But a tree cannot be healthy if the branches are overburdened, the trunk is damaged, or the roots are weak.
In their own ways, each is trying to stay true to his or her roots while rebooting folk music for the era of ringtones.
Both seem to imply that the colonial inheritance of an independent class of public servants who could detach themselves from their ethnic or religious roots and serve the nation offered Africa its best chance of developing.
Years later when cash was more plentiful we never forgot our roots or lost our focus.
There was never a public watershed where Watson formally broke with his roots or humbly returned to them.
Every speaker who could plausibly do so emphasised his or her humble roots.
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Traveling extensively and moving every few years as part of your career in order to gain new perspectives and responsibilities or putting down roots?
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Mr Erdogan, who insists that his party, whatever its roots or its members' beliefs, does not have an Islamic agenda, appears to have got the message.
Now there are sensors that you can put near the plants roots or anywhere near the plant that use the Internet for connectivity and will tell you exactly when is the optimal time to water.
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With Windows CE, " says Michalski, "I don't see a lot of grass-roots software or cool new stuff.
Whether your company needs to reinvent itself or return to its roots, have the courage of your convictions.
It's clear Facebook wants to stick to its roots, or to seem that way, even in the face of billions of dollars it's likely to make on Friday.
Although the judge ruled in Mr Roots's favour, he told the court he had concluded he "could not safely rely" on either the evidence of claimants or that of Mr Roots.
Plenty have bumps and bruises to show for it, whether by outsourcing to manufacturers in need of tighter quality controls--see toymaker Mattel 's recent travails in China--or by planting new roots in foreign soil.
Patrons can order a shot of vitamins A, B, C, D and E or a mixture of roots, herbs, fruits and mushrooms blended in blasts called "energy, " "immunity" and "skin, hair and nails" to add to their water.
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Plenty have bumps and bruises to show for it, whether by outsourcing to manufacturers in need of tighter quality controls--see toymaker Mattel 's (nyse: MAT - news - people ) recent travails in China--or by planting new roots in foreign soil.
No one is certain that this spring's green shoots will not likewise be nipped in the bud--or prove to have sturdier roots.
But he has not forgotten his roots -- or the fact that many refugees in Africa continue to lack access to basic sanitation.
There is something to be said when you get away from the roots of, or the origin of what made this an art that it is.
That said, large organizations must sometimes simplify and amplify their messages when making fundraising appeals or launching petition drives or campaigns to build grass roots support for a cause.
An astonishing number of ideas and scientists, as well as most of San Diego's 499 biotech and medical device companies, have roots in UCSD or places like Scripps and Salk.
If you're running for president, you generally follow two basic courses of action to fund your campaign: either work your connections at the grass-roots level, or dive straight in to the rivers of cash that flow through places like Manhattan and Los Angeles.
Because, in that long term, they came to be seen as a party which was alien to Scotland or, more precisely, whose roots were other than Scottish.
It will take years before we will see a grass-roots entrepreneur in China or India who could shake up the establishment as much as Steve Jobs did.
In public, co-operative bankers and insurers continue to scoff at the idea that they would betray their local roots by going public or selling out to shareholder-owned companies.
Or, because of its Protestant Christian roots, say that it excludes Catholics, Jews, Muslims, nonbelievers and so forth.
Social breakdowns have deeper roots than hunger, frustration or anger.
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