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    encroachment


    1. It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty, both of the


    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. Every such encroachment, every violation of that natural distribution, which the most perfect liberty would establish, must, according to this system, necessarily degrade, more or less, from one year to another, the value and sum total of the annual produce, and must necessarily occasion a gradual declension in the real wealth and revenue of the society ; a declension, of which the progress must be quicker or slower, according to the degree of this


    4. He further said, and I quote: „The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism


    5. “At first this union met no resistance, but as the effectiveness of the Church began to be endangered by a multiplicity of beliefs and the encroachment of foreign influences, the Church Fathers branded Gnosticism as heretical…Evidence points to Samaria as an early center of Gnosticism, which probably existed there before the year 30 BC” (Americana, vol


    6. After such “formation” are they still able to think independently? These terms also warn us that these managers have little to gain by resisting government encroachment


    7. But after years of poaching and habitat encroachment, these majestic


    8. * I am not sure, but is the seriousness of the insidious socialist encroachment beginning to be obvious? I have wondered for years, how could this inferior socialist philosophy bear support among intelligent free people? Four elements constitute the most plausible answer: 1) the socialists are inspired by the godless religion of Socialism, 2) the drive for power effectively uses the manipulation of the emotions and actions of the lesser-educated ‘masses,’ 3) support for Socialism can be attributed to the concepts of the anti-capitalistic mentality23 plus the biased media, and 4) the ‘anointed’


    9. The remnants of abandoned chickees were the only reminder of putative encroachment by man and were abandoned long before the cottonmouth was born


    10. These communities will be totally self-sufficient and, apart from being protected from any encroachment from any unauthorised population

    11. deforestation and human encroachment the Ocelot is extinct in


    12. already begun their encroachment into the Third World


    13. reproduction rate and are affected by human encroachment though


    14. encroachment, unregulated hunting, poaching and the Bush meat


    15. Gibbons are under major assault from multiple areas, illegal hunting, traditional medicine, trade, human encroachment and habitat loss and degradation


    16. protesting the encroachment of “highly saturated


    17. This, however, surprised Wickland after careful consideration; for Spalding would have been the one to originally notice the encroachment and the violation of the height restriction


    18. Having the issue of height restrictions and encroachment resolved by the courts, it is our decision that we cannot issue you a certificate of occupancy for your development


    19. Syndot was working to insure the encroachment would


    20. The slow erosion of public wealth and public property by the encroachment of patenting intellectual property is also the slow erosion of the concept of public rights, or any common good

    21. By a singer whose public image was supposed to be as an anti-establishment naturalist; who loved Nature, and hated all big business and corporate consumerism? How venal and obvious was his sellout to being famous and rich living in the exclusive headquarters of the billionaires of Sun Valley? Fighting against any corporate encroachment of his exclusive Nature setting? While representing environmental interests by blatantly lowering himself to the level of an asshole redneck? He fell in love with the simpler carpenters who just drank beer and worked on his porches


    22. It was yet another encroachment on time-honoured traditions


    23. Adding peer-to-peer networking to an already popular, user-friendly operating system such as Windows led to its rapid growth in the business local area network (LAN) industry and its eventual encroachment into NetWare’s market share


    24. said he would not take up the time of the committee in showing that the Orders of Council of Great Britain and the Decrees of France, were, on the part of those nations, an assumption of power to give laws to this country, in direct violation of our neutral rights, and an encroachment on our sovereignty


    25. It was well known that, in England, the privileges of the Commons had been gained inch by inch from the Kings and Nobles by a steady perseverance; and that man must have very little knowledge of mankind, indeed, who was not persuaded that those privileges might be lost, as they were gained, by gradual and imperceptible encroachment on the one hand, and tacit yielding on the other


    26. When gentlemen are claiming the advantage supposed to be deducible from acquiescence, let me inquire what they would have had those to have done who believed the establishment of the bank an encroachment upon State rights? Were they to have resisted, and how? By force? Upon the change of parties, in 1800, it must be well recollected that the greatest calamities were predicted as consequences of that event


    27. If we examine the reasoning on which it is founded, the right to intercept and confiscate supplies, designed for a blockaded town, it will be difficult to resist the conviction that its extension to towns, invested by sea only, is an unjustifiable encroachment on the right of neutrals


    28. Why love her rulers? Why kiss the rod of iron which inflicts the stripes without a cause? When all admit we have just cause of war, such attachments are dangerous, and encourage encroachment


    29. Suppose we had descended from those nations—from the last, especially, which stood self-condemned, on her own confession, as incapable of free government, hugging her chains, glorying in her shame, priding herself in the slave's last poor distinction, the splendor of her tyrant master? Had we sprung from the loins of Frenchmen, (he shuddered at the thought!) where would have been that proud spirit of resistance to Ministerial encroachment on our rights and liberties, which achieved our independence? We should have submitted to the tea tax, the stamp act, and the whole train of Grenville and North ministerial oppression


    30. The latter can only be kept in time of war, and for comparatively but short periods; at a time too, when the public spirit is awakened and ready to oppose encroachment

    31. Hence, I conclude that the power of Congress over this subject has terminated by their own act, and that to resume it would be an unconstitutional encroachment on the rights of the respective States


    32. "From this period, the British Government has gone on in a continued encroachment on the rights and interests of the United States, disregarding in its course, in many instances, obligations which have heretofore been held sacred by civilized nations


    33. Encroachment of the sea, near New York, W


    34. At last, when the rumors of the Civil War between the Northern and the Southern States came to the Indians, it set their hearts aflame for battle with their white neighbors, whose encroachment they resented


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    Synonyms for "encroachment"

    encroachment impact impingement intrusion trespass usurpation violation invasion infringement

    "encroachment" definitions

    any entry into an area not previously occupied


    entry to another's property without right or permission


    influencing strongly