How To Use Entrench In A Sentence

To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people.
There were, therefore, problems that Developments sought to solve, and in doing so had to contend with entrenched positions.
Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.

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Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
Another test might be the serious pursuit of a Civil Service Act to entrench basic safeguards.
It would entrench the position of incumbent institutions that are already too large and too diverse.
They spin out conservative versions of an already entrenched style, pointedly resisting the challenges presented by artists like Leonardo.
Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
After some initial skirmishes, the company managed to entrench its rule, often through the authority of amenable local rulers.
After a few metres, the floor turns to rock, and the passage exhibits signs of vadose entrenchment.
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
It is not easy to change entrenched attitudes and systems the way that most of these people have.
It must examine the incentives entrenched by laws, regulations and conventions that have made the City so influential. Times, Sunday Times
Yet because it is so deeply entrenched in our thought and culture it is often ignored and dismissed. Times, Sunday Times
But one deeply entrenched demon I would like to exorcise is my tendency to break into a cold sweat when dealing with things financial.
In the welcome spirit in which people around the world are taking it upon themselves to question and even shake off entrenched and fossilised regimes that have long outstayed their welcome, I wonder if their courageous example could not have something to teach us? Letters: Artistic bravado
Our soldiers have entrenched themselves behind the battle lines.
Britain is a country without entrenched constitutional limits on the powers of its supreme regular legislator, Parliament.
Those deeply entrenched in parishes are seeking to upgrade their abilities by attending workshops and colloquia on chant and its stylistic descendants. How to Hire a Parish Musician
Partisan entrenchment is not an exceptional or deviant feature of presidential nominations, but rather a fairly standard practice. Balkinization
These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses.
He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
If deflationary pressures became entrenched in the economy, the damage would be immense. Times, Sunday Times
The sisters discovered that managing a staff of 15 with entrenched work practices was not easy.
The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
This in an industry with a deserved reputation for rampant, entrenched misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
It does not need to be entrenched in law. Times, Sunday Times
Busy Lizzy bustles about like a diligent char, or so you might assume until you have to remove it from a well-entrenched situation in a precious flower-bed.
I undertook that and delivered it, and in doing so obviously upset some of the entrenched establishment in the college. Times, Sunday Times
Because this legislation, which entrenches the power of traditional leaders over their rural subjects, will make life infinitely worse for the 15 million overwhelmingly poor people who live in the former Bantustans.
The investigating committee was struck by the entrenchment of both sides in their positions over time.
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
And we want to make this worse by further entrenching the formulaic standards of education?
Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning Do Bianchi
All sorts of authoritative, entrenched cultural positions can be tweaked by humor.
Current practice in mathematics education is deeply entrenched and pervasive.
So your dandy is promoting a 60s era NIMBY mindset that is likely just headed towards making the socially disadvantaged even more entrenched in their poverty, and more desperate in their behaviours. Boarding the House | Her Bad Mother
It may not be easy to dislodge them from their entrenched positions.
We will create a Supreme Court to entrench and defend these fundamental reforms to the relationship between the citizen and the state.
These organizations emerged against the background of a deepening economic and political crisis and an increasing entrenchment of racism.
That set of promises and principles from 16 years ago is widely seen as one of the reasons Republicans succeeded in knocking entrenched Congressional Democrats out of power. GOP to unveil campaign pledge after Labor Day
At the close of its session on May 11 the Great Hural approved legislation which legally entrenched the multiparty system.
His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
The incoming leader, who takes over Friday as CEO of a company struggling with the aftermath of a record oil spill, is ousting entrenched leaders, restructuring the organization and reassessing how employees earn their pay. Rating BP's management shakeup
It entrenches what is somewhere between socialistic and communistic principles that have the state take more money than it needs, so it can equalise incomes.
This issue is all about human rights, and there is no right on earth so deeply entrenched as the right to grumble. Times, Sunday Times
Our patterns of behaviour are so deeply entrenched that we are often not aware of them ourselves until we are challenged. Times, Sunday Times
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, at the ratepayer level, the preference to have improvements excluded from rates seems firmly entrenched.
