11.   Military rulers claim they can push through reforms because they do not have to make deals with entrenched political interests.

12.   New York has developed a risk-averse breed of politicians who prefer protecting their entrenched interests to competing for real power.

13.   Old habits dies as hard as entrenched interests.

14.   Officials say their company is more efficient than its nonprofit competitors, because it is unfettered by entrenched interests, political machinations and ideology.

15.   Panetta extolled Clinton for his commitment to change and his willingness to take on entrenched interests.

16.   Slowing the growth of spending, much less cutting it, has proved difficult for each party, given the entrenched interests that back nearly every government program.

17.   That spending policy pleases the entrenched interests that finance the party, but it has failed to produce dynamic growth.

18.   That will take, first, the courage to give voice to innovative approaches, and second, the courage to overcome entrenched interests.

19.   That spending policy panders to the entrenched interests that finance the party, but it has failed to produce dynamic growth.

20.   The hard task -- apparently too hard -- is take concrete measures that would challenge entrenched interests in each country.