How To Use Encroach In A Sentence
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After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
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She has no right to encroach on my time.
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Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
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From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
Obama's Culture War
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There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
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Council was addressing an application made for approval of a retaining wall that encroaches onto the boulevard.
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The developers also plan to prohibit further land encroachment along the banks of the canal.
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In these, as in the Crinoids, the interambulacral plates are absent, and the interambulacral spaces are filled by an encroachment of the ab-oral region upon them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
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We will never allow anybody to encroach upon China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
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I put it down to the fact that as he's Italian the encroaching of personal body space was just something that came with the territory.
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Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
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Silly and partial encroacher! not to know to what to attribute the reserve I am forced to treat him with!
Clarissa Harlowe
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It's a sign of the encroachment of commercialism in medicine.
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His bass is strident without encroaching, but never drives the rhythm; rather, it reacts to it.
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His new farm buildings encroached on his neighbour's land.
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Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
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Increased tourist flow may increase conflict with tigers and encroach on their habitat.
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Aziz Shaikh, an official from KDMC's anti-encroachment department said, "We have taken action against the construction as per minicipal rules, but Singh wants it to be demolished, which is not possible.
Daily News & Analysis
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Traditionally men have compartmentalized their lives, never letting their personal lives encroach upon their professional lives.
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Near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
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The results were derived from a 3.5 year observational study of median encroachments.
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His 30-yard free kick flew over the bar but the referee ordered the kick to be retaken for encroachment and moved the ball 10 yards forward.
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Escaping encroaching snows farther north, pronghorn run south through Wyoming's Gros Ventre mountains on their annual fall migration in 2008.
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A faintly rutted road, wide enough to allow a team of horses, holds off the encroaching prairie.
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The information therefore prayed, that the encroach - ment might be declared a purpresture, and be abated as such.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]
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we moved back from the encroaching tide
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Judd's sets consisted of green and blue upstage drops that moved through a number of positions but did not further encroach on the open space of the stage.
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He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations.
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This encroachment on media freedom is not in the public interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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One boy could never forget how he drew a distinction between mere amusement and such as encroached on the next days duties, nor the tone of voice with which the Doctor added and then it immediately becomes what St. Paul calls revelling.
Dr. Arnold
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Many farmers see downzoning as a taking, an encroachment on their economic rights and a diminution of their retirement nest egg.
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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
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As Smith sortied with private demons and public enemies over drummer Simon Wolstencroft's diatribal rhythms, the Fall's late '80s and early' 90s dynamic centered on the contested encroachment of keyboards upon Scanlon's guitar work.
The Fall
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So to be more precise, one of the most difficult unsolved problems in American constitutionalism – perhaps a constitutional “abeyance” or silence – is what a president is supposed to do with an act (presumably passed over a veto) that directly encroaches on presidential power.
Balkinization
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Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal.
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Accordingly, baidu did not encroach other information network to transmit the subjective fault of authority.
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Krishna had instructed the officials to make use of the land to avoid encroachments.
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He seemed to sense my encroachment, and increased his.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of that golden age, Cotton Mather himself, "smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied degeneracies," sat down to write the history, recording in the _Magnalia_ "the great things done for us by our God," in the hope that he might thereby do something "to prevent the loss of the primitive principles and the primitive practices.
Beginnings of the American People
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The prospect of the BBC “using its massive heft is likely to upset UK media and Internet companies, which have often complained that the corporation – funded by a mandatory tax on UK television households totalling nearly 3 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) – has encroached on activities in the private sector,” says the story, adding”
BBC to sell music downloads
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This encroachment on brain tissue by enlarged ventricles impinges on the caliber of arterioles and capillaries, often resulting in ischemia.
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New housing is starting to encroach upon the surrounding fields.
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The most sophisticated exponents against encroachments of the central state were the English pluralists Figgis, Laski, and Cole.
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The new institutions do not encroach on political power.
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The moss is threatened by habitat destruction through the reworking or infilling and landscaping of quarries, and also by scrub encroachment.
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Commenting on the report's recommendation on ride encroachment, the senior zoo spokesman said there were no future plans for the theme park and the rides to be extended into the zoo area.
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Due to encroachments, the birds are losing their habitat.
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Khan says that the mafia has not only encroached the land by keeping articles of his bidi and cigarette shop but also has done some pucka construction work.
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The lake has unchangeably remained the center of attraction for the people world over-but has unfortunately lost its pristine glory over the years due to the ceaseless encroachments of the avaricious residents.
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She tried to prevent her work from encroaching too far on her private life.
