Sentence examples for encroachments upon from inspiring English sources
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.
Arghun Khan, the regional Mongol ostikan at the time, placed so many restrictions against Armenians that it prompted Hasan-Jalal in 1256 to journey to the capital once more to protest against the encroachments upon Catholicos Nerses.
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 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.
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.
