Mercedes Schlapp, the director of strategic communications, who is responsible for long-term planning, advised some lower-level press staffers to deal with her because Hicks was distracted by the Porter situation — a move that one White House official said was interpreted as an encroachment on Hicks's turf.
("Liminal," in this sense, suggests an encroachment on male territory).
This is because they are seen to represent an encroachment on identity.
Ministers railed against the act as an encroachment on God's authority.
Having to establish grounds to get divorced can be viewed as an encroachment on freedom.
Making Americans buy health insurance was bad enough, an encroachment on personal liberty, they thundered.
Nowadays, environmentalism is often seen as simply an encroachment on the free market.
Others have complained that the stable represents an encroachment on Central Park.
PC language is widely viewed as an encroachment on individual freedom.
David Cameron has fuelled popular frustration with Europe by painting the European court as an encroachment on British sovereignty.
It means trying to understand the thinking of people who regard gay marriage as unacceptable, who worry that gun controls represent an encroachment on their civil liberties".
