6 sentences with 'roots'
Example sentences and phrases with the word roots and other words derived from it.
• « The roots of Ford's beliefs went back to his childhood on the farm, to populist suspicions against financiers and middlemen, and represented at the time the common, desidious way of thinking of various social classes. »
• « The wealthy were called patricians, families with ancient roots in Rome who held most of the seats in the senate and judiciary in the city. »
• « The success of these missionary efforts united much of Eastern Europe and Byzantium in a common religious culture - that of Eastern Orthodoxy. Thus, to this day, the Greek, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian Orthodox churches share common historical roots and a common set of beliefs and practices. »
• « In all cases, "the people" were thought to be something more important than just "the people who live here". Instead, the people were those who were tied to the land, with roots going back centuries, and who deserved their own government. »
• « Fascism was a twentieth-century phenomenon, but its ideological roots were firmly rooted in the nineteenth century. »