For the Dalai Lama, whose interest in science took root 30 years ago, spiritualism and science are not incompatible.
But in South Korea, where years of confrontation with North Korea have yielded little progress toward greater security, a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil policy took root five years ago under the previous president, Kim Dae Jung.
Schnipper's took root a few years ago, when, in the spirit of Jane and Michael Stern, the brothers travelled around the country in search of great roadside fare.
Trying to solve a tree problem that took root nearly 30 years ago, city officials find themselves out on a limb.
Globalization took root in the N.B.A. years ago, but somehow eluded one of the great melting pots.
The neighborhood took root roughly a hundred years ago: diminutive, narrow homes — some no more than 900 square feet — built within walking distance of the steel mills now shuttered.
His license plate reads Slavic 1. (He tried to convince his wife to get plates that read Slavic 2, but she declined). The neighborhood took root roughly a hundred years ago: diminutive, narrow homes — some no more than 900 square feet — built within walking distance of the steel mills now shuttered.
It's an idea that took root in Oregon about 15 years ago and has been implemented in about a dozen states (some of which, confusingly, call the order something slightly different, like P.O.S.T. in West Virginia and M.O.L.S.T. in New York).
"Ten years ago, a feeling took root that the internet was going to smash everything to bits and that we were all managing decline.
The lack of alarm from his Republican peers is, just as importantly, revelatory of another disturbing truth: the rightwing, anti-government forces which first took root in the GOP more than 40 years ago are now in full bloom and Trump is their willing avatar.
