Their systems of patronage had been entrenched for decades.
Furthermore, Afghanistan's patriarchal culture has been entrenched for centuries.
Protesters have received death threats and been followed and bugged.The likes of the Juárezes have been entrenched for decades in much of northern Argentina.
His persecution, imprisonment, and early death ended all this: libertinage went underground, and repressive orthodoxy was entrenched for a century or more.
Mr. Brown, 46, had vowed that he would clean house in a sheriff's department where corruption had been entrenched for three decades.
A 40-year-old challenger wages a grass-roots Democratic primary campaign against a popular Harlem congressman who has been entrenched for decades and for whom he once worked.
In many of these places, illiteracy has been entrenched for decades; the education of boys has often taken place in small religious schools; and girls have long been consigned to segregation and subjugation.
The intense scrutiny Mr. Norcross faces should come as no surprise to anyone who has watched him expand his power base from South Jersey, where he has been entrenched for nearly 15 years, to what is now a commanding statewide presence.
Only then do we have any hope of making real change to an injustice that we have come to accept as normal, and that has been entrenched for so long.
Mr. Brown, a 46-year-old Long Island native and father of five, had vowed during and after his upstart campaign that he would clean house in a sheriff's department where corruption had been entrenched for three decades.
