Sentence examples for entrenched rule from inspiring English sources

The demonstrators, many of whom support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, want an end to what they see as entrenched rule by the rich and powerful.

The entrenched rule of celibacy for priests blocks an open-minded response by Catholic Church authorities.

Bishop Hoadly notwithstanding, there is nothing nonsensical in the suggestion that X might be bound by an entrenched rule, R, whose interpretation and implementation is left to X.

Beijing regards Taiwan as a separatist and "splittist" province that should be reunified with the PRC, and they have long held out Hong Kong as an example of the vaunted "One Country, Two Systems" approach where areas are allowed to operate with a framework of better civil and political rights (to say nothing of the long entrenched rule of law, advanced civil society development, et cetera).

Amal Alamuddin, human rights lawyer and now George Clooney's fiancee, had only been famous a couple of weeks and she already had the gumption to break one of fashion's most entrenched rules.

And it is emerging, officials said, as a decided disincentive to the crisis-inspired attempts by state regulators to try to change entrenched rules on how water is distributed to farms and communities.

While Tunisia made progress towards some type of constitutionally entrenched participatory rule, the other countries that overthrew their rulers, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya remain mired in authoritarianism and instability.

Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, through the crucial decades of state formation as the Gulf monarchs entrenched their rule, Washington and London provided the regimes with security guarantees, arms and training for their security forces.

The question of whether there are any limiting principles on the Senate's right to adopt a self-entrenched rule is a question of law.

And the fact that its business lags behind Cosco's is emblematic of the entrenched labor rules that have stifled the country's economic growth.

And the fact that its business lags behind Cosco's is emblematic of the entrenched labor rules and relatively high wages — for those lucky enough to still have jobs — that have stifled the country's economic growth.