No longer insurgents, its leaders now form an entrenched establishment, just like the liberals and moderates they defeated a generation ago.

To alter them, Muslim women face not only an entrenched religious establishment, but also a battle with fundamentalists in the political arena.

That kind of backing fell victim in the 1980's to Margaret Thatcher's disdain for the BBC as a symbol of a hostile, entrenched establishment.

One side makes it appear as if die-hard deficit hawks are battling the entrenched establishment to force a reduction in Federal spending.

Among Russian painters, a similar nationalistic trend had been following a familiar pattern-that of "young mavericks against the entrenched establishment."

We know that such reforms are greatly resisted by the deeply entrenched military establishment.

But he said there is a logic and inevitability to his decision to take on the entrenched political establishment to run a struggling, poor, largely black city.

The two men chat regularly on the phone and share a sense of being surrounded by an entrenched liberal establishment trying to frustrate their plans.

Manalo met various oppositions and persecutions from entrenched religious establishments such as the Catholic and Protestant forces.

An entrenched educational establishment continues to fight tooth and nail to maintain its control of public money.