Sentence examples for root and branch before from inspiring English sources

The crisis of the navy is only a part of the general dysfunctionality of the present-day Ministry of Defence that must now be tackled root and branch, before, absit omen, more serious military defeat forces it upon the country.

THE European Central Bank (ECB) announced this week how it will undertake a root-and-branch examination of banking assets before it takes charge of supervision in the euro area late next year (see article).

Or, to borrow the phrase used by football not long before England appointed Capello, have a root-and-branch review.

May spoke in Bournemouth hours before the federation started to vote on a package of root-and-branch reforms seen as vital to save it from disaster.

They each need root-and-branch reform.

It also requires root-and-branch reform of the House of Lords.

You can't have a root-and-branch review if you only talk to one branch.

But The Jump underwent a root-and-branch overhaul.

Perhaps only a root-and-branch reassessment of our financial system itself can save us now.

It is time for a root-and-branch review of the current systems.

Richard Kramer, deputy chief executive at the deafblind charity Sense, called for root-and-branch reform.