Sentence examples for seeking to uproot from inspiring English sources
In response, flower wholesalers are seeking to uproot their century-old market along West 28th Street and move en masse to a new spot.
Kenyan troops have been fighting an al-Shabaab insurgency in the south of Somalia for five years as part of a 22,000-strong African Union force seeking to uproot the group from its main strongholds.
These are the moments of listening to each other, valuing the experience of the other, and seeking to uproot the fear that prevents us from moving forward.
"These middle classes were too much the product of that structure to challenge it and seek to uproot it," Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself part of this anglicized class, explained in his 1946 book "The Discovery of India".
The concerns and perspectives that the investigators sought to uproot from Hollywood movies, and the tensions of the investigations themselves, were nowhere to be seen in the movies but were felt everywhere.
A biblical passage, for example, accompanies "Selection," which shows a hard-faced Nazi officer separating a boy from his mother as masses of Jews trudge off toward smokestacks: "While Pharaoh decreed death only for male children, Laban sought to uproot all".
"This is a long-standing and historical problem that we seek to uproot".
It is through knowledge, civic education, scientific research and capacity building programs that Kurds seek to uproot violence and promote human rights.
Critics of Shafiq, an admirer and longtime friend of Mubarak, see him as an extension of the old regime that millions sought to uproot when they staged a stunning uprising that toppled the man who ruled Egypt for three decades.
This is in contrast to standard practice which would seek to uproot established forest to enhance river discharge capacities and maintain flooding safety standards.
In addition to seeking to keep some of that territory for ideological and strategic reasons, the Israeli government wants to uproot as few of the settlers as possible.
