Mr. Barofsky, a former Manhattan prosecutor, is the idealistic alien sent in an emergency to Planet Washington, where he does battle with the self-important, self-serving powers entrenched there or simply taking a spin through its revolving door to Wall Street.
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.
Market changes introduced since 2008 by Fidel Castro's successor, his brother Raúl, had been inadequate to stem a tide of crime and self-dealing deeply entrenched in Cuban society because of the lack of opportunity.
A fastidious intellectual with puritanical outlook and ability, his natural self-confidence was entrenched early in life by a double first from Balliol college, Oxford, and five war years as a fighting soldier.
What's more, the culture of youth criminality in London is now so self-sustaining and entrenched that City Hall alone, whoever is in charge of it, cannot be singled out for blame for its existence, any more than it is entitled to hog credit for progress made against it.
In Clancy Martin's new book Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love, he writes, "The dogmatic insistence that one has never told a lie in his or her life is obviously false," and someone who thinks she's never lied is probably "deeply entrenched in a self-deceptive self-image".
Those present remain convinced his quest for self-improvement was deeply entrenched and already well underway.
Attitudes, motivation and self-efficacy are deeply entrenched within individuals and any attempt to measure changes in these areas requires a significant investment of time.
After all, even if porn played a role in sparking anti-pube norms in the popular culture, they now perpetuate themselves through a host of culturally entrenched and self-reinforcing preferences and popular opinions.
So the 1960s studies appear less relevant as the more modern studies reproduce their findings; as self-harm becomes further entrenched as 'female cutting', the more people gendered as female have access to a resonant behavioural pattern said to signify 'distress' – the 'looping effect'.
Marshaling the testimony of journalists (including a number from The New York Times); advocates in nongovernmental organizations; and the most distinguished of whistle-blowers, Daniel Ellsberg, Mr. Greenwald contends that government secrecy is entrenched and largely self-serving, as demonstrated by the reprisals inflicted on all of his subjects.
