Sentence examples for clauses entrenched from inspiring English sources
The great majority of the clauses entrenched baronial rights.
The old-timers ask that the opt-out clause be entrenched and perhaps extended.
Among the Fourteenth Amendment's many provisions was the Citizenship Clause, which entrenched a guarantee of citizenship in the Constitution by stating, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside".
Two "entrenched" clauses, on language and franchise, could be amended only by a two-thirds majority vote in Parliament.
Thus, even entrenched clauses were argued to be open to amendment by the authority of Parliament.
Dignity and the moral package that goes with it is reflected in the clauses for inclusion and for equal-treatment that are entrenched in present-day political arrangements as well as visible in the contestation, critique and opposition to power structures.
Special interests are entrenched.
Because they are entrenched.
Positions have become entrenched.
So do entrenched officeholders.
