Sentence examples for encroachment of power from inspiring English sources

However, Charles understood that noble encroachment of power had helped cause the revolt, and embarked upon a new reform program.

During the War of 1812, White took a dislike to the "encroachment of military power" as Winchester began to attract a sizable number of recruits going off to fight in the war.

The standout among them is the politically sharp-edged "Seynt Thomas Honour We," which notes that Becket's death liberated the church from the encroachments of royal power.

But communities without such clout are less able to push back against the encroachments of police power.

But less noticed amid the initial fanfare was that the Court's reasoning may have actually further codified the curtailment of privacy rights among another, particularly-aggrieved demographic, members of which have proven uniquely vulnerable to encroachments of state power and inured to the constant predations of a system explicitly designed to screw them over: drivers.

The Orleanists, enormously rich, had long been the centre of opposition to the encroachment of Bourbon royal power.

From the 1880s the party's history was characterized by a series of conflicts between those who argued for understandings with other Catholic parties that accepted the framework of parliamentary liberalism (or with parties that resisted the encroachment of centralized state power) and those for whom the tactical alliance implied a watering down of principle.

But by standing with a Latin American nation against the encroachment of a colonial power, Cleveland improved relations with the United States' southern neighbors, and at the same time, the cordial manner in which the negotiations were conducted also made for good relations with Britain.

The basic element in Mahmud's reforms was the reconstruction of the army to make it a fit instrument for preserving the Ottoman Empire against both the encroachments of European powers and the separatist ambitions of local potentates.

Both vowed secrecy, prompting speculation of a truce.This new scandal suggests that, no matter how many conspiracies it survives, AK will remain a target of those who resent its encroachment on their traditional bastions of power.

James Madison described the courts as "impenetrable bulwarks" against the encroachment of legislative and executive power.