For years after, he kept telling me Chicago wanted me back, but I was fully entrenched in the life of crime then.
Apparently when he came back a few years later they were having a spell when there were some druggies entrenched in the place, a bad year or more, but the riff raff is gone now. Ecommendations for budget place to stay/June '05
Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
He is one of the rare authors who can change minds on a subject where opinions are firmly entrenched.
Others have been entrenched since yesterday lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
Tregonning Hill, close by, is somewhat higher, and its summit has a fine entrenchment with a striking inner vallum. The Cornwall Coast
Amid the groves of academe, entrenched in the ivy covered tranquil buildings, there lurks more politics, latent hostility and simply bad manners than one can imagine.
While drugs can make subjects more talkative, experts say that a subject with a firmly entrenched false story embedded in his mind can still lie. Times, Sunday Times
Germany's banks in turn have deeply entrenched relationships with the Austrian financial system. Times, Sunday Times
Organizations that sustain preeminence do so because they understand that being entrenched in their past successes is the surest path to future failure. Commodity U
Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning Do Bianchi
Indeed, they are actively entrenching legal barriers to such practice rather than liberalising regulations.
Mazower (1993: 227) notes the case of the island of Evvoia, where the exclusion of women from public affairs was so entrenched that they rarely, if ever, appeared in the people's courts (laika dikastiria). Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Entrenched anti-democratic practices undoubtedly played a role in the election outcome.
In fact, partisan entrenchment is neither a Democrat or a Republican invention. Balkinization
In this instance, errors tend to entrench “bad law,” where “bad law” amount to deliberate misconstruction of binding precedent. The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
The preference for equities remains firmly entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
The press, and even the periodical press, were expected to break the power of entrenched error.
The lime juice myth was so firmly entrenched that it is still commonly believed.
Lastly, can you really claim that entrenching the current economic divides is a moral course of action? Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Libertarianism, the Environment, and Kyoto: Part 2
Indeed, your Honours, it is more entrenched pursuant to section 75 than much of the jurisdiction under section 73.
It does not need to be entrenched in law. Times, Sunday Times
Sexism is deeply entrenched in our society.
Germany's banks in turn have deeply entrenched relationships with the Austrian financial system. Times, Sunday Times
Mutual loathing is too deeply entrenched for vitriol to be aimed anywhere else than at one another. Times, Sunday Times
The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
These powers have in fact become entrenched in the articles of agreement of the WTO.
Despite surface pleasantries at times, an uneasiness derived from their deeply entrenched differences.
Mutual loathing is too deeply entrenched for vitriol to be aimed anywhere else than at one another. Times, Sunday Times
Thatcher pushed them back temporarily and stood for a basically conservative English nation (as recent polling has shown) but Blair brought them back in a "cloaked" ship and facilitated more radical leftist entrenchment than there had ever been before. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
But everyone knew that the differences hinged entirely on entrenched factional interests.
Their forces are entrenched very deep farther to the East.
But Morris and Greene were separated by circumstance and experience, one entrenched in his Philadelphia countinghouse, the other camped under the southern stars. Robert Morris
No doubt, she thought, a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life.
Eighty percent of first-generation Israeli Americans speak Hebrew at home, although the percentages decrease as the immigrants become more entrenched in American culture.
As talkback entrenched itself as an integral part of the Australian radio landscape, her program was also said to lack sufficient topicality.
The discovery that redwater and East Coast fever in cattle, as well as heartwater in sheep, were carried by ticks and not directly contagious like rinderpest, entrenched dipping as a major prophylaxis throughout the country.
'From a technical perspective, the DJIA and the S&P 500 remain in the middle of what we call a transitional zone, or consolidation range, after spending months solidly entrenched in a well defined and statistically stable uptrend channel,' said Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at Davidson Cos. in Lake Oswego, Oregon. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
Most of our masters had recently returned from wartime service and had entrenched ideas of obedience and personal discipline and their retribution was swift and painful. Times, Sunday Times
The need for a system which entrenches the independent regulation of politics and can quickly get to the truth of difficult questions has never been greater.
