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At my last position in Corporate America, I was on the receiving end of a bully executive who was well entrenched with our CEO.

Much of that money was spent through entrenched Washington lobbying firms like the Podesta Group and the Franklin Square Group.

Even though I was entrenched in the mode of ignorance, I felt fortunate to have been able to hear transcendental history being recorded.

Mubarak may have been a military man with an entrenched military apparatus, he was still one man, Nafaa points out.

Entrenched in the dark side, Vader marched to the temple with a column of loyal clone troopers, gutting the sacred edifice from within.

THOUGH Pope Benedict's tenure has not had much effect on Catholicism in Brazil so far, it has entrenched an old conflict.

The constant merry-go-round of prime ministers at a time of entrenched deflation is increasingly seen as a national disgrace.

They concluded that it is now as entrenched as it is in India and that the openness and honesty of state institutions is improving.

Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.

For months, it had been criticized as lacking strong leadership and for being unable to seriously challenge Iran's entrenched regime.

There were handshakes and smiles and a good deal of respectful listening, but ultimately no change in well-entrenched positions.

Within a few years of the Battle of Evesham many of the reforms introduced by de Montfort had been ratified and entrenched in law.

But the rules of that game will continue to be set by the entrenched hegemon for a long while to come.

The "massive gender gap" is one of the highest in the UK economy and entrenched by recruitment patterns, said the commission.

However, both countries have deeply entrenched political problems, so progress to narrow this gap is likely to be very slow.

Therapy involves unraveling years of entrenched habits and jettisoning an eating-disorder identity that had been with them for decades.

Though understood to be only temporary, such a system, optimists hope, would gradually become entrenched.

They see a lot of money to be made, a lack of entrenched competition and a vast number of potential clients.

Real estate advisers came in early amid a vacuum; there was no opposition to overcome from an entrenched domestic industry.

All this means that grappling with entrenched joblessness deserves to be far higher on America's policy agenda.

Few new social networking companies are trying to steal market share from Facebook, MySpace or the other big entrenched networks.

But if a solid peace and something resembling a democracy were entrenched, that at least would be a legacy worth leaving behind.

Here, the feudal way of life has become so entrenched that the serfs are as tied to the land as cattle, and with almost as few rights.

Reforms that have transformed India's economic prospects were well-entrenched, he said.

Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.

Time has no intention of sinking in deeply entrenched in the quiet, deep night, deep thoughts of the pain, however.

But the case has underlined the extent to which crime is entrenched in modern China and corrupt officials have co-operated with criminals.

The ground is snow, the sky is a moon, and his one banquet talk broke my heart long entrenched stage, I feel back quiet.

Kim Jong Il leaves his country with an entrenched and repressive economic system whose collapse would bring a steep price to its neighbors.

The subject's sense of safety and morality remain entrenched throughout the experience, however.

The enemy was strongly entrenched upon the other side of the river.

Yahoo, whose position in online advertising has been seemingly as entrenched as Ebay's place in e-commerce, is suffering even more.

But the aboriginal people have to stagger on their road to self-government since the current policy is not entrenched by legislation.

Other companies' staggered boards are entrenched in their corporate charters, which cannot be amended by a shareholders' vote.

But neither his popularity nor his money could knock out his opponent, who hailed from an entrenched political clan.

Liveris declined to comment on whether he has been approached, and said he remains firmly entrenched in Dow.

With such a mindset entrenched in Pyongyang's dark halls of government, economic pressure becomes meaningless.

She spoke of a "malaise" , "entrenched violence" , and of aboriginal people being "overwhelmed time and time again by a fresh new tragedy" .

The goal of this step is to format the payload in such a way that it can evade entrenched intrusion-detection systems (IDSs).

Long entrenched as a traditional Chinese knot shape - a symbol of this communication, integration and harmony of the four ideas.

He was opposed by an entrenched bureaucracy but supported by enterprise managers eager to cash in on ill-conceived reform.

In many places, the revenues earned through fines on scofflaws, known as "social maintenance fees, " feed an entrenched bureaucracy.

Ideology is also sometimes just a convenient cloak to protect entrenched interests.

During the four decades that he has governed Libya, Qaddafi has entrenched himself as a dominant political force across the continent.

And despite the admirable advances of democracy and of sound fiscal management, prosperity is not entrenched.

The question is whether the government can change its entrenched economic system enough to truly make a difference.

