Word: entrenched
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...ruin approached, Goulart turned desperately to the far left for political support, threatened to rewrite the constitution, which prevents a President from succeeding himself, and entrench himself in power. A left-run nation of permanent chaos loomed as an all too real prospect. And Brazil, of course, is no island; the largest and most important nation in Latin America, it could conceivably drag the rest of the continent down with...
Without even reading the majority opinion by Justice William Brennan (for which, from a literary viewpoint, they can't be blamed), many politicians and pundits hailed the 6 to 2 decision as one that might change the U.S. political landscape overnight, and permanently entrench the Democratic Party. It was far from that. Without setting forth any guidelines for action, it simply gave federal courts the right to hear cases involving state political apportionment. As such, it was less a bombshell than a slow-burning time fuse...
...years since free-spending Carlos Garcia stepped into the man-sized shoes of Philippine National Hero Ramon Magsaysay, he has used the office of the presidency to entrench himself and his Nacionalista Party. But despite enormous expenditures, Garcia failed to poll as many votes in 1957 in retaining the presidency as did Liberal Party Leader Diosdado Macapagal, 48, an old friend of Magsaysay, in winning the vice-presidency. Miffed, Carlos Garcia barred Vice President Macapagal from Cabinet meetings and isolated him from the government...
Justice Brennan, who spoke for the majority, said Du Pont "purposely employed the stock to pry open the General Motors market to entrench itself as the primary supplier of General Motors' requirements for automotive finishes and fabrics." Justices Burton and Frankfurter assented...
...solved by a shotgun or a long heart-to-heart with an enlightened boss. Labor's problems, indeed, have grown so large that the combined exertions of a Senate Subcommittee and the AFL-CIO may not suffice. Unethical and illegal practices have had had so many years to entrench themselves in organized labor, that citations for contempt of Congress and the AFL-CIO's ethical practices code are merely a first, if difficult, step in the right direction...