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rooting out

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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. George Washington

An area in which more rather than less government involvement is needed, in my judgment, is the rooting out of fraud. It is the bane of any market system. Alan Greenspan

President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare. Stephanie Cutter

Good governance is also about rooting out corruption, which is a stain on the integrity of any nation. Laisenia Qarase

This rooting out of the Irish people; this transplanting of them from their native home into a foreign land, may be all very well, so far as the young people are concerned; but for the fathers and mothers who have reared families in Ireland, it is immediate decay and death. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Do a good job of rooting out the turf and you'll prosper enough to enjoy focaccia. Sicilian Proverb

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