Sentence examples for designed to entrench from inspiring English sources

But the Saudis have been suspicious of the talks from the outset, claiming that they are designed to entrench Iranian interests in Syria.

For example, it thinks well of the Labour government's 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which stiffens sentences for racially motivated crimes, and of the Human Rights Act, which comes into force in October and is designed to entrench individual freedoms.

Labour accused the Prime Minister, who called for discussions on extra powers for English MPs hours after Scotland rejected independence, of attempting a "closed-shop stitch-up" designed to entrench the Tories' position south of the border.

The petition accused Ambow's chief executive, Jin Huang, of abusing her power in relation to the investigation into possible financial misconduct and of "obstructionist tactics designed to entrench her control of Ambow".

Some Burmese drove out in their cars from Yangon to try to offer whatever help they could to their compatriots.On May 10th the junta went ahead, in areas unaffected by the disaster, with a sham referendum on a new constitution designed to entrench its rule.

Mr Palocci is backing a plan to entrench budget reform in the constitution.

At one level, perhaps not: it was clear from the very start that the launch of DTT was designed to re-entrench the position of the five terrestrial channels, after a decade of steady erosion in their viewing share by the rapid take-up of satellite and cable.

The principle tools of electoral authoritarian regimes are flawed constitutions and feigned elections, crude instruments of un-democracy commonly designed to further entrench the political and economic interests of a select few.

His policies were designed more to entrench himself and his family in Egypt as its hereditary rulers than to create a new society.

Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion.

And the system, opaque and sometimes capricious, seems designed to stifle political innovation by entrenching the hegemony of the main political parties and marginalising new parties and those without MPs.