How To Use Entrenched In A Sentence

To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.

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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.
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
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.
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
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Our patterns of behaviour are so deeply entrenched that we are often not aware of them ourselves until we are challenged. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
This time the factions are more entrenched in their positions. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
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.
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.
The accumulated rage, hurt and self-doubt become so entrenched that even teens from loving homes may never recover.
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.
She has often won the argument, even if chauvinistic practices and prejudices remain deeply entrenched.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
But still we hear deeply entrenched economic attitudes which promote business strategies antipathetic to sustainable development.
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
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
What is it to say about the historical potency of people power in challenging systems of entrenched and irresponsible power of this kind, of which it is itself a part?
The Jacobite forces were well entrenched and kept up a steady bombardment of the city, which shredded the defences inside the walls.
You have to be entrenched in something to begin with. The Sun
One of the best ways to ensure that a group belief is entrenched indefinitely is to tie it to the identity of that group.
The enemy were strongly entrenched on the other side of the river.
Obviously now devolution is even more deeply entrenched with the situation in Scotland and Wales. Twelve months on....
I generally get a proficient expert to set traps before the problem becomes too deeply entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
Low rates have done little to drive up inflation, but they have entrenched deeper financial instabilities than ever before. Times, Sunday Times
These guys often have fear of humans so deeply entrenched that they present real problems if you want to make friends. Times, Sunday Times
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
Yet because it is so deeply entrenched in our thought and culture it is often ignored and dismissed. Times, Sunday Times
Reconciliation has been a buzzword touted by almost every member of this country's fragile power base, but on many levels, sectarian differences seem as entrenched as ever. The Guardian World News
The stalemate remains firmly entrenched, with no one party having overall control of the Council for the third poll in a row.
Periodically a radical external mobilization confronts entrenched resistance within the university.
It must be reiterated, that it would be pertinently wrong, both factually and historically to put the whole blame on the mullahism of the state of Pakistan, for the Indian brand of deeply entrenched anti "mlechha", communal, fascist mind set also dominated the scene. Kafila
The name pithily sums it up: the organization will work to make politicians accountable to their constituents rather than the corporate interests so firmly entrenched in Washington. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Certainly there was abundant evidence as to how the centre-left had lost its entrenched intellectual and ideological ascendancy.
Individuals can, of course, be manipulated and misled by a malevolent guide or entrenched prejudice.
Germany's banks in turn have deeply entrenched relationships with the Austrian financial system. Times, Sunday Times
All this works for the alienator, because the more time the alienator has access to the children, the more deeply entrenched will become the PAS campaign of denigration. Judges and the Development of Parental Alienation Syndrome
The political history of Portugal in the 20th century has done much to reinforce a deeply entrenched conservatism.
These dictators have entrenched themselves politically and are difficult to move.
It is arguable that one of the reasons why education in Wales has not im- proved as much over the last 20 years as it might have done, is because of an entrenched "conservatism" and scepticism towards innovation within much of the education system. WalesOnline - Home
In some instances, this was deeply entrenched and perversely affected newer influences.
His plight is also about entrenched bureaucratic cussedness, bad laws and anti-citizen legal procedures and practices.
By the 1950s, independence and sovereignty were firmly entrenched. A Rock and a Hard Place
That association is still firmly entrenched. Times, Sunday Times
Taken together, this core legislation entrenched the suppression of wage rises and cuts to the public sector.
When I got on board - as a fan, if not a true believer - the group was entrenched in a slugfest with the flourishing occult business.
The change is affecting long entrenched attitudes.
By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required.
Those entrenched enough to deride as fools or quislings anyone who questions war may also be more prone to edit events to fit their version.
This time the factions are more entrenched in their positions. Times, Sunday Times
One benefit of comparative philosophy lies in the way that it forces reflection on the most deeply entrenched and otherwise unquestioned agendas and assumptions of one's own tradition.
While the trio's music is firmly entrenched in the house and drum 'n' bass sounds of DJ culture, their musicianship augments their builds and breaks.
This idea had firmly entrenched itself in his consciousness.
This notion is a deeply entrenched article of faith.
Now, having entrenched himself, he did cast up four mounts against the town: the first he called Mount Diabolus, putting his own name thereon, the more to affright the town of Mansoul; the other three he called thus, Mount The Holy War
Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.
The corrections system deals with the most difficult and most entrenched behaviours.
It was asking for the overthrow of generations of entrenched prejudice.
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
These arrangements entrenched a distinctive land-owning pattern among the peasantry and perpetuated the peasantry's distance from other social estates.
Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is?
Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter. Digitizing Medical Records May Help, but It's Complex
Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.

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