over the country.

At 11:15 a.m., legal organizations, family members and grassroots community groups present a letter to NYPD Inspector General, Philip Eure, demanding a probe into the department's anti-gang methods, including how people end up on «gang» databases, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«We have gotten a tremendous response from people at the grassroots level who recognize that I will be someone who fights for them in Albany.

It was partly due to people like Noble that Duggan, a longtime political operative and former Detroit Medical Center CEO who spent most of his life in suburban Livonia, managed to win so much grassroots support.