Mr Yang suffered from similar shortcomings to what used to be called the entrenched CEO.

Unfortunately, with a lot of these issues, you end up with entrenched positions, which advances nothing.

The dollar is too entrenched as the international currency of choice, with the U. S. by far the world's largest economy, went the thinking.

But more must be done to stop high joblessness becoming entrenched. Payroll-tax cuts and credits to reduce the cost of hiring would help.

He had been entrenched at the Abidjan residence with a band of loyal fighters.

The two sides in Libya's crisis appeared entrenched, and the direction it takes next could depend on which can hold out longest.

But torcetrapib's failure could be the bitter medicine that Pfizer's entrenched bureaucracy needs to make it accept change.

The practice was especially entrenched at police or military-affiliated universities, it noted. It was also common at language schools.

Sweeping talk of a free-trade area is one thing; negotiating a deal quite another, requiring an attack on entrenched lobbies.

Yet if foreigners and peacekeepers do not withdraw, a culture of dependence will become entrenched.

Meanwhile, organised labour is only strongly entrenched in the public sector.

H5N1 virus is now entrenched in several parts of Asia, and is moving further afield.

But among the most visible signs of India's modernization is an entrenched consumerist creed.

"A diversity program by itself, no matter how comprehensive, is no match for entrenched beliefs that prevail, " the report said.

A regulatory stamp of approval must be required that guarantees independence and competence, not entrenched privilege.

against entrenched rivals open seven days a week.

Great democratic leaders permit the public mood to prevail over the entrenched vested interests blocking their will.

"You see red blobs and blue blobs in any season, but it has been pretty entrenched for weeks to months, " Arndt said.

Others contend that Mrs Assad has been unable to fight the entrenched government resistance to promoting civil society.

The risk is that once inflation starts to pick up in Brazil it becomes entrenched, argues Marcelo Carvalho of BNP Paribas, a bank.

This isn't entirely surprising, as the various remote procedure call (RPC) systems in use in operating systems are pretty well entrenched.

Institutional bullying is similar to corporate bullying and arises when bullying becomes entrenched and accepted as part of the culture.

It is so entrenched that honest officials are now part of a minority that risks being left behind.

Numerous glaciers are entrenched in valleys like jade dragons. Seracs , icy waterfalls and ice cracks can be found everywhere.

Mr. Cameron says it has been hard to convince an industry so entrenched in its methods and to capture the imagination of investors.

Her position was strongly entrenched; she had managed to secure the support of the king.

The practice is still deeply entrenched in the structure and ideology of the justice system.

After six months of efforts, in one fell swoop wiped out a long-entrenched Yangquan "Kwan brothers" triad gangs.

But, though desirable, such wholesale reform to an entrenched system may well be too disruptive in a young democracy.

But the president reminded an enthusiastic crowd of Democrats that solving long-entrenched problems is a difficult process.

Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for justice, argues that compulsion is the only way to overcome entrenched discrimination.

With more than 300 million smokers nationwide and a deeply entrenched smoking culture, that seems a formidable challenge.

Listen carefully, and he admits that big risks lurk: a slide into violent extremism, sectarian conflict or entrenched military power.

Street food, and eating in public places is an entrenched cultural practice in cities as diverse as New York, Beijing and Paris.

Poverty and the vulnerabilities associated with it remain entrenched.

Worse, Germany may now be stuck in a rut, because, as Mr Regling explained: "Low growth expectations. . . have become entrenched. "

On the contrary, the Federal Reserve is already heavily entrenched in the political process, as the Fed chairman is a political appointee.

For now, the deeply entrenched trend of policy paralysis appears to have been broken.

"But the Korean economy is not likely to slip into stagflation [a stagnant economy with entrenched inflation] yet. "

Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.

In the process, he overhauled one of the most entrenched, strait laced corporate cultures ever devised by man.

The concepts are usually firmly entrenched in the minds of those who have studied general science or chemistry.

Yet while Shanghai is entrenched as the domestic financial hub of mainland China, its role in international finance remains minimal.

Be wary of indecision and doubt, for they harden into deeply entrenched sense of dread.

France's strict secularism, entrenched by law since 1905, keeps religion firmly out of the state sphere.

The multi-ethnic society is firmly entrenched in Italy. We have to encourage integration and non-EU immigrants themselves can lend a hand.

