entrenchment

How To Use entrenchment In A Sentence

• Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
• After a few metres, the floor turns to rock, and the passage exhibits signs of vadose entrenchment.
• Partisan entrenchment is not an exceptional or deviant feature of presidential nominations, but rather a fairly standard practice. Balkinization
• The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
• The investigating committee was struck by the entrenchment of both sides in their positions over time.
• These organizations emerged against the background of a deepening economic and political crisis and an increasing entrenchment of racism.
• Tregonning Hill, close by, is somewhat higher, and its summit has a fine entrenchment with a striking inner vallum. The Cornwall Coast
• In fact, partisan entrenchment is neither a Democrat or a Republican invention. Balkinization
• Thatcher pushed them back temporarily and stood for a basically conservative English nation (as recent polling has shown) but Blair brought them back in a "cloaked" ship and facilitated more radical leftist entrenchment than there had ever been before. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• Mr. Trudeau has tried to create the impression that anyone opposed to entrenchment is opposed to the guarantee of fundamental and democratic rights. The Constitution—What Now?