Sentence examples for entrenched stance from inspiring English sources

For all the polls that show that players want more stringent testing and long for a restoration of baseball's credibility, Fehr's entrenched stance relayed the opposite message.

Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops gathered in Rome to listen hard to the "beat of this age" as he opened a landmark assembly that liberals hope will spark reform of some of the church's entrenched stances on marriage, sex and divorce.

No one likes to be told they're wrong and the more you tell them, the more they become entrenched in their stance.

"Not my department" is the entrenched governmental stance toward privacy, illustrated still further by periodic national ID schemes, the vulnerable stance of biometrics technologies and the hostility toward RFID tags.

In one part of the interview, she expresses what sounds like an entrenched negative stance toward the role equations can play in understanding biology.

But Mick Cash, the RMT's acting general secretary, said: "London Underground have dug themselves into an entrenched position and have refused to move one inch from their stance of closing every ticket office, in breach of the agreement reached previously through Acas which enabled us to suspend the previous round of action.

Wilson disputed the liberal stance that the "black underclass" (a term he later abandoned) owed its existence to entrenched racial discrimination; he also disagreed with the conservative view that African American poverty was due to cultural deficiencies and welfare dependency.

Special interests are entrenched.

Because they are entrenched.

Positions entrenched.

Positions have become entrenched.