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One is the quasi-Democratic tilt of the screenplay, with bad guys bellyaching about taxes on the rich and encroaching Socialism (gee, that sounds familiar).
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After Tiglath-Pileser I, the Assyrians were in decline for nearly two centuries, a time of weak and ineffective rulers, wars with neighboring Urartu, and encroachments by Aramaean nomads.
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The R193H cTnI mutant alone encroaches on this limit as it has a dominant effect in all combinations to cause a Ca An equally important factor that likely impacts the additive effects of two activating mutant alleles is the combined incorporation of each mutant into the sarcomere given the central role thin filament stoichiometry and cooperativity plays in the regulation of contraction
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Similarly, the river is facing relentless encroachment and severe pollution due to inflow of huge amounts of sewage from the habitations.
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Further, the forest department too, was asked to file a caveat before the High Court to prevent the encroachers from obtaining a stay.
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Some residents had complained about sharp wood splinters and nails encroaching upon the children's play area in the park.
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For example, as suburban sprawl encroaches on farmland, people have more contact with both stable flies and house flies, creating conflict with livestock producers.
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Encroachment of woody vegetation into the grassy openings was assessed using belt transects and dendrochronology.
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Illegal shops and businesses are encroaching on public land and locals are fighting each other over customers.
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Thus, near the middle, Semiha Berksoy, a 90-year-old Turkish opera squawker, campily bedizened and reclining on a sofa, is slowly propelled across the stage as a recording of the Liebestod is encroached on by her decrepit screech.
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Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
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The development had brought with it uninspired malls, colossal grocery stores, and near-constant controversy as builders encroached farther into the desert with each passing month.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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If Joe Public shrugs off each new encroachment as minor in itself, he will have only himself to blame if he ends up in state-controlled helotry.
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wet patches gradually shrink, the bubbles subside, the dryness steadily encroaches.
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Reversible pulpitis is mild inflammation of the tooth pulp caused by caries encroaching on the pulp.
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Camps once built in remote rural environments are now squeezed by the encroachment of suburban sprawl.
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Archbishop Stratford, however, ignored several papal letters urging him to resist royal encroachments on alien priories.
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Providing you are not encroaching on their space, they are pretty placid animals.
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Boman Irani plays the bully encroacher in his own characteristic style.
Khosla ka Ghosla
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The law stipulates that a monument can not interfere or encroach upon an existing memorial.
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China's commercial encroachment on the terrain of traditional aid providers has caused consternation among western policymakers.
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Denser, shrubby ecosystems are also encroaching on grasslands in many areas.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe she felt like we were encroaching upon her territory, who knows.
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These encroachments were also considered a security risk for the VIPs frequenting this road.
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He spurns the label of ‘laxity’ for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
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However, officials say this is a simple case of encroachment of the tank's water spread area and the tank bed.
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In minutes, therefore, the Boskonians rushed up and proceeded to englobe the newcomer; supposing, of course, that she was a product of the world below, that she was manned by the race who had so long and so successfully fought off Boskonian encroachment.
Gray Lensman
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties.
A Royalist Fiasco
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His porky arms spilled over the sides of his chair and threatened to encroach mine. His fat legs blocked the gangway, meaning I couldn't step over him to get to the loo mid-flight.
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In Minquin province they live with violent sandstorms, drought and a desert encroaching at five to ten meters a year.
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We will never allow anybody to encroach upon China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
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Traditionally men have compartmentalized their lives, never letting their personal lives encroach upon their professional lives.
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He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever.
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But it shewed her how reasonable and just my expectations were; and that I was no encroacher.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Of course some young Facebookers are annoyed by the older generation's encroachment on their territory.
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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As the rate of rising sea level gradually slowed, rivers began to build deltas from retreating shorelines into the encroaching seas.
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In open violation of the Concordat, these nuptiality restrictions encroached upon the authority of canon law in the sacrament of matrimony and deprived the Christian wedlock of converts from Jewry of civil effects.
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The new censorship laws are serious encroachments on freedom of expression.
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Humans are encroaching on nature, but we can be more mindful of our impact when enjoying summer wilderness.
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We have also to ensure that seawater is not able to make encroachments on the land.
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far from harming the city, encroachment on the green belt will harm the surrounding villages.
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During times of increased rainfall, the sea exceeded its natural boundaries and encroached on land.
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Most such sanctuaries have either been encroached on or have been completely degraded.
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As quarrying expanded, it slowly encroached upon the Old Burial Ground, established by the Legislature in 1712.
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He encroached on such EMI memorabilia as Menuhin in the Elgar concerto, Artur Schnabel in the Beethoven sonatas and Casals in the Bach suites, which had never fallen out of print.
