root pressure in a sentence

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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 . "'
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.

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