Sentences with phrase «against encroaching»

that Justice J. Heneghan, who rendered the Federal Court decision, felt compelled to comment: «Considering the fact that the Greenbelt was conceived as a «buffer zone» against encroaching urban sprawl, the steps taken by the NCC to declare the land surplus and to obtain a rezoning of the land seem more consistent with accommodation of urban sprawl, rather than resistance to the erosion of green areas.

To better position the Mi Mix 2 against encroaching rivals, Xiaomi's introduced a permanent price cut in India.

Performing as the King of Solana Beach, Antin actually took to the streets for more than a year, listening to the locals» stories, offering them advice and attempting to rally them to defend themselves against encroaching gentrification.

Players will protect a tower owned by Slipy's uncle using twelve different cameras to scout out and defend against encroaching enemies.

Until now, the three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have stood as a bulwark against the encroaching evil, their swords defending the innocent and helpless.

Earlier this year UK Sport chairman Baroness Sue Campbell spoke out against the encroaching normalisation of sedentary habits and the dangers this poses to the nation's health, saying: «In the UK, and across the globe, we are facing a crisis of inactivity.

The same happens to Time's palace, which becomes the setting for a climactic race against the encroaching, rusty destruction of the universe.

Harry and friends return to the besieged Hogwarts to mount a final defense against the encroaching armies of Voldemort, but none of the battles has an official start or stop.

It is where the tiny crinkled yellow - brown aborigines known as Bushmen have made their last stand against encroaching civilization, speaking in the clucking tongue of turkeys, eating lizards, hunting with bows and arrows and enduring the probing of fascinated anthropologists.

The movement of Jesus for the Reign of God is a combined struggle against the culture of the Roman and Greek imperial powers and principalities, and against the encroaching cultural pollution in the life of God's people.

«Will it be sufficient to mark, with precision, the boundaries of these departments, in the consti.tution of the government, and to trust to these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power?

The term «fundamentalist» was coined back in 1910 when the General Assembly of the Presbyterion Church decided to take a stand against encroaching liberal modernism and listed the «five fundamentals» of the faith:

One thing on which Rusty and I agree, however, is the need to keep fighting against the encroaching darkness.

In a similar way, Catholic teaching today, as notably set forth by John Paul II, strongly encourages the fullest possible cooperation among Christians in contending for a culture of life and of truth against the encroaching culture of death and deceit.

Not exact matches

The culture of Baalism surrounded the people of God; and the culture of the imperial powers of Egypt, Babylon and Assyria encroached against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Adults are supposed to provide the perfect shiny happy holiday (whether it's religious Christmas or Hanukkah or cultural Christmas or some mix) OR hold the line against someone else's holiday encroaching on your family.

What the rest of the world will see is that a man who has made a minimalist apology for «inadvertently encroaching on the personal space» of the women who made the allegations against him, has now apparently been restored to his place in the party.

A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

Think of Red Dawn as taking place in a retrofitted 1961 — a time not long after the bloom had fallen off the Castro rose, when Uncle Joe was almost dead but not quite, and nothing was cooler than cleft - chin, movie - ready Presidents set up against the steadily - encroaching Hun.

The easy, dreamy glide of the Steadicam prowling or racing to catch up with the kids combined with those Central Florida bursts of blue, purple, and orange, all set against the reality of encroaching financial destitution, contributes to an overall sense of displacement, fantasy teetering on the edge of collapse.

I felt that in the book and the earlier drafts of the scripts — before we worked them out — there was an opportunity [to counterpoint] Harry's desperate race for the Horcrux with the Dark Lord's ever - encroaching ability to kill everyone in the school, so there is this race against time.

Make it an encroaching alien ecosystem ala War Against the Chtorr (in fact, make that as an MMO instead.)

Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, famine, disease, and the ever - encroaching dark.

You take control of Winged Crusade and fight against the Landians, a warring neighbor who begins encroaching on your territory.

If you're at the front, you'll receive banana peels or single green shells to use against racers encroaching on your position.

As sea levels rise with climate change, beaches are losing ground against ever - encroaching waters.

I could imagine an argument that this somehow encroaches on the courts» inherent authority, but I'm not really convinced that that authority protects against this.

It might be that, even though the strict legal merits are low, litigation is commenced to send a message to the marketplace that the IP rights will be defended against all - comers with the intention of deterring others from encroaching.