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With a group of eight others, including the Guardian's Larry Elliot, I have co-authored a proposal for a Green New Deal to tackle what is, in reality, a 'triple crunch': economic recession, accelerating climate change, and rising oil prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production.
The truth is that today we face not just a single crisis but three – a combination of a credit-fuelled financial meltdown, accelerating climate change, and soaring energy prices, underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production – and only a combination of public intervention and regulation can begin to deal with them.
"If it does get uncomfortably hot and starts encroaching into the area of health and safety, I think you really have to think about where you are making athletes go to.
This is about history and strategy; about great power spheres of influence, and about the strategic failure of the west to understand that Russia could not – and would not – stand by and watch EU and Nato enlargement encroaching ever closer.
As a result, over 4m American acres have already been preserved from encroaching subdivisions, shopping malls and other commercial developments.
Most troubling of all is anything that resembles a deposit, in that it can be reclaimed at will and in full.Bankers and this special report talk about shadow banking in a much more sweeping way, to refer to any financial institutions that banks see encroaching on their business.
Eritrea says that the Ethiopians had been encroaching for months, trying to exact tax from Eritrean peasants or pushing them off their own land.
In Thailand, Mr Nicklaus designed a course that was accused of encroaching on the protected land of a national park.There have been frequent disputes in which golf-course developers have been pitched against environmentalists and local farmers.
His strange name, Huber, was borrowed from a Swiss apiarist who had written a definitive study of bees in defiance of encroaching blindness.
Using the Global Positioning System to map patrol routes and attack locations, they saw that the Ngogo chimps' reconnaissance fanned mainly beyond their north-eastern border, encroaching onto the land of a neighbouring group.
In response to a left-leaning friend's despairing note about the complacency of a press corps faced with the spectre of "the encroaching police state", Mr Hertzberg shrugs:I still don't know of a single instance where the N.S.A. data program has encroached on or repressed any particular person's or group's freedom of expression or association in a tangible way.
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The term "encroaching " primarily functions as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe something that is gradually intruding or advancing into an area. As seen in Ludwig AI's examples, it often carries a negative connotation, suggesting an unwelcome or detrimental intrusion.
Expression frequency: Very common
