Deeply entrenched pockets of poverty continue to exist around the world.

While legislation alone could not change deeply entrenched cultural practices overnight, it was a first step.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

We are all now deeply, deeply, deeply interconnected.

The MILF was not deterred by the popular overthrow of Marcos s 20 year dictatorship in 1986, following the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. Nor did the establishment of democracy now deeply entrenched inspire the group s leaders to reconsider their approach.

Smart policy can help us to overcome short run constraints, deeply entrenched behaviors, and social norms, and to develop innovative financing instruments that change incentives. A recent report by the World Bank makes the case for cleaner, greener, and more inclusive growth models.

But China s export led growth model has limits and the country is reaching them. Unless change comes soon, the foreign exchange regime and capital controls on which the model relies will become too deeply entrenched, and the window of opportunity for adjustment will be missed.

Popular images of past disasters are part of our folklore, often buried in the dim reaches of our memory, but re emerging to trouble us from time to time. Like traditional myths, such graphic, shared images embody fears that are deeply entrenched in our psyche.

Little wonder that in those countries, mediocrity is knowingly entrenched.

The principle of equality is entrenched in the Brazilian Constitution.

Vision and strategy are vital for realizing the China Dream, as the country s new leaders are now calling it. But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.

Perhaps the most difficult challenge for MINUGUA was to operate in the complex multi ethnic, multicultural and multilingual environment of Guatemala, with its deeply entrenched racism and abandonment of the nearly two dozen Mayan, Xinca and Garifuna indigenous communities that comprise at least half the population.

And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.

The Commission s plan, the signature initiative of President Jean Claude Juncker at the start of his term, comes as no surprise. With the eurozone stuck in a seemingly never ending recession, the idea that growth enhancing investment is crucial for a sustainable recovery has become deeply entrenched in public discourse.

China s leaders now must identify the specific areas in which to build antifragility, and approach the required reforms prudently. While they must ensure that reforms are comprehensive, they also must avoid attempting too much too fast, which could trigger resistance from deeply entrenched players or unintentionally trigger dangerous chain reactions.

It is a western tradition which has also become entrenched in Pakistani society.

America s real problem is not competition from China it s the complexity of shifting a 17.5 trillion economy from fossil fuels to low carbon alternatives. China s problem is not the US, but how to wean the world s largest, or second largest economy (depending on which data are used) off its deeply entrenched dependence on coal.

Prior to 2003, Iraq was still ruled by a brutal tyrant, whose regime seemed permanently entrenched.

We all know that progress cannot be achieved on disarmament with such rigidly entrenched national viewpoints.

This is deeply democratizing.

It was deeply classified.

We regret this deeply.

The problem today, as Lew s recent statement highlighted, stems from deeply entrenched differences between the opposing sides belief systems, with ideological questions about fairness and responsibility trumping pragmatic discussion of the best way forward for everyone. As the historian Robert Kagan argued in 2002, Americans and Europeans do not only have different worldviews they occupy entirely different worlds.

One of the few positive features of the region is that no global power rivalries are currently playing out there. But the regional struggle for mastery between Iran and Saudi Arabia (with Israel as a third actor) could prove to be all the more dangerous, given the prevailing and deeply entrenched mindset of traditional power politics.

They touch us too deeply.

What issues deeply concern you?

Afghans have become deeply internationalist.

It's healthy to breathe deeply.

The audience was deeply affected.

He could not breathe deeply.

Those developments are deeply disturbing.

In 1990, a popular uprising against an entrenched military dictatorship brought the first real push towards sustained democracy.

But to her, it mattered deeply.

It's deeply embedded in the brain.

We're deeply ambivalent about the truth.

Business sectors are deeply gender segregated.

There is also a cross sectional lack of awareness and entrenched societal attitudes relating to women and women's rights.

Robots touch something deeply human within us.

I was deeply impressed by the scenery.

I deeply appreciate your advice and kindness.

We were deeply moved by her story.

He was deeply moved by the story.

The news made him feel deeply sad.

Japan's culture has deeply affected East Asia.

And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking.