Deeply entrenched pockets of poverty continue to exist around the world.

Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.

While legislation alone could not change deeply entrenched cultural practices overnight, it was a first step.

As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.

As in other post Soviet societies, changes to deeply entrenched attitudes could only be achieved over time.

Mofaz s statement is symptomatic of a perception that is now deeply entrenched, not only in the Middle East, but in the United States as well.

But the LDP worked hand in glove with Japan s deeply entrenched bureaucracy, of which the prosecutors are a part.

Moreover, deeply entrenched notions that leprosy is divine punishment destroy the reputation and self esteem of those thus diagnosed and cast a shadow over their families.

But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.

This culture of exploiting Africa s human and natural resources at will not through entrepreneurial endeavor and wealth creation, but by means of predatory politics is deeply entrenched.

However, by that time, the name ethylene was deeply entrenched, and it remains in wide use today, especially in the chemical industry.

Smart policy can help us to overcome short run constraints, deeply entrenched behaviors, and social norms, and to develop innovative financing instruments that change incentives.

Moreover, given the vast profits available under the current system, the struggle to bring about a significant energy transition faces stiff resistance from deeply entrenched vested interests.

The experience of deflation is well entrenched.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

While they must ensure that reforms are comprehensive, they also must avoid attempting too much too fast, which could trigger resistance from deeply entrenched players or unintentionally trigger dangerous chain reactions.

Little wonder that in those countries, mediocrity is knowingly entrenched.

The principle of equality is entrenched in the Brazilian Constitution.

The time to start worrying about inflation is when the recovery is entrenched.

But the subsequent increase in official fixed asset investment which rose by 32 in 2009 alone delayed structural reforms, while over capacity and a real estate bubble became even larger and more deeply entrenched problems.

It is deeply appreciated.

Even if the AKP can rely on the allegiance of millions of voters and swarms of new members anxious to join the winning side, the secularists are deeply entrenched in Turkey s institutions, universities, media, and business.

The entrenched anti capitalist, anti globalization mood elsewhere is a source of concern.

It is a western tradition which has also become entrenched in Pakistani society.

He is deeply in debt now.

Underemployment is deeply frustrating to them.

This is notably the case where entrenched groups Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis compete for central power.

Sami is deeply in love with Layla.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.

The official discourse is entrenched in statism and centralism, with growing disregard for democratic principles and procedures.

The Army's hostility to reform is deeply ingrained.

That they no longer do so is deeply disturbing.

Popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have swept away entrenched autocracies.

Programs become entrenched, develop powerful constituencies, and are hard to shrink.

Perhaps the most difficult challenge for MINUGUA was to operate in the complex multi ethnic, multicultural and multilingual environment of Guatemala, with its deeply entrenched racism and abandonment of the nearly two dozen Mayan, Xinca and Garifuna indigenous communities that comprise at least half the population.

It is an understanding that these policies are deeply misguided.

Successful Security Council reform is deeply important to New Zealand.

In Nicaragua, for example, domestic violence is so entrenched in the patriarchal culture it is referred to as the cross women must carry .

None of this is surprising, because Taiwan's society is evenly and deeply polarized.

Clearly, the United States is now deeply divided in electoral terms.

Tom sighed deeply.

Entrenched attitudes and practices must be changed in order to overcome existing inequalities.

That is a lesson that China needs to learn far more quickly than some members of its entrenched elite will find comfortable.

This is a difficult task, given that some of our systems have been in place for many years, often entrenched in law.

It is based on a strong, legally entrenched (though never perfect) ethos of gender equality that has typified Zionism from its start.