Belatedly, and not without a lot of grass-roots pressure, the federal government was finally acknowledging that a growing number of Americans are, like Connerly, multiracial.
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In Austria, grass-roots pressure forced the retirement in 1998 of the archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, after he was accused of molesting seminarians.
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The GOP theory was that if voters weren't aware of what was afoot, grass roots pressure could not be mounted in time to prevent it.
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The maximum root pressure measured in some plants can raise water only to about 7 meters, and the tallest trees are over 100 meters tall.
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The grass-roots pressure group Infact said there were also signs that governments in Latin America were being persuaded by tobacco companies to try to dilute the treaty.
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At the same time, conservative groups, in a counteroffensive of Internet organizing, press conferences, and phone banking, vowed to redouble their effort to build grass-roots pressure for Ashcroft's nomination.
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Donohue, 62, of Bellmore, N . Y ., leads an effort on Long Island aimed at building grass-roots pressure on Congress to spend more money for prostate cancer research.
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Japan is hoping that this international condemnation, coupled with grass roots pressure from the more than 2, 000 American dealers who handle the targeted cars, will stave off the sanctions.
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Root pressure occurs in the xylem of some vascular plants when the "'soil moisture level is high either at night or when transpiration is low during the day . "'
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He summarises his thesis in the Introduction : Physical arguments, in particular transpirational pull and root pressure, have since been shown to be adequate for explaining the ascent of sap.
