But the states are also strongly entrenched in their position, according to Mr Kovacic.
France is a country whose mythology of "national identity" is deeply entrenched in the collective psyche.
Both sides are eager to ink a deal, but they remain entrenched in their long-held views.
Implied is that the U.S. is already entrenched in the strategy of inflation and dollar depreciation.
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But the right to say almost anything on most other subjects is deeply entrenched in America.
America needs a new leader who is not entrenched in old battles, he says.
It's been a boon to his business since California is so heavily entrenched in the biotech industry.
Age-old notions of tradition and family honour are still deeply entrenched in many parts of Indian society.
Misogyny is another unattractive side of the sport, and it was even more entrenched in the 1930s.
Some firms are very entrenched in the Government contracting business and will fight hard to protect their turf.
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Patrick's Day Parade, an event so entrenched in New York tradition that it's older than the United States.
But its staffers, by then entrenched in a roomy Manhattan office, were coy.
Chatting to folk last night, it was intriguing to note that views are far from entrenched in all quarters.
But, with the war-minded nationalists still firmly entrenched in Serbia, the notion that independence might be negotiable seems far-fetched.
Mrs Palin connects with voters because she is one of us, not some elite politician entrenched in Washington's ways.
BBC, points out that topics such as homosexuality, once on the fringes of broadcasting, are now entrenched in the mainstream.
Although the club has embraced change on the course, off it, in the galleries, they remain firmly entrenched in history.
However, the way I see it, companies that are already entrenched in this space have a decided advantage going forward.
After all, the survey takers are deeply entrenched in the alarmist camp and their own survey results undercut their preexisting beliefs.
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But for those used to the defence of free speech entrenched in America's First Amendment, English law seems anything but fair.
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After Cosimo's death in 1464, the Medici bank went downhill, though his descendants became ever more entrenched in power in Florence.
For instance, it entrenched in law the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, which gives workers the right to free job-placement help.
Mellman and McHenry are well entrenched in the battle to extract voter sentiment out of social chatter with Topsy, their tech partner.
In the first of two reports, NPR's Luke Burbank looks at some of the reasons why gang life is so entrenched in Compton.
"The eurozone economy continued to deteriorate at an alarming pace in November, and is entrenched in the steepest downturn since mid-2009, " he added.
Both are also entrenched in their media businesses, have little interest in would-be successors and are prepared to wage war to protect their empires.
The next day, angry at his mistake, Confederate Commander John Bell Hood hurled 20, 000 men at the Union army, by then entrenched in nearby Franklin.
This tradition of rivalry is so entrenched in Washington that two blue-ribbon studies of the intelligence world have recently defended its output of overlapping analyses.
It is possible for a particular standard to become entrenched in the market, despite the fact that most users would have preferred a different one.
Her book shows us that sexism is still very much with us, that it is a complicated, often hidden element that is entrenched in our society.
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