Sentences with phrase «at rooting out»

The introduction of the TexasSure system was modeled after other similar systems introduced in Utah and other states that have proven extremely successful at rooting out the uninsured motorist problem.
A public courtroom setting, where all testimony is under oath, and there are two competing sides trying to get at the truth through cross examing, could go far at rooting out all of the conjecture that is being accepted as truth.
OTTAWA — A new deal with the United States over an American law aimed at rooting out tax cheats north of the border will ensure that Canadian financial institutions won't be required to report directly to American tax authorities, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Wednesday.
They are exploiting a growing understanding of the immune system to develop therapeutic vaccines: ones aimed not at preventing infection but at rooting out established disease or even changing how the body functions.
Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption.
In mid-September, the three co-chairs of a high - powered commission aimed at rooting out corruption in state politics arranged for a meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who set up the commission last summer.
The Smith scandal was among the cases that led Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday to unveil a package of reforms aimed at rooting out corruption in state government.
A key mission of the bureau will be to not just look at individual dealers, but to work at rooting out the sources of the supply through long - term investigations.
«On July 31, 2009, I was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury for committing perjury in a 2008 civil matter, held prior to my election to the Assembly... Thereafter, I agreed to cooperate with the Bronx District Attorney's Office and, later, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with various investigations aimed at rooting out public corruption,» Castro said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than 200 people have been summoned for questioning, and most are still detained, in a wide - ranging crackdown that Saudi Arabia says is aimed at rooting out corruption and reclaiming embezzled funds, the government said Thursday.

Not exact matches

More specifically, Walmart Pay aims to reduce hassles at checkout, a problem the retailer has been looking to root out.
To see the industry downturn tears at the cultural roots of how people perceive themselves and where they live, because it pulls the rug out from underneath you.»
To find out you have to look at the root causes.
Procter & Gamble Co. has been vigorously rooting out fraud and unverified data from its digital buys while also doing more influencer marketing, but those two things may be at cross purposes.
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«Our objective is to provide appropriate guard rails to protect consumers and root out money laundering without stifling beneficial innovation,» Lawsky said in a speech at the New America Foundation in Washington.
The easy cost savings 3G found at Burger King won't be nearly so easy to root out at Tim Hortons.
The new leaders in China seem determined to implement reforms to root out corruption, to keep the economy growing at 7 % or better and to begin to develop improved health care and retirement programs.
However, this kind of micro-look at a link profile could be used in the future to root out more manipulative linking practices — if they chose to.
For thousands of years, none has found the way out of violence because each has the roots of violence at its core.
The devil likes to get us all running around putting out little fires of offense, and hurt feelings, and negative opinions, so we don't have time or energy to deal with the strongholds at the root.
Again, I see a Good Old Boys club at the Vatican living out medieval principles rooted in «Oh, it's always been that way».
Jesus is the re-enactment of the «root out of dry ground» of Isaiah 53 who has «no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him» — who is «despised and rejected by men.»
Maybe an obsession with purity is at its root as you have pointed out.
Theo Phileo In reality, YHWH was probably the patron god of the Jewish kings who, at the spurring of a few somewhat loony prophets, ruthlessly rooted out worship of all the other traditional gods.
The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.
So the next logical step if to start calling out religion at the root.
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
One worries that the embrace of ancient Christian thought and practice could turn out to be no more deeply rooted than a consumerist choice between options at the food court.
by adoringly humbling himself under the extraordinary — all the more passionate is the offense, which at last can not be contented with less than getting this thing rooted out, annihilated and trodden in the dust.
We are not at all prejudging anything about chronology, that is, about establishing the dates of the teachers and writings of the Mahayana schools — their roots are in the earliest times; rather we are trying to give the psychological and objective points of departure in which the speculations of the later schools were grounded and out of which they are therefore to be understood.
A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.
Personally I understand the core of the Jewish personality that is rooted in pride and still lashing out at Christ who history proved would be a stumbling block to them just as he said.
It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.
I knew that when the Lord called me out of the congregation, where I was serving as Associate Rabbi, to start Shema, that we would, at least initially, be ministering to primarily non-Jews who were wanting to learn about the Hebraic roots.
That's why the 2nd verse says that he is a root out of dry ground, he has to convert to righteousness, he didn't know who he was at first until he grew to know, and is why it says in verse 12, he was numbered with the transgressors, he «bare» did wrong too, the sins of many, but made intercessor, (turned his life around) praying, working for the transgressors for YHWH telling them to convert, pouring out his soul.
The best point in this passage is that, once again, we should look at our own lives first before seeking to root out sin in others... as we ALL have sin.
They wanted to know that we were rooting out what at the time we called terrorism.»
The Milwaukee jury's refusal to accept his argument that he was only exercising his artistic freedom simply highlighted the hypocrisy of the damned human race that so appalled Twain's Satan and such of his epigones as the late Lenny Bruce — whose scatological humor, as the late Ralph Gleason once pointed out in Rolling Stone, «challenged society at its very roots
This gets at the underlying things that manifest with symptoms of acting out (porn, masturbation, affairs, etc.) The key with accountability is not just focusing on the symptoms which is how the person acted out (cop and coach) but to get to the underlying root issues or causes that were behind the acting out (cardiac).
The act of A on B is already more than just A or B; it is rooted in them, so to speak, but is not a real accident or feature of either individually, for it is a «going out from A and a landing in B.» At the same time, according to Leclerc, that A acts on B, B will act on A, for to be really acted on or affected by another thing is in some way to also act on and affect it; there is thus no such thing as absolute potency (NPE 295).
One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.
But first a point of clarification: the ontological principle is no simple concept, for Whitehead spells it out in different contexts by emphasizing different shades.1 Without a doubt, Whitehead considered it to be an Aristotelian principle at root; at the same time, however, Locke, Hume, and certainly Descartes are given due credit for helping him formulate it.
Fellow SEC football fans will know why I laughed out loud at «Rooting for Tim Tebow» as an entry on the Stuff Christians Like blog.
... [H] ow many presses there be in the world, so many block - houses there be against the high castle of St. Angelo, so that either the Pope must abolish knowledge in printing, or printing must at length root him out.
Turns out, making flavorful and authentically rooted South Indian dishes at home is totally doable.
You'll also find great tips on how to pick out this root vegetable at the market and how to best store and prep it at home.
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At this point, you can also EASILY toss in whatever root veggies you have hiding out in that veggie drawer!
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