entrenchment|entrenchments in English

noun

[en'trench·ment || -mənt]

fortification, digging of trenches or foxholes, act of establishing a strong defensive positio

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1. Reinforcing obstacles include such things as entrenchments, earthworks, and abatis.

2. Studies of various rivers have revealed that the process of river entrenchment has been associated with adjustment of river positions through bank erosion, as well as widening.

3. The entrenchment of the Spears proved highly controversial; after allegations of financial mismanagement and poor results against other South African sides, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) decided on 19 April 2006 to scrap its original plan to admit the Spears in 2007.

4. However, in practice, we must guard against further entrenchment of the impression that membership in the NPT and the IAEA safeguard regime in fact constitutes an impediment to peaceful use, while non-membership is rewarded by acquiescence, as in the case of the development of one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the Middle East

5. En The barbarians meanwhile rushed down with their bands, now hurling at the entrenchments stones such as the hand could grasp, stakes with points hardened by fire, and boughs lopped from oaks; now filling up the fosses with bushes and hurdles and dead bodies, while others advanced up to the Breastwork with bridges and ladders which they had