Entrenched positions will be reinforced.
Yet both sides have adopted entrenched positions and tough talk.
"Politicians and the large newspaper organisations are adopting completely entrenched positions.
The relationship between Tottenham and Modric looks to be fractured beyond repair given both parties' entrenched positions.
It would seem to be a likely scenario, too, since it appears neither Mancini nor Tevez have backed down from their original entrenched positions.
Officials also hope that by moving off entrenched positions, they put pressure on the European Union, Japan and India to do the same.
Meanwhile, the whole climate issue has become so politically charged that the policy debate has become paralysed and bogged down in entrenched positions.
Moreover, neither side has shown much interest in moving from entrenched positions on the "final status" issues that have bedeviled peace negotiators for more than 30 years.
They are surely right: politicians, soldiers, guerrillas and their paramilitary rivals all have deeply entrenched positions and equally deep mistrust of each other.And there are more obstacles than that.
In his latest book, Feral, the environmental campaigner urges conservationists to abandon entrenched positions based on holding the line against development and defending ever smaller enclaves and reserves.
Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.