The shift from the political to the cultural arena helped entrench old divisions and to create new ones.
Entrenched management attitudes can be an enormous obstacle to facility projects that can reduce costs.
That is the vice is so entrenched, so enrooted that the person afflicted does not feel sick anymore. Slimy Love. Racism as a Private Hell.
During the battalion's advance on the village, the troops were met by fire from two machine-guns which were entrenched and strongly covered by wire entanglements.
It is also in this entrenched preoccupation with an ethical characterology under modern circumstances that we find the source of his enduring influences on twentieth-century political and social thought. Asthmatic
Heavy sentencing fails to deter because of the deeply entrenched prejudices of a society in flux. Times, Sunday Times
Cope marched north from Stirling to intercept the Jacobite forces but found them entrenched on the Corrieyairack pass in an impregnable position and diverted instead to Inverness.
But critics say they are little more than a toothless watchdog, lacking the clout to change entrenched practices.
Even worse, it often does not manifest until the virus has had time to "entrench" itself in the body, making anti-viral drugs somewhat less effective. Serendip's Exchange -
Our patterns of behaviour are so deeply entrenched that we are often not aware of them ourselves until we are challenged. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Trudeau has tried to create the impression that anyone opposed to entrenchment is opposed to the guarantee of fundamental and democratic rights. The ConstitutionWhat Now?
But the luxury of having all the right features comes only if you're so entrenched in the market that you can afford the R&D to do that.
The entrenchment of public-relations managers in business - abetted by schools of journalism that now offer degrees in flackery - means that press access to workers and hands-on executives becomes ever more limited and controlled.
Attempts to coordinate the region's cultural offerings have met with little success, for traditional intercity rivalries remain deeply entrenched.
What primarily entrenched a culture of incompetence was a combination of nationalism and equalitarianism.
At the close of its session on May 11 the Great Hural approved legislation which legally entrenched the multiparty system.
The biggest obstacle to the advance of medical informatics isn't the technology, it's the entrenched institutional resistance.
I'm sorry that you feel I'm so clearly blinkered and entrenched and incapable of having a reasoned discussion about it.
They are all maladaptive ways of coping that offer short-term relief but create more entrenched difficulties. Times, Sunday Times
Ahmadi said graft is deeply entrenched in local culture, and therefore extremely difficult for the government to stop. In Afghanistan, fighting a legacy of corruption
His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
He is firmly entrenched in power, and has created such a climate of fear that there are few who are prepared to challenge him.
Leap-frogging from one entrenchment to the next gives the gameplay its shape, since a soldier in the open is much, much more vulnerable to the whims of every passing bullet. Archive 2009-07-01
This time the factions are more entrenched in their positions. Times, Sunday Times
I truly believe that attitudes like these lead to deeper-ingrained stereotypes, stereotypes that entrench our world in disaccord and intolerance. Uptown girl
I generally get a proficient expert to set traps before the problem becomes too deeply entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
In short, their personalities have been pulped by a system of entrenched gender stereotypes.
In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein. Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible
But I emphasise that in terms of the key features of the Reserve Bank, which are related to its single focus and its independence from Government control, this bill does not entrench upon those matters at all.
Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
Codes must shake up an entrenched engineering corps that still favours technology over cost effectiveness.
The drawbridge was the precarious ground of many a midnight strife, till the daring gallantry of Nigel Bruce became the theme of every tongue; a gallantry equalled only by the consummate skill which he displayed, in retreating within his entrenchments frequently without the loss of a single man either as killed or wounded. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
Any resolution to the war requires the repudiation of the Sri Lankan constitution, which entrenches communalism and the autocratic executive presidency.
Low taxes, low services and entrenched business power means a stagnant future.
Cuban culture became so entrenched that old-time residents of Tampa proper began referring to the cigar town as ‘little Havana.’
