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4.They understand the law will entrench the rights of the carpet-baggers who have looted the state as it has privatised assets.
5.Some conclude that the Shias have no real intention to share power, only to string America along while using its firepower to destroy rivals and entrench their own dominion.
6.Living in the shadow of India, with its 1bn population and surging economy, countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh remain transfixed by fears of domination by the regional hegemony and unwilling to contemplate economic integration on terms that entrench Indian supremacy.
7.These realities create a dilemma for the Government. While the Government aspires for a more integrated Singaporean Singapore, it also realizes that attempts to bring communities together quicker than they are ready to will only generate resentment, resistance and further entrench divisions.
8.More worryingly, teaching global as well as local languages may entrench class divides: while rich metropolitan kids enjoy increasing returns from learning English and Chinese, schools in the impoverished provinces, expected somehow to teach global, national and local tongues, may fail to equip their pupils adequately in any.
