The hard question is how to overcome the entrenched resistance of agriculture, intent on remaining on the national dole, without asking our political leaders to self-immolate.

But in Edinburgh they were opposed by extremely entrenched resistance from a determined group of employers.

The report also criticises the rail unions for 'entrenched resistance to change'.

The unions had to bear their share of responsibility for 'attitudes of entrenched resistance to change'.

He said that there had been an entrenched resistance to extradition for many years, and that similar ads had run after other cases.

Security forces adopted a plan to drive the armed convicts into a corner with tactics perfected against entrenched Japanese resistance during the Pacific War.

Monitors expect their evidence to be acted on and will pro-actively guard against entrenched resistance to improved governance.

With population growth at a minimal 3.1 percent over the past 10 years, Orange has developed an entrenched resistance to residential development.

In any efforts to seek common ground with the opposition, as well as in his promised attempts to modernize the bureaucracy, he will face entrenched resistance.

He said he was most surprised as President by an entrenched resistance to change in Washington.