1.   Cullinane envisions convention committees convening online, sharing input with millions of grassroots activists, the party soliciting small-sum donations on line.

2.   Grassroots activists with ties to the anti-abortion and evangelical communities were recruited like all-state high school quarterbacks.

3.   Grassroots activists, mayors and government delegations from countries around the world are attending.

4.   It took an unforgettable image of young children escaping a racist gunman to transform Donna Dees-Thomases from a wealthy suburban mother into a grassroots activist.

5.   Many of them are grassroots activists who come with little money but lots of commitment.

6.   Strikers won the support of grassroots activists, who earlier this week blocked the busy seafront boulevard with flaming tire barricades.

7.   The Dole-Kemp ticket is already energizing many a heretofore dispirited GOP grassroots activist.

8.   Although party managers talk confidently of winning the parliamentary election to be held in late April and May, there is widespread disenchantment among grassroots party activists.

9.   The award honors grassroots environmental activists from six major regions of the world.