entrenched interests

collocation in English

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entrenched
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈtrentʃt/us
/ɪnˈtrentʃt/
Entrenched ideas are so fixed or have existed for so long that they cannot ...
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interest
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.trəst/us
/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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He provided the media with a human interest angle on politics: he was an approachable politician, an outsider who was battling against entrenched interests.
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The more difficult task is to explain why governments refuse to defend entrenched interests against non-embedded challenges.
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Allegedly, neo-populist leaders overcome resistance to reform by bypassing entrenched interests and appealing directly to the people.
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The second factor is the entrenched interests that feature in all non-pluralist accounts of politics and policy.
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These issues arouse a strong populist constituency that can often overcome resistance from traditional elites or other entrenched interests by using instruments of direct democracy such as referenda.
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The committee will come up against strong and entrenched interests, in this instance the interests of the food industry.
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The present structure is notoriously inflexible, with too much evidence of entrenched interests.
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It calls for bringing together parties with entrenched interests which do not always operate in the best interests of the nation.
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Where entrenched interests exist, there is invariably such resistance.
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To argue that we are seeking to protect entrenched interests in the other place is to misunderstand what has been said in this debate.
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However, in the world of communication—it is not unique in this—entrenched interests and habits take a hold of even the most imaginative people.
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There are a number of examples of how entrenched interests against a transfer taking place have been ill-informed.
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It is still difficult to combat these traditional ideas and entrenched interests, especially in a climate where the opponents of free trade often have the catchier slogans.
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He wrote that twenty years of pandering to entrenched interests had dampened productive investment.
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It gives power to the youngster who doesn't have preconceptions and entrenched interests.
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He saw bureaucrats as more likely to defend their own entrenched interests than to act to benefit the organization as a whole.
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Cleveland's term as mayor was spent fighting the entrenched interests of the party machines.
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Inter-departmental infighting and the entrenched interests of the bloated and over-aged officer corps, many of whom occupied their positions as a quasi-sinecure, further obstructed drastic reform.
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Bond predicted that many entrenched interests would oppose the book vociferously.
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