Sentence examples for attempt to root out from inspiring English sources

"His vision seems an attempt to root out any dissent".

Every American attempt to root out the insurgents has failed, and their dominion is written loudly in graffiti on freshly painted, and repainted, walls.

Farther north, in the hostile town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, American armor rolled through the streets in another attempt to root out the insurgency there.

Since then, Turkey has been under emergency rule in an attempt to root out what politicians describe as terrorist infiltration into the state.

In response, in 2006 the UN established an independent investigatory agency, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which would attempt to root out corruption in the government and judiciary.

More recently, the Lebanese army bombarded the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the north of the country in an attempt to root out terrorists unaffiliated to the camp.

But attempts to root out cellphones in prisons have not yet borne fruit.

Attempts to root out conflicts of analysts have come up short.

Government attempts to root out abuses and its attacks on vested interest, whether of rich or poor, were unpopular.

What he has not done is paid any heed to psychotherapeutic attempts to root out childhood causes or find psychological resolutions for his illness.

Michael Russell has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles alleging that he was improperly sacked after almost two decades for attempting to root out corrupt practices within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which controls the 68-year-old event.