If you were to draw a family tree of modern UK bass, El-B would be at its roots, a signet-ringed godfather with everyone from new-school drum'n'bassers to garage dons and the dubstep faithful coming to pay respect on the day of his daughter's wedding.
It is at its root a moral issue.
The problem of white supremacy in America can't be fixed with more cops or a techie band-aid like body cams on cops; it is, at its root, a problem with spiritual and societal causes.
For many this may be painting, drawing, knitting, quilting, writing, playing an instrument, designing cards - but whatever it is - creativity is at its root.
"Life" is, at its root, about the limits of wealth.
The rise in inequality is at its root a decline in the bargaining power of low and moderate-wage workers.
A number of us have been saying for some time that the euro crisis is, at its root, a balance of payments problem.
I do agree with what the Buddha might have almost thought – that life is, at its root, annoying – but I'm not sure you're going to get around it by chanting, zazen or the Noble Eightfold Path.
With the rise of the Internet, Riesman's book — which is, at its root, a discussion of the emotional life of information — has become even more relevant now than it was in the nineteen-fifties.
