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 lies in the intuition that at bottom he is incapable of thinking about anyone but himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root of the trouble, so far as local fishing conditions were concerned, was the lack of adequate equipment together with ignorance of its proper use.
From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James
