Sentence examples for try to entrench from inspiring English sources

And while neoliberalism had been discredited, western governments used the crisis to try to entrench it.

Rather than try to entrench themselves in urban areas, they now tend to carry out hit-and-run raids to exhaust and demoralise government soldiers.

Many of the ideas were just trying to entrench what was already agreed or standard practice.

The military is trying to entrench its power while weakening the revolutionary forces that ousted Mubarak.

Yet the stability they are trying to entrench and the ambitions they are trying to realize are threatened by AIDS.

Rather than going down the American path of deliberately trying to entrench the act (amending the US constitution is a very tricky thing to do) on its face the Human Rights Act is just an ordinary piece of legislation.

They accuse Morocco of playing for time while trying to entrench its presence in the Western Sahara and continuing to exploit stocks of phosphate (the territory's biggest earner) and fish.But neither does Polisario appear to have much chance of winning the heavyweight backing that might break the diplomatic deadlock.

Crush or Flush is trying to entrench itself by signing with carriers and going international.

The ambassador emphasized that strengthening NATO must be part of trying to entrench peace.

Some added that the news of the American withdrawal would give the Taliban heart to try anew to entrench themselves.

Do they hold their ground, try to rally community support and entrench themselves as overlords?