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encroach
1. In the last years of that century, the Dutch began to encroach upon this monopoly, and in a few years expelled them from their principal settlements in India
2. Those unproductive hands who should be maintained by a part only of the spare revenue of the people, may consume so great a share of their whole revenue, and thereby oblige so great a number to encroach upon their capitals, upon the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour, that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate the waste and degradation of produce occasioned by this violent and forced encroachment
3. When the Dutch, in the beginning of the last century, began to encroach upon them, they vested their whole East India commerce in an exclusive company
4. The arctic ice begins to encroach on Canada, Europe and Northern Asia
5. The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions, with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations: though the effect of those obstructions is always, more or less, either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security
6. "It is not for you to question his verdict, nor to encroach upon his time a moment longer
7. You must provide access to a beach and you must not encroach on it without a permit
8. Realising that the trip would encroach on Cruzel’s mid-afternoon appointment, forcing him to leave them earlier than he may have liked, and the senior thought this was an excellent idea and ordered transportation for the three of them
9. They only kill those who try to encroach on their territories
10. Green forests encroach on cultivated land that is full of crops in all stages of maturity
11. This means respecting the native, and also respecting yourself; it means giving the person emotional space, and at the same time, not permitting him or her to encroach upon yours
12. Navajos, groups that were not there a hundred years earlier, were beginning to encroach
13. Even more, the most viperous and black hearted one from among them advanced towards the she-camel trying to encroach upon her
14. More than this, the most viperous and black hearted one among them advanced on the she-camel in an attempt to encroach upon her
15. They may harass fish that encroach upon their perceived territory
16. Temperament / Behavior : Can be very aggressive with other fish that encroach upon their
17. Let another group of people encroach on somebody else's land and the owners of that land became threatened
18. She had a nose that seemed to encroach on her upper lip and slightly deformed her mouth
19. black started to encroach on her vision
20. He used Tommit’s distraction as a way to encroach upon us
21. Clara was not the one to encroach upon Wednesday
22. gave me the least reason to complain, either of any tendency to encroach
23. Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action; and, to do him justice, he never gave me the least reason to complain, either of any tendency to encroach upon me for the liberties I allowed him, or of his indiscretion in blabbing them
24. He longs to found this Second Eden, this New Jerusalem, this Prig’s Utopia! He doth not know that Eden is nought but an Oasis in the midst of Hell and that Hell threatens to encroach upon it by the Hour! E’en the Eden of the Bible was surrounded by Hades—and the Serpent penetrated soon enough
25. Miss Crawford had a claim; and when it was no longer to encroach on, to interfere with the stronger claims, the truer kindness of another, she could do her justice even with pleasure to herself
26. After the foregoing discussion, which has been much compressed, we may assume that the modified descendants of any one species will succeed so much the better as they become more diversified in structure, and are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings
27. Whatsoever Thou revealest anew will encroach on men's freedom of faith; for it will be manifest as a miracle, and the freedom of their faith was dearer to Thee than anything in those days fifteen hundred years ago
28. It is of a nature so sacredly inviolable that, when clearly ascertained, I would never encroach upon it by any means but through the regular constituted authority
29. If the President of the United States has gone beyond the letter of the law, which itself tends to encroach on the rights of the citizen, I would be the last person to justify him in thus trespassing on the dearest rights of a freeman
30. I would rather give up fifty times the value of land of the United States than to encroach against law on that of any individual
31. Seybert, after stating his indisposition to encroach on the rights of the citizen, which, however, must yield to the superior rights of the nation, which required them to act in this case, suggested the propriety of recommitting this person to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms until further order should be taken by the House, and preventing him in the mean time from communicating with those from whose conversation he might have derived his information
32. ), did not mean thereby to encroach upon the ordinary meaning of the word, which appears, for instance, on the title page of the Pharmacopœia in the sentence: “Official from January 1, 1890