Sentence examples for encroachment in from inspiring English sources

The US appears under no illusions about the Kremlin's resistance to US encroachment in its back yard.

They quoted the commander as saying that the targets were tribal elders who had helped organize a militia to resist Taliban encroachment in the area.

They are predominantly fighting President Assad's forces, as well as trying to stop encroachment in their territories by Isis and al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra.

As Japan turned to outright invasion after years of encroachment in northern China, he privately begged Britain to protest, hoping that a strong western line would deter conflict.

The Kremlin's intervention last October allowed the regime to resist rebel encroachment in the coastal province, whose main cities have remained loyal to Assad.

The Park Service has decided to seek more of Graymoor's land to preclude a similar encroachment in the future, she said.

"Upstate, an encroachment of a foot or two may not be as serious as a six-inch encroachment in the suburbs," he said.

Yuan began his career in the Qing brigade of the Anhui army, commanded by Li Hongzhang, which was dispatched to Korea in 1882 to try to prevent Japanese encroachment in the area.

British diplomacy, proudly eschewing alliances in favour of "splendid isolation," sought to preserve a balance of power on the Continent and to protect the routes to India from Russian encroachment in the Middle East or Afghanistan.

No wonder a succession of reviews of the impartiality and professionalism of the British civil service have warned against the aggressive encroachment in policy making by ministerial aides and party hacks.

It was consistent with a theme of the week: No presumed Republican motif — from an emphasis on national defense to conspicuous invocations of faith to warm quotations of Ronald Reagan — is safe from Democratic encroachment in the age of Trump.