Sentences with phrase «powerful grass roots»

This is one of the most powerful grass roots things I have ever been associated with.

Not exact matches

However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.

«Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District is a reliable Republican stronghold, but the grass - roots energy behind Democrats has proven powerful this year, and we will be closely tracking this district and special election,» said Meredith Kelly, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Her parents had not known that Pillai was a grass - roots organizer taking on the powerful coal mining interests and the government.

In 2003 along with the rest of the PURE staff, she won the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award, recognizing powerful grass - roots leadership.

All it shows is that involvement in a popular mass movement is a powerful drug for grass roots politicians, just as geo - political speculation is for a certain kind of armchair social scientist.