Left basically as it was discovered in the 19th century, the temple is a primeval landscape of crumbling pillars and giant banyan trees, their powerful roots strangling the walls like pythons.
If you look into the murkier waters of written history you find other old stumps with powerful roots, like the notion of nature as pure and untouched, virgin, in the common metaphor of the 19th century.
That Mr. Romer came from powerful roots and Mr. Hancock did not mean class, rather than race, was the dominant element of their divide, supporters on both sides said.
Blaming Jews collectively for Jesus' crucifixion has several powerful roots.
Phoenix is a young blossoming city in the process of establishing its powerful roots.
But the fundamental idea behind the Internet, of open communications protocols that nobody controls and that any program can talk to, is so powerful, so rooted in the same principles that drive open source, that I'm confident openness will win in the end.
Powerful feelings rooted in childhood experiences with siblings stay with us, often for life.
Whether a film with such powerful local roots can find a large audience outside Poland is more in doubt.
In reality, these powerful grass-roots movements bear no resemblance to what the Founding Fathers wanted or intended.
It's something of an odd conceit, given the decentralized way powerful grass-roots movements generally come together these days.
