1.   However, there is some evidence of a recent reappraisal of this entrenched attitude.

2.   Entrenched attitudes only leave when agents retire.

3.   On the other hand, it is not difficult to believe that a police force may need public pressure to change entrenched attitudes and practices.

4.   Still, the pressure from professors and fellow cadets is intense, and entrenched attitudes are difficult to overcome.

5.   The issue has highlighted growing outrage among Muslim women over the entrenched anti-female attitudes of the male Islamic hierarchy in Malaysia.

6.   Rateb al-Shalah, chairman of the Association of Syrian Chambers of Commerce, says entrenched attitudes will slow down reform.

7.   In the Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, efforts to attack entrenched attitudes are being hindered by the Muslim clergy.