Sentences with phrase «striking at the roots»

Without the Jews» knowing it, he had struck at the roots of their religion.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman tonight offered a sharp critique of Albany's long history of ethical lapses and past claims of reform, and made comprehensive proposals to fundamentally change New York State government by striking at the root causes of corruption.

«The problems that residents most commonly contend with everyday are water leaks and mold... And so if you are able to replace the roof, you are striking at the root cause of chronic mold growth and water leaks,» Torres said after the hearing

«We will make still greater progress by working together to strike at the roots of animal overpopulation.»

We contend that CRP strikes at the root cause of the achievement gap.

The Ecology Works has introduced a revolutionary family of products designed to strike at the root causes of many common allergic reactions.

Fast, direct action is needed and with our advanced F - 72 Zonda aircraft, I — Lance Rockport — and others like me will personally strike at the root of this evil.

These should be supported by the broader aspirational goals of the Sustainable Development Goals, while the UN climate talks will attempt to strike at the root cause of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

We have got to get over this... But what we really need, like the orchestrated howls of outrage when petrol prices hit a new high, is a campaign that strikes at the root of the problem: the idiotic belief that we need a constant supply of water or something awful will happen... Our weapon should be ridicule.

Such information struck at the root of the legitimacy of Magellan as a public company, and Roberts was required to disclose it regardless of whether the respondents had made some, all, or none of their investment in Magellan.

Further, the hard fork strikes at the root of the recent discussions around immutability and the best way to make updates to public blockchains, a discussion also happening in bitcoin as well.

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BEIJING — China has struck a hard stance on the issue at the root of the looming trade fight between Beijing and Washington: China's government - led drive, which Washington describes as breaking international rules, to build the cutting - edge industries of the future.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

Family Roots December 9, 2014 A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.

Public corruption strikes at the very heart of our democracy, and we're committed to continuing to root it out across New York.»

The City Council is in the preliminary stages of drafting legislation to create the program, in negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, which the city is hoping will help resolve a long - standing dispute over who drives the school buses, which was at the root of the 2013 strike.

Revenge narratives are a dime a dozen but when storytellers are able to really get to the root of why these archetypal tales are so compelling, as Saulnier is able to do here, they strike a collective nerve, making us cheer at their ability to both homage and be wholly original at the same time.

«Teacher community collaboration,» was at the root of the successful Chicago strike in 1912 and is a growing plank in the platforms of both organizations.

Maybe if you're a native speaker, you're not aware of all the echoes of the words that share a common root, but you know, it really struck me that [Arabic has] a word for «child» that relates to things like «dawn» and «soft clay» but also «one that arrives at an inopportune moment,»» she laughed.

The root cause of this struck me at some point as my Mom was literally squeezing the blood and feeling out of my hand during a shot.

His recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012) and at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2013) highlighted his most recent work — a striking series of small works on paper and panels and an impressive collection of large scale paintings on canvas — work he describes as «rooted in Indigenous abstraction and Modernist aesthetics».

Though the roots of inflatable art can be found in 18th - century hot air balloons that were at times embellished with striking art designs, until recently inflatable objects were associated almost solely with advertising, children entertainment and holiday decorations.

First, it strikes me that one of the primary claims in favour of changing the name is, at root, an empirical one: that some significant set of the public finds the LSUC name confusing (potentially even offensive?).