root, uproot, all-consuming, sell up, All-Consuming Relationship. hope is not optimism. moved to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education

Republicans Are Targeting Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

Conservatives in Florida have moved to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." - Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet who was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for works such as Mid-Term Break (1966) and Death of a Naturalist (1966).

How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity

Climate change is creating a growing class of displaced Americans, and officials are struggling to decide how to help them.

In an excerpt from ‘Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography,’ friends, family, and colleagues describe the titan of the food world’s obsessive love affair with Asia Argento.



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For Katrina Evacuees, A Chance to Be Heard
A surge in property prices and an influx of Asian immigrants mean churches in the Canadian city are selling up



Sales of church property is especially brisk in Vancouver. Why?
Churches sell up, without completely selling out
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Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, has one all-consuming project: the pursuit of power


HOUSTON -- In a cramped guard booth on the edge of a community of luxury townhouses, the sense of helplessness that has become so familiar to Gregory Sam since Hurricane Katrina uprooted him from his home town of New Orleans can become all-consuming. (By Krissah Williams, The Washington Post)

[NO OBJECT] (sell up) British Sell all of one’s property, possessions, or assets:Ernest sold up and retired


uproot (PERSON)
verb [T]
to remove a person from their home or usual surroundings:
The war has uprooted nearly two-thirds of the country's population.

uproot (PLANT)
verb [T]
to pull a plant including its roots out of the ground:
Hundreds of mature trees were uprooted in the storm.all (COMPLETELY)

con・sum・ing

━━ a. 消費する; （感情などが）強烈な, 激しい.

all-consuming

ADJECTIVE

Completely filling one’s mind and attention; obsessive:the period was one of fiery, all-consuming work for Van Goghan intimate, all-consuming relationship