Rights, including rights of wildlife, are entrenched in the constitution. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Verb (used with object) : safely entrenched behind undeniable facts. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to entrench on the domain or rights of another. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Canberra Times] Reference
644: his sinister cheeke; it was this very sword entrench'd it. From Wordnik.com. [All's Well That Ends Well (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Ernest would entrench himself firmly in its depths and. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Two blocks farther came the order to halt and entrench. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
The organization is just too strong in too entrench in Yemen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2010] Reference
Some entrench the gates, or bring up supply of stones and poles. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
ROBERTS: In fact, he may just entrench his partisan sectarian power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008] Reference
The media can entrench this kind of political or social fragmentation. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Selman: 'Free Speech': Who's Listening?] Reference
We had to actually envelope ourselves into this, entrench ourselves into the. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2006] Reference
American oil interests and hubris helped empower and entrench Saddam in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
That approach will certainly entrench some interests and disenfranchise others. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Proto: Gainful Employment?] Reference
He lost a constitutional referendum to entrench his presidential powers in 2000. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2008] Reference
They're going to change the court today, but it will entrench a liberal bloc on the court. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2009] Reference
It gives insurgents time to mobilize and entrench themselves within the civilian population. From Wordnik.com. [HOW TO WIN THE 'NETWAR' IN IRAQ] Reference
Just as our habits took time to entrench themselves in our lives, so new habits take time as well. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Bensen: Just for today...] Reference
All troops in the Outpost Line must entrench themselves, if posted as sentries, or in the Piquet or. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
What appears to be maneuvers that should embarrass a university administration only serve to entrench it even more. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Justice] Reference
As soon as night fell the troops began to entrench themselves, for the situation of the brigade was sufficiently unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
This current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006] Reference
CANDIDATE: President Museveni was determined to entrench the one-party state and the constitution, and we were opposed to it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2006] Reference
We share the common desire to promote and entrench democracy in Africa and the need to support Kenya as a model of democracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2003] Reference
Masters of the Great Hagglenaggle Fields refuse to treat with Miners, and entrench themselves behind ironclad back gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892] Reference
Fusiliers in a mosque, with orders to entrench themselves and hold the post, while he pushed on to the stone bridge about a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
On reaching the objective of the advance these columns would deploy into line, and each unit would entrench itself on the new position. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
Some warlords are even trying to get into Rangoon banking, which would only entrench its growing reputation as a money-laundering center. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference
Innovators and entrepreneurs often don't even know what legislation is being formulated, resulting in rules that entrench the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Nurture the Unpredictable] Reference
So soon as the retirement was discovered the Germans commenced to entrench opposite our new line and to advance their guns to new positions. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
And I think that this will embolden the Iranians to use their proxies to, in fact, entrench even in a stronger manner than they already are. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007] Reference
The troops entrench themselves strongly, gallop out in parties against the foe, fire a volley into his line, and gallop back again to reload. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
To entrench themselves was impossible in the circumstances, as they had been told by the Admiral before they started on this harebrained adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
While these tactics were being pursued I was gaining the valuable time I desired, and took the opportunity to entrench myself firmly in my position. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
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