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Hua Hsu opens his essay with a look at some of the fears about racial encroachment that once prevailed among a certain cadre of scholarly white men in the 1920s:
White America Reacts
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.
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New characterless housing encroaches on the countryside.
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It seemed to be the perfect place to sit and study people without encroaching on their personal space.
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The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
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Mostly, though, the surface was low grass, gravel, or scrub, hence the generic name gobi, which means “stony desert” in Mongolian.6 Despite fears of sand encroachment on cities and farms, the gravel was more mobile and often more of a threat to habitation.7 Inappropriate human activity often paved its way.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Our home has no main foundations, and magnolia and bay trees are encroaching on it.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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As industrialization encroached, and communications and entertainment became more instantaneous, private, and personal, communities began to lose cohesion.
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Can the natural world resist the encroachment of the city?
Times, Sunday Times
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She tried to prevent her work from encroaching too far on her private life.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reed beds with rush, bullrush and clumps of mauve sea aster encroach on the narrow channel.
Country diary: Cornwall
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Some galleries—though airier, better lit and more picture-friendly—are slightly smaller and constricted, as if the walls are encroaching.
Modernizing the Academy
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The Thought Police Cometh
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Aircraft encroaching on U.S. airspace was a more straightforward affair in that the warning time was longer and the source of the threat was obvious.
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We are forced to reimagine those images; he rescues that terrible footage from encroaching banality.
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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
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Intensified upwelling would enhance aridity along the west coast of South America by preventing moist air masses of the Pacific anticyclone from encroaching landwards.
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Powys withstood encroachments from England and Gwynedd throughout its existence, although the Welsh custom of partible inheritance caused rivalries among the ruling family.
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I resent all these encroachments on my valuable time.
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His new farm buildings encroach on his neighbour's land.
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They are encroaching into the space reserved for the buses.
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I stepped up and slotted it home but the referee ordered a re-take because of encroachment!
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Furthermore, we fail to understand the logic using degeneration and dilapidation of the park as the justification for immediate encroachment.
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His job often involved climbing onto roofs and lookout posts so he could identify the enemy and protect Marines from encroaching insurgents.
The Sun
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This encroachment on brain tissue by enlarged ventricles impinges on the caliber of arterioles and capillaries, often resulting in ischemia.
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The movie industry had chosen to ignore the encroaching competition of television.
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Humanity is being squeezed between deserts expanding outward and rising seas encroaching inward.
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The Forest Conservation Act of 1980, ostensibly meant to protect the environment, in effect reduced tribal communities to encroachers and thieves in their traditional habitat.
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Bureaucratic power has encroached upon the freedom of the individual.
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On physical examination, the patient was found to have right scrotal swelling encroaching on the epididymis and testis.
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The dorsal terminal branches may encroach on the radial side of the hand, often reaching the radial side of the second metacarpal bone and even the dorsum of the first phalanx of the thumb.
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Her timbers are swollen and misshapen; repeated doses of chemicals are being applied to stave off the encroaching rot.
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The law stipulates that a monument can not interfere or encroach upon an existing memorial.
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My essay last week in the Huffington Post Tis a Pity She's No Longer a Whore -- Broadway Armageddon -- I should have received a lot more hits with such a brilliant title decried the ever encroaching use of synthesizers and the like replacing live musicians.
Melody Breyer-Grell: Broadway Miracle Sighted on PBS -- South Pacific Permitted Full Use of Real Instruments
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They were times of fresh resolve, novel encroachments of the selfish gene.
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An adverse Judgment would have represented an encroachment on press freedom to report on political matters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The article proceeds to read several fascinating folia of some thirteenth-century Bibles moralisées and discusses, in particlar, the way that pagan Eastern thought was represented in the form of astrologers, and are constantly seen as challenging and encroaching upon the divine sciences.
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His land is also being illegally occupied by encroachers.
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Two of the Western Isles were so battered by ferocious storms this January that the Atlantic Ocean has encroached more than ever.
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As with so much of ancient Britain, however, the theme-park disease is encroaching.
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The subjects themselves so inosculate, that it would be strange indeed if the writers should not occasionally encroach upon each other's province; but even this, from the variety of argument, and mode of illustration, will be found interesting.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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Have you lately observed any encroachment on the just liberties of the people?
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Metis, who were part French Canadian and part native, feared that the encroachment of other settlers would mean the loss of their freedom and identity.
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The family nextdoor claimed it encroached on their land.
The Sun
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Surgery and chemotherapy may palliate pain caused by tumor growth and encroachment on normal structures.
