Experts and lawmakers debated root causes, but agreed that further action is required.

专家和议员在问题的根源上有争议，不过都同意应采取更进一步的行动。

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His own exclamation: "Women should be free — as free as we are," struck to the root of a problem that it was agreed in his world to regard as non-existent.

他个人的断言——“女人应当是自由的——跟我们一样自由”——击中了一个问题的要害，而这个问题在他那个圈子里却一致认为是不存在的。

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It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.

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Mr Kerr agreed that the 2002 split of the social services department was "the root of the problems".

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