'entrenched issues' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to difficult or complicated problems that have been around for a long time, and which are hard to solve. For example, "Our country's political leaders have yet to find a solution to the entrenched issues of poverty and inequality."
"The issue with this video is that it touches on a lot of deeply entrenched issues within the Muslim community," adds the group's unnamed spokesman.
Oombulgurri, a community near Wyndham, was emptied and demolished last year after a coronial investigation found it had entrenched issues of child abuse, domestic violence and alcoholism.
Entrenched issues continue to prevent the spread of traditional banking, quite in contrast to Western markets where fintech products and services compete with established trillion-dollar enterprises that benefit from consumer and merchant saturation and established digital payment habits.
It would be a mistake to let it distract from other, more structural and deeply entrenched issues.
Second, it reduces democratic scrutiny over the effects of government policies, and results in less piloting or experimentation of a sort that many entrenched issues require.
My concern is that email drives such as these, while good for awareness, aren't going to tackle the far more entrenched issues, and might even serve as another mask.
Gun ownership is the most reflexive, deeply entrenched issue in our country.
Duke, who created the NAACP Award-nominated documentary Dark Girls, which inspired the companion book, knows that colorism is a deeply entrenched issue part of the larger conversation about racism and mainstream representations of idealized beauty standards.
But as long as we're only willing to discuss this massive, deeply entrenched issue in response to an atypical act of unfathomable brutality, maybe this is the best we can do.
"I think it's difficult for conservative candidates to move forward because inequality is such an entrenched issue," said Ana Quintana, a Latin America expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
What he didn't foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
