It took an axe to the 500-year-old intellectual roots from which that movement sprang.

Its intellectual roots are in artificial intelligence, mathematical logic and developmental psychology.

It has deep social and intellectual roots, a growing mass following, and an enemy state with a hollowed-out ideology.

And my opponent and his advisers can trace their intellectual roots to the social engineering ideas popular at the turn of the century.

Beginning with the Renaissance period, intellectual roots become easier to discern.

On assuming the presidency in 1981, he met with conservative leaders around the country in Washington and reminded them of their intellectual roots.

Mr. Bush's drive to assert executive authority has intellectual roots stretching back several administrations.

As a party of the masses with intellectual roots, Labor's position is particularly ambivalent.

Trade facilitation has its intellectual roots in the fields of logistics and supply chain management.

It will pay particular attention to the steamier, not to say sleazier, side of a phenomenon that had complex intellectual roots.