A growing number of studies challenge the entrenched assumption that stretching helps prevent injuries.

This is especially true for people at mid- to senior-level positions, who might be too entrenched in their previous company's cultures.

These numbers make nonsense of claims by Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, to have entrenched stability.

Corruption is entrenched and magnifying tensions between economic and religious groups is an easy route to power.

And it is only by building a new foundation of mutual trust that we will tackle some of our most entrenched problems.

But the question is whether some of Africa's leaders who are firmly entrenched in power will pay any attention to it at all.

So entrenched is the anti-globalisation that informs her world view, she would be tough to dissuade.

He was firmly entrenched in darkness, even bringing his blade to snuff out the bright lives of the Jedi younglings .

This can mean that design proceeds in the wrong direction, and becomes entrenched by the high expense for correcting too much too late.

Deflation, if it becomes entrenched, is more dangerous than most forms of inflation.

In practice it is likely to be many years, if ever, before Chrome OS can hope to rival the entrenched Windows operating system.

Japan's experience suggests economies can function perfectly well with entrenched deflation, something history confirms.

with economy entrenched in social systems , economic anthropology has to be proceed from the entire customs and systems of human beings.

But several attempts at tax reform over the past decade have foundered in the face of entrenched political resistance.

But rather than take on the system, Mr Obama has entrenched it, spending more on defence than Mr Bush did.

Some people are so entrenched in worry that they cannot see any other way to live.

The term condensation is now firmly entrenched in the literature of polymer science.

He said investors' appetite for riskier assets such as commodities was "better entrenched, and more sustainable" than earlier this year.

Opposition to Mr Rudd's plans is now so entrenched in parliament that he is contemplating calling an early election.

In a sign that inflation is becoming entrenched, core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy, are rising.

Johnson is said to be dug in, entrenched, refusing to report to training camp until he has a new contract.

So a flare-up of the dispute can be expected from time to time, with both sides falling back on their entrenched positions.

Neural connections can be reformed, new behaviors can be learned, and even the most entrenched behaviors can be modified at any age.

If Labour loses its hinterland, what remains of the union might lurch to the right under an entrenched Tory majority.

His fractious reformists, however, proved no match for the conservatives entrenched in the power structure.

Women are very active in the industry in the West, but the Gulf's entrenched religious and cultural mores make gender a tricky subject.

Corruption and bureaucracy was far too entrenched in the economy for legislation to make a dent in the economic crisis.

Don't forget that Microsoft is entrenched in the business world, where switching from Windows is tremendously expensive.

However, by the time he started integrating the two companies, the bear market was entrenched.

Among hedge funds, disaster myopia is more cynically entrenched by a poor alignment of interests between managers and their investors.

Large roots deep into soil layer, extending plunge in all directions, it was really a feast entrenched, down-to-earth.

Entrenched prejudices, obdurate opinions are as sterile as no opinions at all.

my habit of getting free books from the library and reading magazines to which I've already subscribed is just too entrenched.

Why? Disclosure itself may not be enough considering the well-entrenched forms of human thinking we're dealing with.

It has reassured me. It has confirmed my entrenched skepticism for the way Wall Street really works.

S. As the Fed adds more cash to markets, China's inflation becomes more entrenched and Beijing loses even more control.

But we have the best group of managers in the insurance business, and in most cases they oversee entrenched and valuable franchises.

Cynicism about the regime's intentions is so entrenched that few observers see this as more than an optical illusion.

The Illuminati is too well entrenched to be removed by Earth human actions alone.

As India's economy surges , one of the country's most serious and stubborn challenges is how to combat entrenched caste prejudice.

With the H5N1 virus now firmly entrenched in large parts of Asia, the risk that more human cases will occur will persist.

First, ATM to the desktop lost favor because Ethernet and Fast Ethernet were already well-entrenched in desktop connections.

And expectations of further deflation are entrenched: more than 35% of people expect prices to be flat or lower in five years' time.

Modern communications gave vent to long-simmering resentments of entrenched autocratic regimes.

In recent months, entrenched in northern Iraq, PKK attacks in Turkey continue to enter the military, police and kidnapped teachers.

Starting from beginners, mutual collaboration, in the unremitting efforts, the end to win entrenched attitude of the leading line.

"Cable is entrenched infrastructure in Taiwan, " Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia, said.

English is the language of science and commerce, and is becoming more entrenched as time passes.

