The state sometimes intrudes unacceptably into the lives of its citizens – but more often it is the best way of providing essential social services.
The Sun, the paper that routinely intrudes into people's privacy, thought the Guardian had secured "a hollow victory".
When the same river, at this point called the Padma, reaches the coast, it is often so feeble that the sea intrudes, poisoning the land with salt.The same problem curses the delta of the Indus in Pakistan.
They want to keep on good terms with a party which, even in its diminished state, could yet hold the balance of power in 2015.The permanent campaignIndeed, the extent to which an election that is officially more than three years away already intrudes upon the thoughts of senior Conservatives is something to behold.
Or it may be that the party sees the appearance of political debate as a useful way of fending off pressure for real change.Tony Saich, of the Kennedy School at Harvard, points out that such episodes, when the debate intrudes into the official press, have occurred a few times before at similar moments in the party's political calendar over the past two decades.
These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we It is a thought that never intrudes when looking at his luminous variations on the theme of the cherry tree.
It intrudes deeply into the internal workings of its members.
Unsurprisingly, denial intrudes; self-reporting produces underestimates.Either way, France's politicians have started to notice.
The more the state intrudes into electronic cash, the more it encourages inefficient notes and coin.
Mr McCain spoke at the institute's opening, recalling shouting matches with Kennedy, and mourning him as a friend who knew how to make "incremental progress on the problems of our time".That is where heartbreak intrudes, when watching teenage mock-senators trying to craft laws which might do some good.
But politics intrudes: general elections are due in Cyprus (in May) and Turkey (June).
