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And yes, I too worry more about the encroachments of security theater than the threat of a police state — but the problem with flirting with the police state approach, even in a voluntary, only-for-a-day way, is that it makes those "small, manageable" encroachments seem, well, smaller and more manageable, and therefore harder to resist.
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The current global health regime is poorly fit to meet such challenges, for at least three reasons, which we will further examine: (i) the encroachment of security policies on communicable diseases in general, and public health surveillance in particular, (ii) the constraining mandates of United Nations (UN) institutions, and (iii) the interference of security agendas with humanitarian action.
These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the general governmentnot against those of the local governments.' Barron, for Use of Tiernan v. Mayor and City Council of City of Baltimore, 7 Pet.
The episode underscored the continuing deterioration of security in Yemen, where the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took office in February, has struggled to assert its authority in the face of rampant gangsterism, tribal skirmishes and encroachment by militants linked to Al Qaeda.
The lesser states would never have concurred unless this check had been given them, as a security for their political existence, against the power and encroachments of the great states.
Club's mission to preserve Central Park against encroachments of motorists.
So we're interested in interpreting the encroachments of nature".
What about the preservation of American liberties and the encroachments of bureaucratic liberal despotism?
Gertie was determined to protect her land from the encroachments of modernity.
This body, however, had to defend its jurisdiction against the encroachments of the Privy Council.
The art world is a high-end industry which has resisted the encroachments of the Web.
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