Sentence examples for tackling the real problem from inspiring English sources

"The mayor's comments this morning which targeted cyclists breaking the law as the primary cause of death and serious injury is an attempt to blame the victims, rather than tackling the real problem of HGVs, buses and dangerous junctions".

Clare Short, Britain's secretary of state for international development, said the summit was a waste of time, and the EU's aid commissioner, Poul Nielson, accused organisers of trying to build an empire rather than tackling the real problem of hunger.

Between them, the 15 applicants agreed to take ¥5.8 trillion far short of the ¥25 trillion that the government hoped they would accept, but a tidy sum nonetheless.The doubt now is over whether the banks will start tackling the real problem: their massive bad loans.

However, they soon realised that liberating sharks one by one and paying fishermen was not a real solution and wasn't tackling the real problem: the overfishing of sharks as a result of the lack of job opportunities for San Carlos locals.

Neither the Labour government nor the Conservative opposition is yet close to tackling the real problems.

This endless exercise of putting ourselves in boxes is not helping us to foster a broader and inclusive British identity, nor tackling the real problems that the whole working class face: finding good jobs, decent housing and having access to properly funded public services.

But don't worry, anti-gay group One Million Moms is tackling the real problems facing our nation.

Next you must tackle the real problem and learn to deal with the attitudes of others as they morph around you.

The Liberal Democrat education spokesman, Ed Davey, said the change would be a positive step but would not tackle the real problem, which was that the information and checking systems for child protection were not working.

Thus between them the three parties appear to cover the entire ground – from public ownership to part-privatisation, to full privatisation – but not one of them tackles the real problem.

To tally up the costs of this diplomatic fiasco, then, the first is the missed opportunity to tackle the real problem of steel overcapacity.