Sentence examples for encroaching for from inspiring English sources

However, oil companies have been encroaching for decades, often with devastating impacts.

Eritrea says that the Ethiopians had been encroaching for months, trying to exact tax from Eritrean peasants or pushing them off their own land.

However, law enforcement is encroaching for a reason, which is that there have been many documented instances of unconscientious behaviour from rogue doctors running "pill mills", and from pharmaceutical companies themselves.

Cells can respond to a host of environmental vicissitudes such as changes in nutrients, bursts of hormones, or encroaching neighbors, for instance.

Nonetheless, there is encroaching competition for both companies from large incumbent players like Huawei (which competes directly with Ericsson but also increasingly with Cisco), Nokia Siemens/Alcatel Lucent (which also recently merged) and even smaller upstarts moving into their common, traditional carrier and service provider market.

That red-card offense was swiftly followed by offenses by Iván Córdoba, a 33-year-old Colombian, who earned two yellow cards: the first for encroaching at a free kick, the second one for a wild kick.

At this point, Wilson established a precedent for encroaching federal power on traditionally privatized industry, an act long advocated for by Progressives throughout the early 1900s.

There are also plenty of shrill polemics against the United States for trying to steal Taiwan and on the Philippines for encroaching on the South China Sea.

Members of the Vietnamese majority, blamed for encroaching on land traditionally held by members of minority groups, had been singled out for attack, and the police had set up roadblocks to prevent minority people from entering more populated areas.

Fishermen are sometimes locked up for encroaching on another country's claim.

Xabi Alonso converted the penalty, but this time Batres whistled Fàbregas for encroaching.