Sentences with phrase «where grass roots»

Local boards, especially ones that are elected are where the grass roots candidate can get their start.

The place where grass roots prevention must ultimately take place is at the point where alcoholism begins — in the home.

Not exact matches

Where the Church is identified with these national state institutions, as is largely the case, its influence at the grass roots level reinforces the reign of these obsolete institutions and policies.

At Amazing Grass our roots run deep... Back to our family farm in Kansas, where for over 3 generations Amazing Grass has organically grown & harvested the most nutrient - dense greens on earth.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

Grass roots is where it begins.

At least one example where the money didn't reach the grass roots.

And even though the inevitable corruption (that type of money turns even the saints into black - marketers) eventually rot everything all through the nineties the attempt by BCCI (India's cricket governing body) to better market the game was very well balanced with grass - root level development and had helped to create an ecosystem where children from backgrounds that could never dream of playing even for their state team can now aspire to be an international cricketer.

«Much greater reform in football is needed to make the game inclusive, sustainable and driven from the grass roots, where it should be,» John Whittingdale, chair of the committee, said.

The situation is one where MPs are effectively being asked to do two jobs: by a local problem - fixer and grass - roots issue solver, whilst also being a national lawmaker / scrutinser.

Now, Pellegrino, a reading teacher from West Islip who helped found a grass - roots activist group of former Bernie Sanders supporters, had a county executive, a county party chairman and the state comptroller at a fundraiser where the turnout, at 150, more than doubled what organizers had anticipated.

Unlike GOP primaries, where a handful of big spending conservative groups can influence races, the Democratic grass roots — including liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which is pleading with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)

Where supporters once hoped that she could be toughened and pushed strategically on some key issues, the campaign to ban fracking started with grass - roots activists.

As the permafrost disappears, carbon - rich material like grass roots, once trapped in icy soil, sinks to lake bottoms, where bacteria convert it into the greenhouse gas methane.

At Amazing Grass our roots run deep... Back to our family farm in Kansas, where for over 3 generations Amazing Grass has organically grown & harvested the most nutrient - dense greens on earth.

The concentrations were lowest in the eastern and far western states where the soil had been tilled the longest, and were highest in Deaf Smith County, Texas, where excavations proved the roots of the wheat grass to pass down six feet or more through three feet of top soil into deposits of glacial pebbles cemented together with calcium carbonate.

«The Learning on Country project is a grass roots community - based approach to generating an education program where four communities got together and decided they wanted to put something far more structured, sustainable and permanent around this notion of Learning on Country, and so they got together, formed a steering committee, engaged with government to get some funding, and that was the genesis of the four pilot trials that I've been working with recently.»

Jelani began his career in education reform 11 years ago as a community organizer and youth worker at Mikva Challenge, where he developed curriculum to train teachers in grass roots activism and supported over 5,000 high school students» activism projects.

The granules are applied from fence to fence and curb to curb and then blasted with water into the dirt under the root structure of the grass where the fleas live.

If your holiday is planned and it is to revolve around fresh water & power please do not think about making a booking on any of the 3 islands as services are not guaranteed... The Gili islands are very much grass roots with really very little development...... This just will not be your type of holiday... Embrace simplicity as there are few places in this world that are easy to access, but where you can still have a remote experience.

It comes from the grass roots level and hopefully, that's where it will stay».

It shows we've reached a tipping point, where our elected leaders, CEOs and grass - roots advocates and automakers all agree it makes sense to power cars with cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity.

However, if we really want the world to change, this grass - roots movement must move its way up to where the «big money» is.

Prior to joining JMBM, Matthew worked for five years as an appellate attorney in the Environment & Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in the federal courts of appeals; for four years as an attorney at Paul Hastings, where he advised and represented corporate clients in environmental and real estate matters; for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and for two years as a supervising attorney and lecturer at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matters.

With the growing level of inequality that is now occurring in Australia and the corresponding declining taxation revenue as a proportion of GDP, we may well be heading for a period where we need to return to grass roots community activism to achieve the changes that are needed for our people.

It must come from the grass roots and the West is always a great place where reform starts.