entrenched

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Ratana will be out in force as it wants the Treaty entrenched - and note that this does not necessarily mean that the Maori seats will be entrenched, as the Maori seats are not Treaty based.

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  • Yet adherents of fallacious doctrines are formidable and well-entrenched, and they control access to the anomaly. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • The mussels have wildlife officials around the country on alert because once they become entrenched, they multiple quickly and there's no way to get rid of them. —  KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
  • To keep falling prices from becoming entrenched, the Fed would have to make it clear to the financial markets that such an outcome is unacceptable. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • A column in the Guardian (March 24) by Geoffrey Wheatcroft shows how deeply entrenched is the anti-Israel attitude at the newspaper. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • But the pretense that a bill is needed is firmly entrenched, and the filibuster excuse lives.
 

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entrenched:   entrench
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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