A former employee of KBR, the company known until recently as the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, was sentenced to a year in prison for accepting $133,000 in bribes to steer Army catering contracts in Iraq to a Saudi Arabian company.
Think along the roots of the sentence, "Think along the root": "tong- + ant-lang + so + wyrt".
The introduction to "A Kosher Christmas" does the book no favors, reminding us of its university press roots with sentences like: "We encounter in the following chapters a multitude of distinctive strategies that portray how Jews survive and thrive in American society and how they transform Christmastime into a holiday season belonging to all Americans".
Hence, the main clause and the utterance particles (or interjections) are in a conjunction relation forming FP, which is projected in the highest syntactic position, i.e. the root, of the sentence.
Efforts at change have already started taking root, including expedited sentencing and a shift from arrests to summonses for certain offenses.
- A Palm Coast man who kidnapped and "waterboarded" his ex-girlfriend with root beer was sentenced to life in prison.
Other pieces in Both Flesh and Not seem less important, although if you're in the mood, some of the slighter moments do manage to sparkle, such as the genuinely funny bullet-point review of a prose poem anthology, which includes the unimprovable sentence: "Square root of book's ISBN: 43,520.065".
Look up in the Online Etymology Dictionary at http://www.etymonline.com/ the roots of the words in the sentence, "Think along the root" and see below: think (v).
The Indianapolis roots resonate in every sentence, as Woodson's slight drawl turns "forum" into "farm" and "toilet" into "tawlet".
I know that has its roots in drug sentencing disparities, and that five times as many white Americans are using drugs while black people are sent to prison at ten times the rate.
Although the event expressed by a "non-root modal + Perf have" sentence was metaphysically possible or necessary (depending on the quantificational force of the non-root modal) at the relevant past time, by using the metaphysical modal sentence the speaker implies that the metaphysical possibility or necessity did not materialize, and is no longer valid, at her utterance time.
