The researchers were able to identify asbestos even in places eighty-percent covered by dry grass.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Opponents have already spent millions of dollars on television ads aimed at whipping up grass-roots opposition to the Obama plan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Speaking to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, British Foreign Minister David Miliband said Afghanistan needs to be built from the grass-roots level.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

There are no gravestones or grand mausoleums - just a patch of bare grass surrounded by a simple wooden fence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Meanwhile,Mr.Obama's political supporters are launching a grass-roots effort to win public support for his economic policies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

"Fatah stands at a point where it will continue to organize the process of defending the holy sites through popular effort and grass-roots mobilization,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Many were members of the Tea Party movement, which is made up of loosely organized groups of grass roots conservative, Libertarian and anti-tax activists who oppose the Democrats' health care plan, saying that it imposes too much government involvement in the economy and people's lives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25