Sentence examples for entrenching on from inspiring English sources

The Americans provoked the assault by entrenching on Breed's Hill, the lower of two hills overlooking the British position.

From there they marched down to the confluence of the Black River and Moore's Creek, and began entrenching on the east bank of the creek.

The German forces initially captured the heights at Mount Sorrel and Tor Top before entrenching on the far slope of the ridge.

The landscape was mostly devoid of features that would aid in defense, but Gilsa's men were able to entrench on one low rise, Blocher's Knoll.

However, though the Republican version happens to be more distasteful, the bill in either form represents a forsaking of the American labor force and a further entrenching of class divisions on the backs of Silicon Valley and its megalomaniacal goals.

Before his sudden death, La Romana had met with Wellington and agreed on a plan for the campaign the army was to entrench on the heights of San Cristóbal, with its right flank protected by the fort of San Cristóbal, its front covered by the Gebora and Guadiana rivers, the left guarded by the fortress at Campo Maior, and Elvas protecting the rear.

Tea party voters agree with their party brethren that the party needs to make major changes, but they're far more likely to say that the GOP should mostly entrench on its current positions; 51percenttakeke that view, compared to 26percentt of non-tea party Republicans.

CAIRO — Egyptians went to the polls on Sunday to vote in a parliamentary election that seemed to unroll according to a wearily familiar script: scattered violence, widespread accusations of fraud and intimidation, and a sense among many here that Egypt's long-dominant governing party was bent on entrenching its hold on power in a period of looming political uncertainty.

It has come with a shocking mixture of brutality, incompetence and corruption, entrenching criminality on all sides.

Forking is important for all open source software and communities should welcome new ideas rather than entrenching themselves on "the way it used to be".

On Jan . 16 2009, Kevin James became a movie star: Despite a title and trailer that seemed to push through the bottom of the barrel, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" earned a surprisingly strong $39.2 million over the four-day Martin Luther King holiday, entrenching James on the comedy A-list.