But every single time, a grass-roots uprising has put it right back on the table.
"It's a grass-roots product that we developed out of frustration and necessity, " says Mr. McCausland.
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Activist groups have long used Web sites, grass-roots email campaigns and videos to publicize their causes.
The grass-roots campaign, which ran from Saturday through Monday, wasn't affiliated with any opposition group.
It is why we give back to the game at the junior and grass-roots level.
Climate change has too often been an issue that is Washington-focused rather than grass-roots focused.
Most of the biggest policy breakthroughs in recent history have depended on strong grass-roots mobilization.
There's no great mystery about it: That's what happens to localized and decentralized grass-roots movements.
"The whole campaign has had that kind of grass-roots element to it, " Mr. Myers said.
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In Italy, a grass-roots campaign has gathered more than 2m signatures for global abolition.
What is needed is a grass-roots movement similar to MADD that encompasses all aspects of society.
Our small grass-roots movement grew into a groundswell that radically changed society's views on drunk driving.
On the Palestinian side, too, there is much dissent and resentment at the grass-roots.
For all the angst over the economy, there is tremendous grass-roots resistance to economic reform.
And for all the growth at grass-roots, Russia's federal government remains on the whole disdainful.
Mr. Lashes started helping his family friend, creating a social-media strategy to fan the cat's grass-roots popularity.
The wild-card party of Beppe Grillo, the grass-roots Five-Star Movement, will also not enter into an alliance.
Obama's presidential campaign developed a reputation for harnessing technology and the Internet to mobilize its grass-roots movement.
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With Windows CE, " says Michalski, "I don't see a lot of grass-roots software or cool new stuff.
The announcement comes after Scouting's national headquarters received numerous complaints from a grass-roots campaign targeting the policy.
The grass-roots movement known as Lavalas (avalanche) that swept Mr Aristide to victory in 1990 is split.
But the pigeon movement captured the imagination thanks to its spontaneity, its grass-roots nature and its youth.
From the beginning, reaching out to young people has been an integral part of the Obama grass-roots approach.
In both cases, Islamist parties were able to convert name recognition and long-standing grass-roots organization into electoral victories.
In general, he could filter more money directly to grass-roots development projects, bypassing Indonesia's corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy.
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The announcement of the reform follows an officially promoted round of debates about the economy in grass-roots bodies.
Mr Aso, more hawkish than Mr Fukuda, is congenial and fairly popular, having worked the party's grass-roots organisations.
Most tried to court it and reflect its will by painting themselves as a grass-roots uprising against big government.
That will exacerbate its self-righteous warring posture and have chilling consequences for the grass-roots civil rights movement inside Iran.
In keeping with the grass-roots story, Duvall sees to it that his camera work remains simple and unobtrusive throughout.
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