I am firmly entrenched in the middle class, from the balding, white-looking salesman demographic.
Specifically, the system is 'gamed' (by using entrenched wealth-power over the political system) to allow a highly hierarchical ruling-elite corporate/financial Empire to dump negative externality costs into the broader social/environment. OpEdNews - Diary: Flaws and Solutions to Capitalism -- Part 1
What he has actually written is a witty riposte to one of the more entrenched theories in contemporary linguistics. Times, Sunday Times
Even some of the most entrenched rough sleepers have been successfully accommodated.
Such an interpretive clarification is critical because the idea of the self-made man in antebellum America has a long, entrenched historiography and, in its latest incarnation, couples masculinity studies with a discussion of the development of national markets and the removal of men from the household as part of the rise of separate spheres. 96 Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
The Kabir syndrome is certainly well entrenched in those who manipulate decision making and petrodollars.
It's a combination of guilt and a deeply entrenched gloomy outlook on life - both of which I'm trying to let go of, with varied success.
The firm said "at some point a tight-lipped communications strategy morphs into a shareholder perception of entrenchment—the desire of incumbent directors to keep a good thing going for themselves, rather than maximize value for unaffiliated shareholders—and crystallizes into a governance issue. Proxy Firm Questions Ralcorp Board Governance
What has been predictable is that the media landscape has been changing dramatically, and in any highly dynamic environment entrenched players were never going to remain passive for long.
Family members often commence therapy with entrenched views about which of them are responsible for family problems.
These dictators have entrenched themselves politically and are difficult to move.
She was the most consistent of the performers, her consummate ease of delivery and pitch-perfect vocals entrenching her in the top position.
The accumulated rage, hurt and self-doubt become so entrenched that even teens from loving homes may never recover.
Clinton's comments appear to reflect a new US pessimism on Iran following the June presidential elections, that brought an entrenchment by hardliners in Tehran.
This time the factions are more entrenched in their positions. Times, Sunday Times
While effective separation on mainline long-distance passenger trains was long entrenched, station platforms and suburban trains in the Cape were not so tightly controlled.
The success of these established brands gave rise to a deeply entrenched in-house establishment.
When that habit is entrenched, tackle the next one.
Major shareholder control induces the abuse of ownership of large shareholder, which results in the entrenchment of minority shareholders and creditors and decreases the value of corporation.
The essential question of whether the filibuster can be abolished is the question of entrenchment. Matthew Yglesias » How Many Votes to Change the Senate’s Rules
She has often won the argument, even if chauvinistic practices and prejudices remain deeply entrenched.
The colonists were driven to their last entrenchment, and although the upper seams of the vessel were not yet calked, they decided to launch her at once. The Mysterious Island
The viewer's experience now allows him/her to see a world which naïve eyes had believed to be stable, entrenched and unyielding, is actually in a state of constant flux. William Blake and the Study of Virtual Space: Adapting 'The Crystal Cabinet' to a New Medium
It entrenched the position of trade unions. Times, Sunday Times
Revolutionary messianism, fanaticism, is the only way to disrupt one's embedment in a system whose hegemony is so thoroughly entrenched.
Under the ACT Self Government Act, there is a possibility to entrench some laws, but the government here has decided not to take that route.
The experiment in equality had no impact on entrenched discrimination.
The development community was too entrenched for it to meekly give up its position without either a fight or an attempt at adaptation.
I made it very clear I wasn't entrenching on anybody's independence and I don't think that anybody… could have drawn any other conclusion.
Buoyed by this new awareness, they are now taking on what they see as one of the most entrenched, if not discreet, barriers to gender equality in France: the word "mademoiselle. Forbes.com: News
Other Zulu words are already entrenched: "lobola" (dowry), ANC Daily News Briefing
If he follows through with his plans, he will simply be entrenching members of the old guard in positions of power within the party, and his mission to reform the party will come to nothing.
He added that the deeply entrenched caste system meant it was almost impossible for people of lower castes to assume any position of power.
