Sentence examples for beginning of an encroachment from inspiring English sources
The company manager, Sebastian Olson, noted that the new law ended yellow cabs' exclusive right to pick up people on the street and said that he feared this was just the beginning of an encroachment by livery cabs.
Other protesters spoke of an encroachment of civil liberties by French authorities, in the wake of the November terror attacks.
The awning, though, stretches over the right of way, an encroachment the department flagged as a second violation.
"Upstate, an encroachment of a foot or two may not be as serious as a six-inch encroachment in the suburbs," he said.
"But in Manhattan, an encroachment of an inch and a half could be a disaster".
The move could help eBay protect its dominance of online auctioneering from an encroachment by Yahoo or Google.
They also needed to get an encroachment waiver because of the portion of the wall on town property.
International institutions, for them, represent just such an encroachment.
("Liminal," in this sense, suggests an encroachment on male territory).
Similarly, old presentation software (hello PowerPoint!) is experiencing something of a gradual encroachment of cloud platforms, as today Prezi announces its hit 40 million users.
At the beginning of the last century Max Weber wrote about the disenchantment of the world and the encroachment of an iron cage – or, in a more correct translation, hard steel casing – of rationality – a Stahlhartes Gehäuse.
