It spread over the floor with a fecund exuberance that brought to mind cypress vines, plants that take root wherever they touch the ground. |
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Those winged seeds store enough energy to take root in a thick layer of partially decomposed leaves. |
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In time the combination solidifies to a phosphatic rock that, in crumbling, provides soil in which vegetation may take root. |
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As trees take root, they would begin absorbing carbon dioxide, turning the region back into a carbon sink. |
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Complexities of politics and dogma take root well beneath the surface of what had seemed to be a simple, resoluble situation. |
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Democracy is a plant that requires long nourishment and does not take root everywhere. |
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In one tiny schoolhouse the roof caved in after a heavy rain and prickly pear quickly began to take root inside. |
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From then on the ideas planted in four parts of the area will take shape and ultimately take root. |
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The last thing they wanted was to allow baronial power to take root in the Indies. |
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However, while large parts of the world continue to be enclaves of extreme hardship and poverty, despair will take root. |
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Democracy will struggle to take root if abusive police practices and corrupt judges flourish. |
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Despite the great enthusiasm for American methods, Fordism, as it was becoming known, did not take root in Germany. |
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She played the character as a fragile English rose struggling to take root in the immoral mire of Berlin. |
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When such ideas are allowed to stand, they take root among the impressionable or those predisposed to think the worst. |
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Trim up overhanging foliage from surrounding plants and simultaneously cut back any stray grass runners before they take root in adjacent beds. |
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The opportunity to perform a once-in-a-lifetime acoustics experiment began to take root in my mind. |
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The only way democracy will take root in Cambodia is through a concerted grassroots movement. |
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All this frenetic speculation over real estate operates due to new myths which take root on the ground of legends before the war. |
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For an idea to take root, people must turn good intention into purposeful action. Only then will the idea grow and take on a life of its own. |
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This commitment must take root gradually, in the same way as a similar commitment has taken root regarding the environment. |
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Simultaneously, Wagner was using fludarabine, an immunosuppressant that appears to encourage the new cells to engraft, or take root. |
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No explanation has been made for how algae gained the ability to take root on land, nor how they developed the ability to develop from embryos. |
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Nationalism, populism and protectionism threatened to take root, it warned. |
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Thus with such an attitude to abortion not only the initiators, but the European Parliament itself, help cruelty take root in our society. |
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When the poor have an economic stake, then civil society and democracy will take root. |
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Members will also remember that the Kelowna accord had been signed and was about to take root. |
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Yet, without this behaviour, the process of trust building cannot take root. |
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Economic progress can only take root and prove lasting if it is propagated by social progress, creating a climate conducive to expansion. |
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Effective early warning is a prerequisite for successful disaster preparedness, but it has to take root at the local level. |
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Commitment to and ownership of reform needs to take root across the entire political spectrum and within the judiciary. |
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But we are fully aware that an entire generation will have to be sacrificed, before true democracy can take root in these countries. |
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It takes years for nation building efforts to take root, and we must be prepared to stand up and make that commitment clear. |
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The introduction of foreign species may lead to biodiversity threats if the released or escaped exotics take root in their new environment. |
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The most important improvement is in stabilizing the environment and allowing for development to take root. |
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Faced with this impasse, there was only one alternative: allow the authoritarian drift to take root and head for civil war or opt for change. |
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Plants and other vegetation, both in the water and along the drain's bank, begin to take root. |
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Ignorance and poverty provide a fertile soil in which the sense of exclusion and frustration that unleashes so much violence can take root. |
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Peace cannot take root in one part of the country while another part remains chronically unstable and prone to extreme violence. |
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A deflationary mentality could take root, which would be very difficult to break. |
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The purpose of this essay is to challenge the validity of these claims and to provide some insight into how such historical misconstructions can take root and grow. |
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But this view of our history did not take root, and now the usual opinion on Bent is that he was a factious opponent of the good governor who stood up for convicts. |
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This revolutionary idea has taken awhile to take root, because the Portuguese palate tends towards light, acidic wines, or even harsh, tart wines. |
