root for

It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.

He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.

But at the root of the unnatural miracles is the natural miracle—the heart of man.

You see, I stuck to him like a log to a root, but for the first week or so 'twant no use—not a bit.

The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.

The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.