entrench - use in sentences

Object

  • stability: The decision on the single currency should be taken on the basis of whether joining would entrench the stability or not.
  • inequality: They violate freedom of religion enshrined in India's constitution and serve only to entrench communal inequality.
  • tool: He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool.
  • division: Supporters of integrated education say faith schools have entrenched religious division in the province, a claim rejected by Church leaders.
  • democracy: But most Portuguese are instinctively pro-EU, aware of how membership since 1985 has helped to entrench democracy after four decades of dictatorship.
  • attitude: In the case of the National Health Service very deeply entrenched emotional attitudes were disturbed.

Preposition: on

  • bank: As the French still had not stirred the Imperialists advanced and entrenched on the opposite bank of the stream, only 40 meters away.

Adjective complement

  • moneyed: Shop managers have and whose members even entrenched moneyed exceed the revenue.

Modifying Another Word

  • firmly: We are still firmly entrenched in the modern era.
  • deeply: Perhaps a better translation, without our deeply entrenched notions, would be ' count ' .
  • strongly: No lust is too mighty, no besetting sin too strongly entrenched; we can overcome through the power of Christ.
  • well: The test of remoteness was one well entrenched in common law.
  • so: Why are Bromley Council so entrenched, and insensitive to public opinion?
  • too: People are too entrenched in their current ways of working.

Preposition: in

  • constitution: Rights, including rights of wildlife, are entrenched in the constitution.
  • culture: How has he managed to do so in an industry entrenched in the long hours culture?
  • society: You have to solve problems that are entrenched in society.
  • position: Reverse role plays can be used to help people entrenched in one position think more flexibly.
  • law: He also hoped that human rights could become civil rights entrenched in law.
  • community: Enlisting the support of local people and services can break down the barriers to learning that have become so deeply entrenched in many communities.

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