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The Apuan Alps and the encroaching Apennine foothills of Garfagnana are a recurrent theme in the landscapes and townscapes he produces in his top floor studio.
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His new farm buildings encroached on his neighbour's land.
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Development is also encroaching on its native habitat.
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He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
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The Forest Department has to be given the muscle to evict encroachers and control stray dog numbers within the park.
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The paddy fields in Kerala have to be protected from human encroachment.
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If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And by the way, I think that encroachment is a more useful legal concept than “harm”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Change I Can Believe In
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In short, my dear child, your reasons are so good, that I wonder they came not into my head before, and then I needed not to have troubled you about the matter: but yet it ran in my own thought, that I could not like to be an encroacher: — for I hate a dirty thing; and, in the midst of my distresses, never could be guilty of one.
Pamela
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A major cause of the dwindling numbers has been degradation of habitat through overstocking of sheep, bush encroachment, cultivation, erosion and alien invaders.
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The desert continually encroaches on the fertile land.
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Apart that is for the 3m square miles of northern Canada that are completely untouched by any form of human encroachment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Balter suggested that GameStop can withstand near-term encroachment from physical retailers.
Undefined
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He says: ‘Bush encroachment and bush densification in grassland leads to tremendous erosion.’
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Heritage advice prevented any encroachment beyond the original railway station alignment.
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There's something quite magical about autumnal afternoons with the curtains open and the twilight encroaching.
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The growth of Parliament was bound to encroach upon its importance by offering another body which could claim to speak for the nation.
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The locals came forward to remove encroachments, which included tying up of pigs and milch animals.
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In Lincolnshire people opposing encroachments on rights of commons emphasized the law of the land as the basis of their claim.
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In Ming dynasty , the external encroachment on the frontier was very serious.
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What happens for the rest of the film should have the feel of slowly encroaching fate, or a collision course between the self-disciplined but ferocious Purvis and the flamboyant but no less ferocious Dillinger.
DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He disagreed withy my use of the word cordon, replying: "It's not necessarily to keep away from them, but to keep them away from us," adding that extra space for reporters give us room to roam, and ensures nobody inadvertently encroaches on that space.
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What's needed, they say, is a national land-use policy that will simply forbid human encroachment on wildlife corridors.
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Those of them which are of an abstergent nature, and purge the whole surface of the tongue, if they do it in excess, and so encroach as to consume some part of the flesh itself, like potash and soda, are all termed bitter.
Timaeus
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Sewage, effluents from dyeing and electroplating units, indiscriminate sand mining and encroachments have all ravaged the river.
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He, too, noted with mild asperity the harsh encroachment of industrialization on the ethereal world of the cataract.
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.
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As the confessional wends its way around the circle and begins to conclude, the girls anxiously wipe away their tears, and take up their obstinance once again as thoughts of their parents waiting outside the door begin to encroach upon the fragile intimacy of the classroom.
American Grace
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If Mlinko is going to suggest that there might, in fact, exist a set of essentialized relationships between styles of writing and the gender of bodies, then I fail to see how I can easily list women whom I might wish to emulate or upstage without encroaching upon stylistic territory that some feminists might staunchly demarcate as uniquely their own.
By the Numbers : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary.
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Catharine, on the other hand, considered him rather as an encroacher upon the grace which she had shown him than one whose delicacy rendered him deserving of such favour.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Now this landscape is a stage removed, half-blurred by dreams, its shades and shapes encroach on our security.
Forest Magician
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They rang up and more or less told us not to encroach on their territory.
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The more the sun wanes the more lustrous become the colours of the encroaching night until the entire picture is suffused first with magenta and finally saturated in deep blue.
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The family nextdoor claimed it encroached on their land.
The Sun
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Or go to just about anywhere on that subcontinent where a Walmart is being protested for land theft, encroachment and despoilation.
Epochal Transformation Accelerates as Global Financial Matrix Disintegrates
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New housing is starting to encroach upon the surrounding fields.
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First published in 1944 by the University of Chicago Press, this slender, readable book on the differences between individual and group thought and the consequences of choosing the latter--private property ownership versus communism, individuality versus centralized government or dictatorship, capitalism versus socialism versus naziism, and the experience of personal freedoms versus never-ending political encroachments--remains a terrific read today.
Most Influential Economist?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He promised no further territorial encroachments when Chamberlain caved in at Munich and broke the promise shortly thereafter.
Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?
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The rhododendrons encroached ever more on the twisting drive.
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Clark's attitude toward his characters has never encroached on his love of gazing at their lean, budding bodies, and Ken Park is no different.
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The northern waterways were closed, the rivers and lakes being slowly choked by the encroaching winter ice.