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On the other hand, the president has referred to the moment as an opportunity to root out Democrats working in career roles throughout the federal system.

Yet, employers can generally intervene in personal relationships when there is a clear, justified reason to do so, such as managing a conflict of interest or rooting out harassment, legal specialists said.

Three days later, he was still being treated when Israel sealed the hospital and began a two-week military operation there, to root out Hamas command posts, it said.

The commissioner agreed that a range of factors that show systemic issues need to be rooted out, but stopped short of calling the issues institutional.

In 1960, during her first year at Gombe, Goodall observed a chimpanzee she called David Greybeard carefully strip a twig of leaves and use it to root out tasty termites from a mound.