The phrase "encroachment upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intrusion or violation of someone's rights, property, or space.
Example: "The new construction project was seen as an encroachment upon the local wildlife habitat."
Alternatives: "infringement on" or "intrusion into".
Twenty years ago, I was a conservative and believed in balanced budgets, limited foreign intervention and limiting the government's encroachment upon individual liberties and freedom.
Today, I believe in balanced budgets, limited foreign intervention and limiting the government's encroachment upon individual liberties and freedom, but now I'm called a liberal.
The Communist government's perceived encroachment upon the supposed autonomous region, which prizes its laws governing freedom of speech and protest, continues to unnerve locals.
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 door barring federal and state intrusion into [freedoms of speech and the press] cannot be left ajar; it must be kept tightly closed and opened only the slightest crack necessary to prevent encroachment upon more important interests," he wrote.
It was therefore essential, Madison concluded, for judges, whose life tenure insulates them from the demands of the majority, to serve as the guardians of our liberties and as "an impenetrable bulwark" against every encroachment upon our most cherished freedoms.
Muslim society, until the encroachments upon it of modernizing influences, has remained basically one composed of tribes or quasi-tribes.
That was Viele, writing in 1855 to the New Jersey State Legislature's Joint Committee on the Encroachments upon the Bay and Harbor of New York.
I can not, therefore, too strongly or too earnestly, for my own sense of its importance, warn you against all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of state sovereignty".
Karzai will resist encroachments upon his authority; efforts to satisfy northern groups such as those aligned with Abdullah will conflict with efforts to pacify the Taliban, who are rooted in the south and the east.
He was prosecuted for his tyrannical role in the Chersonese, probably at the instigation of the rival clan of the pro-Persian Alcmaeonids, but he was triumphantly acquitted as the champion of resistance to Persian encroachments upon Greek freedom.
