Word: entrenching
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...symptoms of mononucleosis are deceptively common: A sore throat, a little fever, perhaps some perspiring, slightly swollen glands, and a listless, fatigued feeling. These usual Monday morning sensations are often ignored by students, allowing the disease to entrench and become disproportionately difficult to cure...
...other hand, if there was no evidence that Jagan planned to do more than legally entrench his power, England should also have kept the peace and law. When Communists win power while obeying the rules of democracy, they should only be turned out on a succeeding election day. Any system that arbitrarily crushes a legal colonial government does nothing to better the social and political atmosphere that made the colonists elect that government in the first place...
...have had a roof over Michigan." Had Du Pont limited the sale of Duco to G.M., that company might have run away with the auto market. But Pierre du Pont wrote Irenee du Pont in 1922 that while this step had been considered, it was vetoed; it might "entrench competition" (i.e., tie auto companies too close to suppliers) later on when others developed quick-drying finishes, thus cut Du Font's chances of selling outside...
...essential that the traditional role of the Army in these distressing times be carefully preserved-that it not be used as an instrument of tyranny or oppression -a form of pretorian guard-by those seeking to strengthen and entrench political power-but that it be used instead as a force of free men dedicated to its sworn purpose of 'defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge's boys are trying to ram restricted press laws through the legislature. The Georgia newspapers see Talmadge's action as an attempt to entrench his position by one of the simplest methods: getting rid of people who don't agree with...