So we're interested in interpreting the encroachments of nature".
Good intentions and police action may be no match for the encroachments of gadgetry and wirelessness.
As a novelist she prizes solitude and regrets the encroachments of modern life.
Gertie was determined to protect her land from the encroachments of modernity.
This body, however, had to defend its jurisdiction against the encroachments of the Privy Council.
But the encroachments have not been as dramatic as some people think, says Mr Alleva.
But the M.B.T.A. has worked for a century, dutifully protecting birds against the encroachments of mankind.
Muslim society, until the encroachments upon it of modernizing influences, has remained basically one composed of tribes or quasi-tribes.
Like frogs in slowly heating water, we have accepted the encroachments because each small step seems both useful and harmless.
Protecting British sovereignty from the encroachments of "Eurocrats" in Brussels has consistently served as a political call to arms.
