11.   Chirac defeated Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin with populist rhetoric during an arduous grassroots campaign.

12.   Israeli casualties have increased in recent months, and a grassroots campaign calling for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon has been gaining momentum.

13.   Talking sausage-making with butchers or fielding grievances from pig farmers lent an air of pathos to his arduous grassroots campaign.

14.   The helicopters had been ferrying soldiers to southern Lebanon, and the accident triggered a grassroots campaign for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

15.   This is the first instance in which grassroots campaigns have aroused world opinion and governments to concluding an international accord in such a short time.

16.   A grassroots campaign to boycott US brand names has intensified over recent weeks across the Arab world amid growing rage over Israeli military action in the Palestinian territories.

17.   A deep split appeared to have emerged Monday in the Chechen separatist leadership as the Chechen negotiators began their grassroots campaign.

18.   Supporters of sanctions against Burma have drawn increasing support from a grassroots campaign launched over the Internet by Burmese exiles and dissidents.

19.   Stiff sanctions legislation picked up support last month, fueled by a renewed crackdown on Burmese pro-democracy activists and a grassroots campaign here aimed at toppling the junta.