Get at the root of the problem.

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When I was meeting with a patient, my medical knowledge and intuition would generate a set of questions I wanted to ask the patient to get at the root cause of the condition.

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Whether the eurozone ends up with 17 members or none, the governor seemed to be saying, is actually much less important than how and when the long-term imbalances at the root of the crisis get resolved.

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Mr Root was lucky to get in at the start of animal cinematography.

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You never get feedback from the plants that tell you the moisture level at the root level of the plant.

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Until our leaders pause to look at the data and their assumptions underlying these issues, we will never get to the root of the problems or opportunities facing us.

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Mr Boles says the housing problem lies at the root of many other problems because if people are unable to get houses they cannot bring their children up well or move to an area with jobs.

BBC: UK Politics

In fact, Salnoske, leveraging his skills as an expert in diagnosing problems to identify that the company needed someone who would oversee a broader variety of divisions of the company to get to the root cause of an issue that had been labeled as an operations problem, as he explains at some length herein.

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