At the less entrenched end of the market, some pain is inevitable.

Schemes for unemployment insurance and training also need attention, so that high joblessness does not become entrenched.

It's not just Westerners who say some of the entrenched cultural and political issues have to change. Take education, for instance.

Gordon now wants to find out exactly how the ingested microbes influence the entrenched ones.

Insecurity robs by degrees - the degree it is entrenched is the degree of power it has in the person's life.

Entrenched corporate hierarchies and the Asian tendency towards consensus management slow down change.

And H5N1 has become entrenched in a way that no other form of bird flu has, WHO says.

allow more foreign direct investment, deal with entrenched subsidies, tackle its energy market, promote competition and more.

These concepts were firmly entrenched in the mathematical formulation of classical mechanics.

The idea that news should be free is deeply entrenched on the internet, whereas paying for content is the norm on the Kindle.

One reason for the modest success of NFC payment systems is the consumer's entrenched habits and cognitive obstacles.

The oldest profession remains entrenched but, otherwise, Macao has been transformed by investment from top casino operators.

compulsion is the only way to overcome entrenched discrimination.

I loved how they planned to make our daily lives easier. They were simply adorable as they struggled to change an entrenched industry .

Entrenched gender-based discrimination and violence continue to afflict Chinese women.

This means that the rulers of love The level Guangxia is directly related to the scope of his rule and domination entrenched Guangxia level.

They hold that, once entrenched, only Lincoln's bellicose policy could have eradicated it.

It will face steep competition in the enterprise against entrenched players like Microsoft and newcomers like Jive Software.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president, cited "upside risks" to inflation and the risk of price pressures becoming entrenched.

But a series of fresh incidents in recent months has shown how deeply entrenched the problems are.

Once the recovery is entrenched this fiscal deterioration will need to be tackled.

The culture of service is now entrenched and widespread.

But entrenched ruthless people have the ability to kill unarmed people who were coming back from a humanitarian mission.

And deflation, once entrenched, is fiercely difficult to dislodge, as Japan has found. Deflation remains easily the bigger risk.

The ECB fears inflation rates, driven up by oil and commodity prices, could become entrenched via higher wage demands.

But once recovery is entrenched, high-deficit nations may need to accept lower growth as the price of curbing current-account deficits.

The distinction between expressions and statements was entrenched.

The new government also has vowed to do battle with entrenched bureaucrats and to reduce wasteful spending.

I expect that support for creativity will be equally as important as collaboration support becomes more entrenched.

But they had only fought in support of the major French or British units already firmly entrenched in the effort.

Since the eurozone crisis, that role has become more entrenched.

But he admits his proposal faces stiff opposition from the Navy's entrenched supercarrier boosters.

The H5N1 avian flu virus has become entrenched among birds in much of Asia and parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Alice has quickly entrenched herself, in the new office, and is liked by everyone.

One thing is for sure: it will become more difficult to deal with SWFs once they become an entrenched feature of the world economy.

Yet others forms of social restrictions and discrimination are firmly entrenched.

Any hope of a big move in the entrenched battle lines of the currency wars also seems at best premature.

So, with luck, a belt of countries across north Africa should now see democracies gradually entrenched.

The rich-world buyers of today ought to be more realistic about the future value of their homes, but attitudes are deeply entrenched.

Electric cars offer a fresh start in a field with no entrenched leaders.

Given these sorts of results, why is the notion that older people are less productive or innovative so entrenched?

But with the institutional bias in lending so entrenched, Rosen asks: "How do they make that happen? "

Over 360, 000 people have fled NWFP's Swat valley, where the army is pounding well-entrenched Taliban militants from the air.

To be sure, there were many suburbanites entrenched in poverty even before 2000.

Since the euro zone crisis, that role has become more entrenched.

He mobilised Thailand's rural poor and created a movement that has pitted them against an entrenched elite.

Katsuyuki Hasegawa, chief market economist at Mizuho Research Institute, says the anti-debt culture is deeply entrenched.

Our soldiers have entrenched themselves behind the battle lines.

Moreover, corruption is far less entrenched in Georgia than it is in Kyrgyzstan.

Slightly decreased Heavy Bolter damage to buildings when entrenched.

Why does North Korea's dictatorship remain so entrenched despite causing such hunger and misery?

But more must be done to stop high joblessness becoming entrenched.

