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Ezeobi said the capacity building series was to entrench accountability and transparency in public funds’ utilisation, in line with Soludo’s vision to ensure adequate value for money.

That is why we are not calling for a general ceasefire, which would allow Hamas to regroup and entrench their position.

The international press took the opportunity to entrench their branding of Mugabe as a socialist and a Black Marxist.

The Palestinians say they further entrench Israel's 55-year, open-ended occupation of the West Bank, which Israel captured along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war.

This public perception was based on a belief that the Judiciary had conspired with the executive arm of government to entrench a culture of impunity for government officials involved in corruption and abuse of taxpayer’s money.

To me, the coming elections present the opportunity of using Hon.Igbinedion’s candidacy to banish inept governance in the State, and entrench a new dawn to the advantage of posterity.

However, he also stressed that keeping rates “too high for too long” could entrench below-target inflation and weak growth across the eurozone.

It’s an attribute, combined with his NHL-ready shot and sound defensive work, that could entrench Boisvert in the middle-six of a lineup for years.

On the other hand, his bluff could be called, enabling the hard right of the coalition to entrench themselves.

Rupert Murdoch has blown apart his family as he attempts to entrench son Lachlan as his inheritor and deny his other children a role in the future affairs of the empire.

The issues in contention include allowing Gazans to return to the largely evacuated and abandoned Gaza City, as per Hamas demand; IDF believe that this would see Hamas terrorists entrench themselves anew in the city.

The ruling party came in and pulled all the right levers to entrench their power, to ensure they could act as strongmen without real checks from the other branches, and cow everybody in their party into obedience.

European Union regulators say they're opening an in-depth investigation into U.S. tech giant Google's plan to buy fitness tracking device maker Fitbit, saying they are concerned the deal would entrench Google's position in the online ad market.

For the ruling party, Covid-19 represents not just a major public health threat, but also a valuable political opportunity to entrench its rule.

Gerrymandering is antithetical to democracy; politicians should have to compete for popular support under neutral, fair rules of engagement — rather than being able to manipulate the playing field to entrench themselves and their allies in power.

If he thought slavery’s extension was too high a price to pay to preserve the Union, why was he willing permanently to entrench slavery wherever it already existed?

It illustrates social media’s capacity to deceive and to entrench political power.

It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination.

No, they wanted to lead a moral revolution, to transform the country — not only enacting a long list of new policies, but making a series of institutional changes that would entrench their power far into the future.

Now he has come to help establish and entrench Buhari’s Islamisation and Fulanisation agenda.