entrenched

She urged people to seek advice as soon as possible and said the cases she was seeing were becoming "more entrenched or more serious".

He vowed to institute reforms and clean up deeply entrenched corruption and cronyism.

"When you're making the show, you're so entrenched in it that you forget how far it's come, and every season we put everything we have into it," Ross says.

Netanyahu has cast his indictment and trials as a political witch-hunt by left-wing political opponents deeply entrenched in the state’s bureaucracy.

Simultaneously, many of the teams people believed would be firmly entrenched at the top of the standings have struggled.