We've entrenched them.

The enemy was entrenched all around the capital.

That's not a very helpful model for arguing, but it's a pretty common and entrenched model for arguing.

And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking.

Now, it's very easy to complain, of course, about partisan politics and entrenched bureaucracy, and we love to complain about government.

In opposition lie corrupt and entrenched interests that lurk in the corridors of power, for whom there are no reasons to relinquish privileges that they feel are justly deserved.

Before the Scientific Revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions, and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb which were, however, entrenched as dogmas, along with many falsehoods.

If they believe as you have believed, then are they rightly guided but if they turn back, then know that they are entrenched in hostility. God will surely suffice to defend you against them, for He is All Hearing, All Knowing.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

So here we were, a nuclear physicist, an internist, soon joined by Carrie Hruska, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, and we were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape.