0 present participle of entrench
1 to firmly establish something, especially an idea or a problem, so that it cannot be changed:
The antagonisms have been crystallised and a pattern entrenching conflict between the two groups has been perpetuated.
These limit the degree of presidency-induced change by entrenching opposition to presidential direction.
The fact that the conflict is pattern entrenching does not mean that loyalties do not sometimes cut across the ethnic divide.
The cultural task of selling had much more to do with entrenching hierarchies, reinforcing hegemonic assumptions, and bolstering expectations of coherence.
This process of entrenching democratic values is often determined or measured by a number of competing and sometimes complementary approaches.
Thirdly, if constitutionally entrenching any procedure is undemocratic and therefore unacceptable, it logically follows that there should be no constitution at all.
It is therefore far from clear that entrenching a particular procedure amounts to entrenching a substantive view of rights.
Not only do the various conflicts follow a pattern : they are reproducing and entrenching the pattern as they are played out.
