root of the trouble
Example Sentences
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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 the acute, continent-wide shortage of railroad freight cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
His columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the course of three or four days they realize that the root of the trouble has been reached.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
