Sentence examples for the root cause was from inspiring English sources

He said the root cause was "mindless selfishness, and "complete lack of responsibility in our society".

He said that the root cause was young people "being brought up to believe that life was just easy.

In the previous peak year for car burnings, 2009, the root cause was political, with extreme left-wing and anarchist groups making a statement.

But the root cause was the hopelessness of a generation of young French people, ghettoised in dismal suburbs, marginalised and jobless because of their skin colour or their parents' immigrant origins.

When, for the first time, BBC1 overtook ITV in the ratings (even though the root cause was that ITV's audience had fallen more steeply than that of BBC1, which was also falling), concerns were raised.

Probably not – but one point of the traditional rhyme about the nail is to highlight the value of hindsight; it is not until after the kingdom is lost that you discover the root cause was one lost horseshoe nail.

But the root cause is not.

But the root cause is simple enough.

The root cause is a lack of inpatient beds".

"The root cause is state failure," the American official said.

The root cause is the massive increase in prison numbers in the last two decades.