That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and physically invasive sonograms before an abortion, and Senate Republicans' persistent blocking of a measure to better address the entrenched problem of sex-based wage discrimination.
As efforts to improve eyewitness identification procedures gain traction in response to DNA exonerations and social science research establishing the fragility of eyewitness memory, lawmakers and judges should revisit the entrenched problem of the courtroom identification.
Robertson says massive cuts to drug services in Scotland is indicative of a government that appears to be walking away from the entrenched problem of heroin addiction in areas such as Muirhouse and Leith.
The entrenched problems that hobbled oil investment in Russia and Central Asia before September still exist.
Many African nations will not reach their true potential without external assistance to combat the entrenched problems, such as HIV/AIDS, that afflict Africans disproportionately.
In the Senate, Mr. Liljenquist said, "The leaders most anxious to take on the entitlement system and the entrenched problems the nation faces are being benched by a system that puts them at the bottom rung".
While the salvation of the auto companies remains a signature achievement of President Obama's first term, his inability to deal with the entrenched problems of cities like Detroit remains an enormous failure.
Detroit is not going to return to an agrarian economy, and conceptual art projects and artisanal coffee shops won't really dent the entrenched problems facing much of the city's population: crime, failing schools, chronic unemployment.
With Hillary and her staff about to hit up hedge-fund managers, investment bankers, tech moguls, and other rich folks for hefty campaign contributions, the suspicion lingers that, when it comes down to it, her campaign will punt, rather than directly confront, the entrenched problems of income and wealth inequality.
People in Genoa are now reflecting on a tragedy which has not only exposed the fragility of Italy's infrastructure, but also reminded them of the entrenched problems blighting its society, from corruption to the mafia, which a succession of governments has been powerless to do anything about.
Through mapping the work of social entrepreneurs and launching a challenge that searched for social innovators across the globe, Fabric of Change identified powerful, fresh approaches that take on the entrenched problems facing the apparel industry.
