"entrench" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to fortify or support something deeply or firmly. For example: The new law entrenched the citizens' rights to equality and quality healthcare.
So, whether you're elected leaders (as in older universities such as mine) or appointed, your currency is the same: ill-conceived change to entrench the interests of your cliques and for the sake of being seen to do something.
The point about the European single market, however incomplete, is that EU member states actively try to promote more interdependence through trade because they trust each other – and build accompanying political institutions to entrench and extend that trust.
"But Cameron appears to suggest we can impose a much wider assimilation with British values and the danger is that this approach will perversely entrench those separate identities that he wants to meld.
"The options were either to assimilate, and remove the sense that you were a 'threat' to your 'hosts'," he explained, "or to entrench yourself among your own people.
The report, The 2015 General Election: A Voting System In Crisis, argues that, while the union narrowly survived last year's referendum on Scottish independence, it is under strain because the winner-takes-all system creates "artificial cleavages" which entrench division and run counter to the goals of national and regional unity.
The search company has noted numerous times it is against the idea of the right to be forgotten, which the European commission is keen to further entrench with data protection regulations currently being debated in Brussels.
"This is a last-ditch push by these companies to entrench themselves in a changing energy market.
With two senators for each state regardless of population, the Senate reflects the founders' dread of an over-mighty centre and the states' determination to entrench their prerogatives.
Many of Fiji's more moderate politicians want democracy, but seek also to entrench a paramount political role for indigenous Fijians.
This would not only protect them from interference by the host nation but avoid a common problem in poor countries: that elected leaders, once in office, abuse their power to entrench their rule and enrich themselves.Honduras has not adopted Mr Romer's ideas wholesale, although the project as planned still enjoys his strong support.
Every year of independence does entrench statehood, at least for those people who stay to enjoy it.
