Sentence examples for steady encroachment from inspiring English sources

If Snowden hadn't come forward, the steady encroachment of the surveillance state would have continued, and most people would have been none the wiser.

He spoke acrimoniously about the steady encroachment of rock music throughout Radio 2, saying, "The BBC has gone off the rails.

Part of that transformation, they observe, will involve a steady encroachment by machine interfaces into areas that have long been the sacred province of humans.

But despite the Russian women's steady encroachment on the top 10, which began with Anna Kournikova in the 1990's, no Russian woman had reached another major final until now.

Their steady encroachment, which has included attacking cargo trucks and burning down supply depots last month, has the American military scrambling to line up alternative routes into Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia.

Residents here have lamented the steady encroachment of mainland China into the city's affairs, including efforts seen by activists as trying to roll back the enclave's traditions of relatively open expression and freewheeling commerce.

Between 460 and 480 there was steady Visigothic encroachment on Roman territory to the east; the Burgundians followed suit, expanding westward from Sapaudia (now Savoy).

The steady centimeter-scale encroachment causes high tides and strong winds to push the ocean into coastal neighborhoods with increasing frequency in regions where elevations barely rise away from the shoreline.

In this paper, a new adaptive load encroachment prevention scheme based on steady-state security analysis and adaptive anti-encroachment zone (AEZ) is proposed.

Since the 1940's, there has been a steady loss of wildlife habitat owing to agricultural encroachment, pastoral saturation, and increased hunting and fishing for the provision of foods.

At one point early this year, he told the Cable News Network that "there has been a constant, steady erosion of the prerogatives and the power of the Oval Office and a continual encroachment by Congress -- the War Powers Act, Anti-Impoundment and Budget Control Act, previous instances where presidents have given up, if you will, important principles".