root of the trouble
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The unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy�the root of the trouble �even more.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you only vaguely addressed the true root of the trouble: bad parenting.
From Time Magazine Archive
This would have gone to the root of the trouble, but it was too much to expect the governor to assent to it even with Bacon and his infuriated men marching on Jamestown.
From Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
