Sentence examples for of the encroaching from inspiring English sources

The enduring ritual of Oberammergau's Passion play was born out of a desperate promise during the 30 Years War to perform the play in perpetuity if the village was spared the ravages of the encroaching Black Plague.

The novel's title refers not only to the environmental catastrophe of the encroaching walls of ice but also to the emotional numbness of the victimized girl whom the warden and the narrator are vying to possess.

In response to a left-leaning friend's despairing note about the complacency of a press corps faced with the spectre of "the encroaching police state", Mr Hertzberg shrugs:I still don't know of a single instance where the N.S.A. data program has encroached on or repressed any particular person's or group's freedom of expression or association in a tangible way.

It also has a pluralistic media controlled by a diverse group of powerful magnates who have no interest in splitting the country or in seeing Mr Yanukovych strengthen his economic grip.Many are wary of the encroaching influence of Mr Yanukovych's son and his friends in big business.

The Renoir is flanked on all sides by every coffee house and cafe franchise you can name short of Spud U Like, and so its imminent rebranding can't help but seem like a reflection of the encroaching homogeneity of the area.

She learned of the encroaching fire at 2 a.m.

This view of the panopticon has opened up some interesting lines of discourse on the encroaching methods of control and surveillance in contemporary liberal societies (Brunon-Ernst 2012).

But the ethnic roar of the city, the encroaching threat of dark, unfamiliar faces, was apparently the focus of the group's attempt at parody.

Goya clutches the bedsheets in fear of the nightmare faces in the encroaching darkness.

The placid, even lush water view is offset by the encroaching realities of city.

They liked their land and their house, if not the encroaching edges of suburbia.