What's the difference between entrench and solidate?

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.

Solidate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make solid or firm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (2) The sensitivity of 75 non-CNS solid tumors to mismatched dsRNA was compared to the high-grade astrocytomas in the HTCA.
  • (3) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
  • (4) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
  • (5) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
  • (6) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
  • (7) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
  • (8) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
  • (9) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
  • (10) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (11) We therefore conclude that the protective effect displayed by solid grafts might be a local process dependent on the release of diffusible trophic agents.
  • (12) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (13) The 68-kDa protein of B. bronchiseptica appeared to be the major protective antigen in B. bronchiseptica infection; however, isolated protein alone did not induce such a solid protection, as observed in a previous study after the application of an effective whole cell vaccine.
  • (14) The median age of patients with bacteremia of unknown origin was 65 years, and their most common underlying disorders were solid malignancy (28% of patients) and diabetes mellitus (18%).
  • (15) The free energy of activation showed a high negative correlation (r = -0.904, r2 = 0.817) with the percentage of virus adsorption to the solids tested.
  • (16) It was found that the use of a pH 9.6 buffer during the coating of ELISA plates led to the dissociation of virions into subunits which bound preferentially to the solid phase.
  • (17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (18) A solid-phase microtiter assay was developed to investigate the binding properties of the vitronectin receptor.
  • (19) Solid stimuli contained 15-35% fat and 20-70% sucrose (by weight).
  • (20) We conclude that, despite its rarity, adenocarcinomas must be included in the differential diagnosis of solid renal masses in early life.

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