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With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

contributes to environmental protection Romantic love has clear evolutionary roots but our views about what makes an ideal romantic relationship can be swayed by the society we live in

Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企业的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.

Money is considered to be the root of all evils.

The British airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company, says the root cause of the problem is not the ownership structure, but a lack of runway and terminal capacity, which it's addressing through a programme of heavy investment.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

While yoga and meditation are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

It is based on racial roots.

Twitter's huge success is rooted in the simple but profound insight that in a medium with infinite space for self-expression, the most interesting thing we can do is restrict ourselves to 140 characters.

While yoga and meditation are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.

Early forms of cake were simply a kind of bread, so this tradition hits its roots in the custom of sharing bread.

In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius's sly provocation of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organising.

She didn't want her children to miss out on their roots.

So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or otherwise looking like a fool?

Steve and Naomi spoke in musical code lines, beats, intervals, moving from the root to end a song in a new key.

Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold--weather root vegetables--was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasot

The friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and the sting four years later had its root in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV.

This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

We need to get to the root of the problem before we can solve it.

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

These issues all have root causes in human behavior: all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development.

Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.