Read enough archived editorials, and you begin to believe that as long as human beings have wandered the Earth's surface, reluctantly grunting at each other about the weather, we have also been entrenched in "an inwardly focused era".
The government has also sought to tackle entrenched monopolies such as the trucking industry.Whether these reforms really measure up to the gravity of Greece's plight is disputed.
It has also crystallised deep and entrenched disagreements about student admissions, the university curriculum and academic appointments.
And in a culture that traditionally put the community before the individual and erected strong fences around personal matters, the Western penchant for self-disclosure has also become firmly, if sometimes scandalously, entrenched.
Yet at the same time, the archbishop said, entrenched bureaucracy has also made it tougher for the Vatican to make its case publicly.
Calderon's administration has also had to tackle a sluggish economy, entrenched poverty and even a lethal flu pandemic.
International governance research has also shown that weak legal environments and entrenched boards plague governance internationally (La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, and Vishny, 1998).
However, it has also identified significant structural and relational barriers related to workload, workforce, entrenched hierarchies and ways of working and service fragmentation.
