The U.S., where Marriott Management Services and Aramark were entrenched, was much tougher to conquer.
The system was entrenched by the early 1980s, but it ran into problems of obsolescence.
But the states are also strongly entrenched in their position, according to Mr Kovacic.
Also, spending is well entrenched with most of the revenue spent on entitlement programs and defense.
Thirty years of entrenched behaviour cannot simply be banished with the wave of a hand.
But what does sectarian warfare look like when it becomes entrenched as a way of life?
One of the root causes that Seligman identified was a national mood of entrenched cynicism.
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France is a country whose mythology of "national identity" is deeply entrenched in the collective psyche.
The main problem, however, was an entrenched practice of credulous diplomacy, says Mr. Heinonen.
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The locus of shareholder power is shifting rapidly from entrenched management to activist shareholders.
The more entrenched the Republicans become, the less enthusiastic they will feel about leanergovernment.
With no inventory worries, they do not have to navigate entrenched distribution systems in overseas markets.
They already have the advantage of key partnerships and entrenched footprints on the appstores.
Both sides are eager to ink a deal, but they remain entrenched in their long-held views.
Because of industry-specific tax regulations and entrenched managements, the deals are likely to be friendly.
Venture capitalist Deng says the Chinese incumbents in digital communications are already too entrenched.
Mr Prodi isn't the only one who thinks entrenched attitudes could be part of Italy's problem.
Federal law is enough to make anyone think twice about running against an entrenched congressman.
Market dominance that is achieved or entrenched through exclusionary conduct could conceivably violate the antitrust laws.
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Implied is that the U.S. is already entrenched in the strategy of inflation and dollar depreciation.
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Paul didn't see his purpose as being only to expose malignantly entrenched wrongdoing, however.
Long accustomed to taking on entrenched giants, he is ready for what comes next.
Over the last 10 years those divisions have become both more entrenched and more dangerously volatile.
This suggests that the consumer slowdown may be less entrenched than was once thought.
One of the things that Obama did was run against this well-entrenched incumbent and lost badly.
And he went for Congress in 2000 against a well-entrenched congressman named Bobby Rush.
It could also adopt proven approaches like engaging motivational counselors to change entrenched behaviors like overeating.
But the right to say almost anything on most other subjects is deeply entrenched in America.
France's strict secularism, entrenched by law since 1905, keeps religion firmly out of the state sphere.
New technologies always struggle to compete with well-entrenched rivals whose costs are already sunk.
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