What's the difference between entrench and invade?

Entrench


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Intrench.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We need welfare changes that help get our economy growing again, not changes that will entrench unemployment and dependency further."
  • (2) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
  • (3) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
  • (4) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
  • (5) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
  • (6) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
  • (7) Strangely enough, we continue to endure retrograde policy approaches that are more likely to further entrench a sense of disempowerment among Aboriginal people, rather than acknowledge and enable individual empowerment.
  • (8) And while neoliberalism had been discredited, western governments used the crisis to try to entrench it.
  • (9) Wimsatt also suggests that developmental functions be analyzed according to a degree property called "generative entrenchment", which replaces the temporal analysis in the traditional formulation of von Baer's laws.
  • (10) The consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation was 3.2% in June and the Bank is watching closely for signs that inflation will affect expectations of price pressures and wage demands, meaning it becomes more entrenched.
  • (11) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
  • (12) The international push follows successive polls that show Golden Dawn entrenching its position as Greece's third, and fastest growing, political force.
  • (13) Others are partnering with the local voluntary and community sector and local councils, setting up a range of provisions which both promote health and, crucially, entrench their commercial position within a local area.
  • (14) Herein, a substantial body of data on Drosophila ontogeny is analyzed according to generative entrenchment, in order to try the effectiveness of this form of analysis, and also to empirically test these two main predictions of the Developmental Lock model.
  • (15) There was also a certain arrogance that comes from being part of an elite that “gets the numbers”, and an entrenched hierarchy meant that predictions weren’t properly scrutinised.
  • (16) The author points out that both favorable and unfavorable opinions regarding the value of electroconvulsive therapy have become entrenched in the absence of adequate data.
  • (17) So far, the impact of inheritance on entrenching or heightening inequality has been fairly small – the average inheritance equals only 3% of the other income its recipient can expect to generate in a lifetime.
  • (18) The US claim at the time that it had " strategically defeated " al-Qaida has repeatedly been proved to be false over recent months as jihadists have re-entrenched themselves in former battlegrounds.
  • (19) In the middle of this ongoing revolution, that basic truth remains unchanged; the question that liberals have been struggling to answer is whether, as long as the generals remain entrenched, formal electoral politics can play any part in that outdoor struggle, or whether the two are mutually exclusive.
  • (20) Narendra Modi: the divisive manipulator who charmed the world Read more With the rise of the BJP in the 1980s and Modi’s election as prime minister in 2014, Hindu nationalism has become further entrenched in India, where Muslims have been killed merely upon suspicion of eating or smuggling beef.

Invade


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
  • (v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
  • (v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
  • (v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
  • (v. i.) To make an invasion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (2) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
  • (3) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
  • (4) All three parasite lines required sialic acid for optimal invasion, but Thai-2 parasites cultured in Tn erythrocytes invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with 45% efficiency whereas Camp parasites invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with less than 10% efficiency.
  • (5) The conclusion is that AIDS has invaded Taiwan, but the prevalence of the HIV infection is presently low.
  • (6) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
  • (7) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
  • (8) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (9) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (10) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
  • (11) In this report, it will be stressed that when clival chordoma invades intradually, subtemporal approach will be most favorable, and metrizamide CT cisternography is one of the useful diagnostic procedures of retroclival mass.
  • (12) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
  • (13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
  • (14) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.
  • (15) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
  • (16) Infections of Leishmania mexicana in cultured normal mouse peritoneal macrophages show different morphological features depending on whether the parasites invade as promastigote or amastigote forms.
  • (17) The interstitium between alveoli is invaded with lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells and fibroblasts.
  • (18) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
  • (19) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
  • (20) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.