It's not every day that I find a product that threatens to completely change an entrenched, mass-market segment.
In Czechoslovakia and East Germany, mass protests unseated entrenched Communist leaders.
Last, but not least, you have the struggle between the entrenched military/crony elites and the masses.
It's when we'll see if global privacy rights get protected for the better – or if mass surveillance becomes more entrenched in our laws than ever before.
Mass emigration became deeply entrenched and the population continued to decline until the mid-20th century.
At the time of the first Bush presidency, Colin L. Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now secretary of state, prevailed with the Powell Doctrine that "overwhelming force" needed to be massed to defeat an entrenched Iraqi enemy in Kuwait.
The third phase of capitalism described by Ernest Mandel and others is fully entrenched: multinational corporations, globalised markets and labour, mass consumption and highly liquid multinational flows of capital.
Not that it matters: the Palm Pre is still the cool kid in class, while the iPhone is more or less fully entrenched in its position as smartphone for the masses; BlackBerry, what can you say?
As long as the society harbors a critical mass of extremist sympathizers, whatever crackdown the ruler attempts will meet entrenched opposition -- within the state, from religious institutions, and among the population.
Human and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King III, grandson of Martin Luther King, has spoken out,"Four decades ago, my grandfather proved that peaceful action of the masses can reverse the course of history, no matter how entrenched the status quo may seem.
