Twenty years ago, I was a conservative and believed in balanced budgets, limited foreign intervention and limiting the government's encroachment upon individual liberties and freedom.
Today, I believe in balanced budgets, limited foreign intervention and limiting the government's encroachment upon individual liberties and freedom, but now I'm called a liberal.
The Communist government's perceived encroachment upon the supposed autonomous region, which prizes its laws governing freedom of speech and protest, continues to unnerve locals.
"The door barring federal and state intrusion into [freedoms of speech and the press] cannot be left ajar; it must be kept tightly closed and opened only the slightest crack necessary to prevent encroachment upon more important interests," he wrote.
The phrase persists not because it's a shared understanding but because it resonates with those women who understand that the encroachment upon their rights is, in fact, a form of assault.
It was therefore essential, Madison concluded, for judges, whose life tenure insulates them from the demands of the majority, to serve as the guardians of our liberties and as "an impenetrable bulwark" against every encroachment upon our most cherished freedoms.
In 1931, as commander of Japanese troops in Korea, Hayashi ordered his forces to march into Manchuria, beginning the Japanese encroachment upon China that culminated in World War II in the Pacific.
Over the ensuing century, however, with the increased knowledge of the wild and its inhabitants that — as is always the case with humans — only comes in concert with our relentless encroachment upon them, the old city zoo began to wither and fade.
Consider for a moment the Web's recent encroachment upon television programming.
