The movement of businesses and people away from city centers led to the economic weakening of many downtown areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Their leaders said they were a non-violent democracy movement representing poor and rural people.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

"People put up their own videos. There's kind of a grassroots, more home-cooking oriented movement online where people share videos and put them up on their blogs."

VOA: special.2010.12.27

Some people accuse the movement of being controlled by the Republicans.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

And people have different opinions about the movement.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

"I think the Tea Party movement is a very amorphous one right now that is really a collection of people who are frustrated, angry or worried, but who dont necessarily either have the same basic objectives, nor necessarily agree with each other about the best ways to move forward.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

"This movement is about the people. Who can argue a movement that is about the people and for the people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

"I think we are thinking ahead of a lot of older people in the society,and I think this is a global movement,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Despite their diverse backgrounds, protesters - many dressed in green to show solidarity with Iran's opposition movement voiced a common theme of solidarity with the people of Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

Tea Party Express organizer Amy Kremer addressed a crowd of several thousand people on Pennsylvania Avenue and predicted the movement would bring change to Washington in November's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"We have had received the ballots boxes of the absentee and the movement of people so we are now waiting for the matching stage when we match the forms of the ballot boxes with the forms we have."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03