Sentence examples for resist encroachments from inspiring English sources

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.

The Lombard communes reached the height of their power in the 12th century, when, in an effort to resist encroachments by the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, they formed the Lombard League; the league defeated the emperor at the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and forced him to recognize its members' autonomy in the Peace of Constance (1183).

1926-2008 "It may be tripe but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act".

A central issue relating to the regulation of dual practice is that it is an activity in which practitioners as individuals tend to resist encroachments on their personal freedom, but collectively the profession has a strong interest in regulation to ensure quality control and prevent oversupply.

They note that Germany's federal government is under pressure from its 16 regional governments the Länder to resist encroachment from Brussels on regional rights.

To that end, their proxies have played a big part in the interim government in Baghdad, while trying to resist encroachment by the central government on Kurdish powers in the north.

Reinhard Mohn, the family patriarch who oversaw much of Bertelsmann's growth after World War II, has for years resisted encroachments on the company's independence and forced it to finance its steady expansion primarily from internal cash flow.

Instead, he is apparently trying to send a resolution to the House floor to hold Holder in contempt of Congress for doing what Republican administrations have done over the years -- resisting encroachments by Congress in document demands that violate the separation of powers and might compromise ongoing criminal investigations.

Peasants and indigenous communities had resisted encroachment by neighbouring estates throughout the early national period and continued to do so into the 20th century.

The political history of the various Uralic groups largely has been one of resisting encroachment from adjacent European (especially Germanic and Slavic) and Turkic groups and from other Uralic neighbours.

The settled peoples of China needed the products of the steppe to a lesser extent, but they could not ignore the presence of the nomadic barbarians and were forever preoccupied with resisting encroachment by one means or another.