The phrase "ingrained problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when referring to a problem that is deeply rooted, difficult to solve, or that has been around for a long time. For example, you could say: "The poverty gap is an ingrained problem that has been around for decades."
There is no simple solution to such an ingrained problem.
It is a deeply ingrained problem, but allowing advertisers to exploit this is entirely the fault of Facebook.
But the Henan case also touches on what experts say is an ingrained problem, particularly in rural China: bad and corrupted policing.
She was certainly reflecting the divide between mainly old and white members of the academy who believe that talent always wins through in the world of film, and the rest who think that there is a deeply ingrained problem throughout the industry.
"In particular Wada is concerned that the scope of the inquiry is too focused on sanctioned former cyclist Lance Armstrong – especially as his case is closed and completed with there being no appeal – and will therefore not fully address such a widespread and ingrained problem," it said in a statement, adding that the June deadline to complete the review was "wholly insufficient".
If your parrot has a deeply ingrained problem, or you can't seem to fix it, consider hiring a parrot behaviorist to visit your home and help you.
But Mexico's murder rate is now falling, albeit slowly, for the first time in five years.A vast country with deeply ingrained problems and unreformed corners, Mexico could yet squander the opportunities that are coming its way.
Yet Hispanics in Texas remain more likely to be poor, unemployed and without health insurance -- ingrained problems that predate Mr. Bush but problems that his critics say he has done too little to address.
This is after the cross-party health select committee found in November that the mental health system for children and young people (Camhs) was beset by serious, deeply ingrained problems.
This suggestion blurs into another allegation made about A4e's relationship with its Work Programme partners: that it has a habit of creaming off easy cases and handing people with ingrained problems – drugs and alcohol issues, usually – to charities and social enterprises.
The city council's own reports have described it as "one of the most deprived areas in the whole country" – and even if the city has long since switched from "welfarism" to "labourism", there are ingrained problems in Collyhurst with long-term unemployment.
