In fairness, arriving as a new authority figure at any entrenched institution is not easy.

In our new global world, where satellite transmissions and the Internet have created access to culturally entrenched institutions, everyone stands to benefit.

Advocates of these philosophies saw them as ways to live within human societies as they were, rather than to overthrow entrenched institutions.

Can President Mikhail S. Gorbachev break down the privileged status of such an entrenched institution in his effort to restructure the Government?

Mr. Schwarzenegger, who six months ago fashioned himself a Republican reformer bent on hobbling entrenched Democratic institutions, is not just tolerating positions generally associated with liberal candidates.

But that would not be easy because you're dealing with entrenched institutions that have their own constituencies.

They can become entrenched institutions, with buildings, internal bureaucracies and executives pulling down six-figure compensation packages.

To what extent, to begin with the first question, does a people's vast historical experience, including its entrenched institutions, constrain the choices of today?

The people in these entrenched institutions will say, "We've heard all this before?"

The three-year-old recession has gotten so bad that even this cosmopolitan city's most entrenched institution - the cafe - is in distress.