However by the time of his nephew's marriage, alienation among the male dynasts in the family had become entrenched.

Lately, many of these jobs have become entrenched.

Other issues that have since become entrenched were barely emerging at that time.

In the discipline's 200+ year history, certain concepts have become entrenched, even though improved understanding has threatened the foundations upon which they are based.

Second, to prevent a particular interest rate structure from becoming too entrenched.

But some Fed officials, worried that inflation pressures are becoming more entrenched, want to take tougher action.

In the absence of humans, the seals, now numbering about 200, have become entrenched.

The battle for the future of Iraq has only intensified as the insurgency has become entrenched.

The second involves the risk of the present political and economic model becoming entrenched.

On the contrary, in the last round of negotiations, the positions of the two parties had become even more entrenched.