The enemy were strongly entrenched on the other side of the river.
Sadly, some of these myths have become so entrenched that we sometimes forget they are merely half-truths or untruths which bear little resemblance to reality.
The most common rewards were crowns of different forms; the mural crown was presented to him who in the assault first scaled the rampart of a town; the castral, to those who were foremost in storming the enemy's entrenchments; the civic chaplet of oak leaves, to the soldier who saved his comrade's life in battle, and the triumphal laurel wreath to the general who commanded in a successful engagement. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
We are less interested in entrenched businesses that lack an entrepreneurial culture. Times, Sunday Times
Until you get both of those things firmly entrenched in your understanding of the Bible storyline, you will always come out with a diluted cross. Christianity Today
Dozens of replays merely entrenched those positions rather than brought them closer. Times, Sunday Times
This in an industry with a deserved reputation for rampant, entrenched misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
These dictators have entrenched themselves politically and are difficult to move.
They are best understood not as occasional deviants on the peripheries of legal practice, but as experts entrenched at the centre of literary and intellectual culture in the twelfth century.
And more so for older people, because we have had such an infinite number of experiences by now and are so picky, entrenched and laden with baggage. Times, Sunday Times
This matter entrenches on other domains
In line with the "entrenchment effect", the excess control extent of ultimate controlling shareholder is negatively related to corporate transparency.
The case is quite different from that in which an outright owner of property finds that his ownership is entrenched upon by some outside intervention in the form of taxation.
The TRC was a key building block in entrenching reconciliation. Address at the reception on the eve of the opening of Parliament
Germany's banks in turn have deeply entrenched relationships with the Austrian financial system. Times, Sunday Times
On the back of this agitation, the new law entrenched police powers to close down brothels and punish soliciting.
There are no common law rights entrenched here.
The troops were entrenched near the mountains.
The party wants to change the rules to "entrench" the seats, meaning 75 per cent of MPs would have to agree if they were to be abolished. The Canberra Times
After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
During the three months since talks took place, the respective positions of player and club have become increasingly entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
The preference for equities remains firmly entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
In provinces such as Balkh, such a move would further entrench the warlords and rekindle ethnic tensions, but some analysts say the trade-off would be worth it. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
But still we hear deeply entrenched economic attitudes which promote business strategies antipathetic to sustainable development.
We will create a Supreme Court to entrench and defend these fundamental reforms to the relationship between the citizen and the state.sentence dictionary
Mutual loathing is too deeply entrenched for vitriol to be aimed anywhere else than at one another. Times, Sunday Times
It is entrenched only by reason of the Colonial Laws Validity Act.
Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.
This issue is all about human rights, and there is no right on earth so deeply entrenched as the right to grumble. Times, Sunday Times
Today's experience has demonstrated just how entrenched that attitude is.
The author's rigorous and abundant analyses of various types of art historical texts demonstrate how entrenched the idea of progress is in the field.
In practice, the inherited distinction between rural and urban residents produces a deeply entrenched caste system.
The Kerner Report affronted white America by placing the blame for urban riots on white racism and entrenched patterns of discrimination. Burial for a King
Hindsight indicates this apparent munificence, touted as liberalism and entrenching constitutionally supported freedom of speech, wasn't primarily for our benefit.
In 1995, Lai founded Apple Daily, taking on Hong Kong's entrenched newspapers in a fierce price war.
Your use of the word 'demented' is not totally surprising, given how pervasive and entrenched the mythology about the poet is out there (and how easy it has been for centuries to automatically label gifted, creative women who behave differently as 'demented'). A reader requests . . .
Having entrenched themselves on the captured line the troops readied themselves for the next move.
Much of this reaction was informed by the firmly entrenched cultural beliefs associated with these creatures.
Entrenched gender roles in these families can act as suppressors to the women's educational and career aspirations.
Finally, it might be argued that power is so deeply entrenched that any attempt to introduce industrial democracy would be a sham. Politics, Planning and the State

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