Word: entrenched
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...spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol Hill for the disadvantaged may have distracted the press from the larger story behind conservatives' blitzkrieg attacks on American social programs. The Contract with America represents not merely a Republican effort to enact conservative ideology, but also a strategy to permanently entrench Republican majorities through a systematic effort to cripple political opposition...
...when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need to apprehend the broader import of Republican efforts to entrench themselves in power...
Clarke says her attempt to entrench community service within the BSA's institutional structure was a response to challenges not only from outsiders like Kilson, but also to the needs of the BSA's membership...
...decision, most likely intended as an attempt to entrench itself within the mainstream of the Law School community, was a tough and controversial one that many BLSA members saw as a step towards increased campus recognition...
...other words, the hate-speech discourse that Prof. Mansfield and other New Right intellectuals traffic in under the free-speech cultural agency is an extra-democratic bid to entrench privileged cultural enclaves and status enclaves. hate-speech of the type that Mansfield traffics in (viz. homosexuality "undermines civilization") is not just another disinterested quest via the free-market agency for a benign pedagogical outcome...