'encroachment' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You could use it to describe when someone intrudes upon another person's rights, space, or territory. For example: "The company protested the government's encroachment on their land."
The encroachment of the city today is unparalleled, he says.
With this encroachment of the city into the park, Athreya fears that conflict with humans is the prime threat to Mumbai's leopard population.
So lives have been saved, and the encroachment on privacy has been strictly limited by a court-approved process to relate to these particular categories," he said.
She tells them about the encroachment of measures against Jews, as backdrop to her parents' romance; of her mother being a film-lover "comfortable with the fact that she was a good looker", and shows a picture of the newlyweds smiling, wearing their yellow stars with "no idea what that would mean for them in the future".
The phrase persists not because it's a shared understanding but because it resonates with those women who understand that the encroachment upon their rights is, in fact, a form of assault.
The patches of soil between the mountains are fertile enough, but the province's land has to support some 37m people, a mixture of the Han Chinese majority and the various peoples that lived here long before Chinese encroachment began in the 16th century: the Miao, Yi, Dong, Bouyei, Bai, Shui and the rest.
Thanks to the encroachment of the private sector, millions of Frenchmen are paying a lot more than they used to for the water that flows from their taps.
Some want to legitimise this encroachment, by giving the committees formal vetoes, an automatic right to parliamentary debates and more resources.
Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's face encroachment from below by the much larger "premium" ice-cream brands, which are made well, but with less cream and a less obsessive commitment to luxury than the super-premiums.
He speculated that the rise of agriculture had led to human encroachment on wild forests, giving the chimp version of the bug, P. reichenowi, the chance to find a new host.
It recently launched Azhari TV, a satellite channel promoting centrist, moderate Islam in a bid to stop the encroachment of Saudi-inspired fundamentalism.The state has often seemed to prefer tokenism to real equality for Coptic Christians, who serve at many levels of government but remain starkly under-represented in the security establishment.
