Sentence examples for try to root out from inspiring English sources

The aftermath of the Liaoyang demonstrations illustrates a contradiction that China's leaders face as they try to root out corruption.

In the West, we believe that in business and government, fairness should trump community and try to root out nepotism and cronyism.

More likely, though, the Kenyan government seized the occasion to try to root out the Shabab, a group of Islamist insurgents, which has become increasingly meddlesome and dangerous.

During the past several weeks, United States forces have aggressively begun to try to root out Qaeda operatives in Amil before the last of the American combat troops leaves.

In response to the protests, and to riots in Lhasa, China closed the area to outsiders while it mounted a crackdown that involved widespread arrests, tightened control on Tibet's Buddhist monasteries and a re-education campaign to try to root out allegiance to the Dalai Lama.

Asking for another apostolic visitation now is an indication that the church's hierarchy may try to root out gay priests and seminarians, said Eugene Kennedy, professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author of "The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality".

Community leaders and activists say they are trying to root out extremism.

The Bush administration is already trying to root out the terrorist cells before they strike.

He was obliged to step down late last year after quarrelling publicly with his provincial party while trying to root out corruption.

The police, to be sure, have a difficult job trying to root out guns without overstepping the law.

Yet Blatter insisted that he had tried to root out corruption through Fifa's network of disciplinary and ethics committees.