The poet Philip Larkin, for instance, deftly avoided the encroachments of middle age — "This loss of interest, hair and enterprise," as he characterized it in "Continuing to Live" — by insisting that he had never been youthful in the first place.
The encroachment of the city today is unparalleled, he says.
The worst has been observing the gradual destruction of hope and the encroachment of despair.
The patriarch has sought to unify the faithful with warnings of the encroachment of secular values.
Unfortunately, the encroachment of the federal government in Medicaid threatens to reduce states to mere agents.
Their nomadic life was gradually curtailed by the encroachment of settled agriculture on the pasturelands.
Like all Egyptian politicians he bows to the encroachment of religion in public life.
He tracks the encroachment of commerce on animal habitats and on indigenous communities.
The encroachment of private development on what should be public space is another matter.
The Montagnards have other grievances that predate the encroachment of plantations, the demonstrators said.