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The scattered seeds take root and grow to their full potential. |
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Still, there are signs that the field is beginning to take root. |
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The living roof itself is a compost based system, usually a base of straw left to decompose within which native or introduced plants can then take root. |
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When the Berlin Wall fell, he did not crow but allowed democracy to take root on its own merits in the former Soviet republics. |
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The introduction of political censorship by the PA cannot be allowed to take root. |
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What worries him, he says, is the idea that attitudes like those displayed in the photos might take root in his home country. |
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You've been seeing these figures for awhile now but you have GOT to see them in graphic form to see why this rarest of sentiments, hope, has take root in my bosom. |
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At Campagnolo, we know that tubeless technology has just begun to grow and that it will take root in the upcoming years, also thanks to the expanding offer of tubeless tires. |
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My successors will be kept busy trying to provide the safe and secure environment that is vital for democracy and tolerance to take root in Kosovo, and for all its people to live peacefully and prosperously. |
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That the attacks pleased so many people on the planet is a clear sign this kind of nihilistic senseless madness can take root and be perceived as a means to find solutions to some of today's problems. |
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Not everything will take root but cornus, viburnum, elder and willow work well. |
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Why is public service broadcasting finding it so difficult to take root in Central and Eastern European countries where it has been transplanted from Western Europe as part of a process ofmimetic development? |
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To make body, to give substance, to take shape : from fantasized metamorphoses to polymorphic expressive mechanics, from adjourned flights to unknown lands, to take root is meant to fly higher. |
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A new, democratic aesthetic began to take root. |
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Fortunately, homeowners can employ a combination of strategies to fend off fruit fly infestations before they take root. |
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For the social economy to be able to take root, there must be simultaneously promotion of social enterprises and development of new instruments that allow their emergence, consolidation and growth. |
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As I have already indicated, it is only when it is participatory that democracy can take root and resist contrary forces and demagogic temptations. |
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However, this new approach was slow to take root in the biological sciences, the last bastion of the concept of fixed natural types. |
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On the basis of continuous interaction with clients worldwide, Krauthammer note that three trends are beginning to take root in the mindset of senior executives. |
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On the other hand, the law of large numbers can not be applied to endogenous risks: their impact is much greater because they take root in the very structure of the world market. |
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In the case of African violets, propagation is done by leaf cuttings which take root easily. |
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If the American option fails to take root, the future for the region is chaos, if not a doomsday scenario. |
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In Japan, where the popular film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root. |
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Conditions favourable to corruption should not be allowed to take root in CARICOM and undermine the stability of its democratic small developing States. |
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It must stop at 36 roadblocks and ten weighbridges, many of them manned by thieves in uniform. Still, the Legatum Institute argues that Rwanda shows that the rule of law can take root in Africa. |
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The opportunities of the post-Cold War era have been squandered and already there is little room left for new security thinking to take root in policy and planning. |
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Stability would not take root, and prosperity would remain illusive. |
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It is in the areas of the Sierra de Cádiz where other crops cannot thrive that groves are situated, olive trees finding it easy to take root on marginal land, slopes and stony terrain. |
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However, challenges must still be addressed in order to let peace and security take root in a lasting manner and to forever dispel the spectre of the conflicts that have afflicted this part of the continent. |
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May it take root in your hearts, abide in your families and communities, and inspire each of you to become an ever more faithful witness to the Prince of Peace. |
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It only needed watering to take root, to flower and to fructify, and the watering came in due course. |
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With respect to terrorism at the international level, since 1963 Uruguay has taken the necessary measures to ensure that this international scourge does not take root in the country. |
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It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root. |
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Success in these efforts will give peace a chance to take root as well as create the conditions for a dramatic improvement in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and early recovery and development activities. |
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Our aim must be to encourage the language organically, particularly at a grass-roots level, and for it to take root as a thriving, living, community language. |
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They show that Western-style democracy can take root in Sinitic societies. |
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Even after one nervous Nellie I played with went so far as to caution me that worse still, a melon was likely to take root in my stomach and grow there to maturity. |
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