Sentence examples for to the encroachments from inspiring English sources

Owing to the encroachments of age, and the pull of family (Dmitri lived in nearby Italy), they never did.

Critics warned that the government's weak response to the encroachments of Islamic fundamentalism might lead to the further erosion of religious freedom and interethnic harmony in Malaysia.

Instead, Mr Berman sees it as a pathological response to the encroachments of modernity, and in particular to the spread of liberal, democratic values.

They fear that new canals from the dam's reservoir will reduce the flow of water and leave the fertile Indus delta in Sindh vulnerable to the encroachments of the Arabian Sea.In Sindh, even members of General Musharraf's own ruling coalition are afraid of openly supporting him.

Viewing the self as a "questionable-subject-in-process"—a subject who is responsive to the encroachments of semiotic material into conscious life and who is therefore without a fixed or unitary identity and valorizing the dissident potential of this decentered subjectivity, Kristeva seeks to neutralize the fear of the inchoate feminine that, in her view, underwrites misogyny.

Alexander Hamilton, though a proponent of strong central government, expected the judiciary to play a "peculiarly essential" role to safeguard liberties and act as an "excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body".

It is important to regularly monitor the effect of urbanization on the natural environment so as to allow us to control the encroachment to a reasonable extent.

In November factious tribes in Algeria captured Algiers and other towns, but by 1188 he had pacified his African territories and returned to his Spanish possessions to check the encroachments of the Portuguese and Castilians.

Like all Egyptian politicians he bows to the encroachment of religion in public life.

"I think people were responding to the encroachment of corporate America into small-town America".

The Indians responded to the encroachment with air power, giant howitzers and thousands of troops.