For their part, legislators crafting policy must find ways to resist lobbying by the entrenched energy industries.

Ubiquitous and well entrenched as mobile phones may be, some potential uses have yet to catch on in a big way.

By contrast, rich nations suffer from deep sunk costs and entrenched vested interests.

The longer we wait, the more entrenched we get in destructive patterns and resentment and all hope for change is lost.

Mary has quickly entrenched herself in the new company, and is liked by all.

It is human nature to easily forget happy moments of our life, while terrible times easily become entrenched in our minds.

Armies of entrenched interests ring the tax system, Social Security and Medicare.

As so often, the two sides' positions have become dangerously entrenched.

A thriving economy will generate great fortunes, but there is good reason to check these becoming entrenched through inheritance.

The army entrenched themselves near the shore.

International institutions are much stronger, and democracy is more firmly entrenched.

Not only have their one-time firmly entrenched strongholds been dislodged, but they have been told that their end is inevitable.

But by then scepticism had become entrenched.

Microsoft's Exchange servers are pricey, but they're also well-entrenched in big businesses.

After Cosimo's death in 1464, the Medici bank went downhill, though his descendants became ever more entrenched in power in Florence.

Then the Chinese communists entrenched themselves; more soldiers came and their attitude became more aggressive, more harsh.

The inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy.

They also need to attack an entrenched market position and attract customers that may well be satisfied with the first mover.

Yet there are reasons to worry. The longer the Democratic race grinds on, the more entrenched the candidates may become in their populism.

While Castresana vowed to solve the case, the entrenched forces in Guatemala launched an all-out effort to destroy CICIG.

XML has gone from the latest buzzword to an entrenched technology in record time.

Often when a person is too smart, they will overanalyze things, and contradiction appear; hence, they become anxiously entrenched.

Leapfrog technologies can also spread faster, because they do not face competition from entrenched earlier systems.

So entrenched is corruption in Afghanistan that some argue it can be fought only by appointing international prosecutors.

America has an entrenched position in global institutions.

The example of countries such as Spain suggests that media piracy can become entrenched even among the middle-aged.

Shifting gears will be difficult, he reckons, because of the habits China has formed and the entrenched interests that have built up.

In my case the Greeter custom of favoring the middle name became entrenched, and I have regretted it.

That entrenched the idea that older workers were less productive, says Caroline Young, Experconnect's founder.

He was now entrenched in the community.

But AQAP is entrenched, has widened its reach and has grown in strength under Mr Saleh's rule.

Then, over-night, we got old, entrenched and sloppy , just like everyone else.

As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine, and so we become more entrenched in this illusion.

At the same time Labour has failed to tackle the entrenched social problems it hoped to, and has created some new ones.

The old ways were entrenched in duality and only possible because of the extremes that it allowed.

Political radicalism has a bad name in Nigeria, and not only when it threatens entrenched interests.

Dutch designers have not had to fight entrenched conventions, and as a result they have been remarkably free to experiment.

The more entrenched the recovery, the earlier a fiscal clampdown can begin.

To them, pyramids combine the twin dangers of entrenched management and diffuse ownership.

HIV and entrenched poverty ravage the population.

But even in the most entrenched of conflicts, the passage of years emboldens people to question official stories.

These problems may be entrenched, but they are superable.

But financial stress is entrenched in Italy and Spain (see chart).

He entrenched himself behind his newspaper.

Avoid being entrenched in foolish office gossip.

Entrenched valley is an important depositional system in Chepaizi area in the west of Junggar Basin.

Mr Cheney remains entrenched in the vice-president's office, along with Mr Addington and other hard- liners .

By that measure class in Britain hardly seems entrenched.

It cannot afford the idea that its employees are not only overpaid, but often break the law to become entrenched.

At the same time, he was laying the groundwork for the Fed to start boosting rates once the recovery was firmly entrenched.

China's annual consumer price inflation is entrenched above 5% and edging higher.

a culture of dependence will become entrenched.

It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched (a. ).

Based on the selected data, English euphemism is reclassified into entrenched euphemism and unentrenched euphemism in this thesis.

The lesson: rebalancing is risky and expensive because of entrenched competition in many sectors, so many companies move cautiously.

As a result, the problems have festered and become more entrenched, and the risk of adverse contagion has risen.

They entrenched themselves at once.

Positions are too deeply entrenched.