root of the trouble
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The root of the trouble was the same as in so many other historic complications.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy�the root of the trouble �even more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secondly and more important, when you add, "Goya was a moralist," for there you strike at the root of the trouble in the modern arts.
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)
