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“We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington,” they write.

The government argued that those deals entrenched Google’s power, guaranteeing that its search traffic was robust.

Without such limits, we risk entrenching an industry whose environmental harms outweigh its climate benefits.

As the world waits to see how the return of Donald Trump will reshape relations between Washington and Beijing, China has just taken decisive action to entrench its position in Latin America.

This difference is despite seven decades of affirmative action, India's caste system - a four-fold hierarchy of the Hindu religion - remains deeply entrenched.