Sentence examples for entrenched opposition from inspiring English sources
The Kennedy Administration faced entrenched opposition to civil rights in Congress, but the mobilization — and Kennedy's assassination later that year — made passage of the legislation a reasonable possibility.
Although the planning process for big projects has been streamlined, entrenched opposition to this one means that bulldozers will probably not roll before 2015.
There is deeply entrenched opposition to some of the recommendations, especially those that would change the structure of the nation's intelligence services and Congressional oversight of intelligence activities.
But environmental campaigners said that reasoning failed to take into account entrenched opposition to the technology in Europe, particularly in big states like France and Poland.
He himself approved the idea of workers taking part in the management of their companies, but he faced entrenched opposition from employers.
Five Presidents since the end of the Second World War have tried to pass legislation that would insure universal access to medical care, but all were defeated by deeply entrenched opposition.
It is the place from which he strives to act and to write with empathy and nuance rather than with fanaticism — to resist the entrenched oppositions of "a world in which easy sloganeering so quickly puts the critical faculty to flight".
What we forget, however, is how entrenched the opposition was.
Attacking the president's record across a full range of issues, they have reignited enthusiasm among reformists, many of whom, after their failure during Mr Khatami's term to overcome entrenched conservative opposition, had despaired of ever regaining momentum.
Selig's long run has conditioned baseball fans to think of the commissioner position as a kind of super-owner, at times entrenched in opposition to the players and their union.
A cocktail of factors, consisting of the power of public opinion, decentralization of political institutions and an entrenched conservative opposition to both major political parties, seems to go some way to explaining the remarkable endurance of the policy.
