The point being that money and stature was at the root of all those realignment decisions.

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Homophobia was at the root of the police raid at the Atlanta Eagle bar in September of 2009.

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That decision, he said, was at the root of Iraq's accountability problem.

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But former chief justice Jagdish Verma was sounding the same note when he released his review of India's rape laws, saying "a failure of governance" was at the root of the country's troubles.

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He said it was necessary to look at root causes of the problem.

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

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Ajay Bhalla, professor of global innovation management at Cass Business School, said that at the root of Tesco's US problems was a failure to understand that the US retail landscape is different from the UK's.

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His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.

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