Sentences with phrase «by encroaching»

Cornell law school has a no - wifi in class policy, though it is thretened by encroaching wifi from nearby buildings

The story of beach homes threatened by the encroaching sea is an example of why we need to act now to slow climate change.

The «Man of the Hole», in many ways, offers a face to a region threatened by encroaching development and deforestation from ranchers and farmers.

A group of U.S. scientists have had to be rescued by helicopter from Antarctica after being trapped by encroaching ice.

Places troubled by encroaching sea are usually subject to subsidence.

In many areas, for example, the coast is threatened not only from its seaward side by physical ocean processes, but also from its landward side by encroaching development.

For example, Floridian real estate could be decimated by encroaching seas.

Incorporating a sense of idealism through opiate colour schemes, the images are shot in Gran Canaria, revealing brightly lit beaches and bleach white structures contrasted by encroaching black shadows.

Featuring long takes of the weathered modules surrounded by the encroaching jungle, and environmental recordings layered with a composition by electronic musician Karl Fousek, Hartt's piece offers a study of this unrealized experimental project — and the optimism from which it was conceived — recontextualized within the political and economic struggles of contemporary Puerto Rico.

Having worked with seven Murano glass masters, Harvest draws parallels between the fragility of two communities affected by encroaching urbanism and growing industrial economies — the honeybees and the Murano glass - making families.

The artist's work delves further into the aesthetics and ideas explored in a 2015 series titled «Figures,» which feature indeterminate architectural structures that are overrun by an encroaching landscape.

But the power of her painting is injured by the encroaching chaos of lines.

Fortnite: Battle Royale is a free - to - play game mode that uses airbus to drop one hundred players onto an island map that is surrounded by an encroaching storm.

The jumping was imprecise, the camera even worse, and the entire game was plagued by an encroaching layer of fog - you know, just like every other Nintendo 64 game out there.

The original Kingdom Hearts, then, not burdened by the encroaching and thoroughly unwelcome bullshit mythology of subsequent titles, is absolutely in the spirit of the movies it adapts.

The site eventually fell into ruin, was covered by the encroaching forest, and «lost to science» until re-discovery in 1911.

The problem is that rising temperatures have led to a thinning of the permafrost which in turn has resulted in dozens of oceanfront homes being claimed by the encroaching seacoast.

In just his second on - screen role, Cruise plays an unhinged military cadet who goes to extreme lengths to protect the academy when it's threatened by encroaching condo developers.

A new study warns that more than 100 natural World Heritage sites are being severely damaged by encroaching human activities.

By contrast, the ice above the water would become relatively unstable, its foundation melted away by the encroaching water.

At almost twice the length of Arizona's landmark, the canyon once carried a river as large as any in Europe, until it was buried by the encroaching ice 3.5 million years ago.

Not exact matches

Violent crime is encroaching on this Riviera Maya tourist hot spot, as well as nearby Playa del Carmen and Tulum, jeopardizing a $ 20 billion a year business that attracts millions of visitors lured by the white sand beaches, archaeological ruins and pulsing nightlife.

The move is in part an effort by Walmart to become more competitive with Amazon, which is increasingly encroaching on the retailer's space.

Amazon — which has been making moves to encroach on Walmart's physical network by acquiring high - end grocer Whole Foods for $ 13.7 billion in 2017 — has built out a suite of digital payment offerings to attract and engage with consumers.

Amazon has put a lot of time and effort into improving its ability to deliver goods to customers, encroaching bit by bit on the country's two giant delivery companies, FedEx and U.P.S..

The use of religious and cultural beliefs to encroach upon sovereign territory for political and militarily strategic placement is the reason, whether it's sanctioned by international policy or not.

If America is founded to guarantee religious freedom by the first Europeans who arrived and later by the Founding Fathers, then why do politicians continuously use it in debates, primaries, and speeches to encroach individual freedoms with their religious beliefs?

As an independent person, man is required by Islam to believe in God, worship Him, and to live in a manner which assures him a clear conscience; it is incumbent upon him to work for a living, to control himself and his children, and to realize his interests and maintain his existence without encroaching upon the life and welfare of other people.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Or it may take on the expansive qualities of insatiable demands, frantic intensity, and encroaching suffocation of others, in which case solitariness is resisted and the inevitable restraints imposed by the totality are felt with the inimical and threatening qualities of an enemy.

Yet it also recognizes the process by which the forms encroach on the life that created them until that life must destroy the forms in order to continue its existence.

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.

A faction, for Madison, is defined not by how much it would encroach upon the autonomous individual but by its dedication to moral and political principles inimical to sound and just governance.

Since my body and the world are made of the same flesh, «this flesh of my body is shared by the world, the world, reflects it, encroaches upon it and it encroaches upon the world... [T] hey are in a relation of transgression or of overlapping» (VIV 248).

A report by UNCTAD notes that transnational companies encroach on areas over which sovereign responsibilities have traditionally been reserved for national governments.

And we can encroach too readily on others by being over-familiar, etc..

«These farmlands are usually abandoned by coastal farmers because the encroaching seawater has rendered the soil useless.

The Saints were stocked by the richest of all farm systems and supported by a populace not yet diverted by tennis camps, second homes and an encroaching football season.

What is truly amazing to me that so many of you are badge - wearing liberals who wouldn't think of encroaching on a woman's body by expecting her to carry an «unwanted» pregnancy to term, but the thought that that same woman should have her own bed (and her child should be rested) is just appalling and «cruel».

Inspired by the Rookie Moms book and desperate to stave off the encroaching baby blues, I decided when she was about three - and - a-half weeks old to have an adventure a day with her.

Providing the scientific foundation and research data, Dr. Ratey has been drafted into the groundswell of those whose mission it is to revitalize schools, combat the obesity crisis, stave off the encroaching epidemic of Sedentarism, by returning to evolutionary principles of physical exercise and proper diet thereby combating syndrome X, the underlying causation of much chronic disease.

By Parenting Consultant, Ann Brown As I write this article, we are already encroaching upon 2014.

Warnings of an encroaching authoritarianism in the region have, until now, quite understandably been overshadowed by the bloodshed and systematic breakdown elsewhere.

The problem, however, arises when this social sphere, which traditionally transcended the boundaries of the public / personal distinction, and which preserved, until the dawn of the modern age social integrity and conventional values, becomes encroached by the intervention of the new social — in the sense in which Arendt used the term.

Treasury minister Mark Hoban insisted that none of the conclusions of the EU Economic Governance Task Force chaired by Herman Van Rompuy «encroaches on Parliament's economic sovereignty» and as regard to the plans for macro-economic surveillance, no sanctions will apply to the UK.

Addressing members of the Shesheeshew company in Agona Swedru, he said «How can the Komenda Sugar Factory company which is 100 % owned by the Government of Ghana commence the cultivation of its own sugarcane when the likes of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom have encroached on the Factory's Lands meant for plantations?

«We did not encroach on the property or vandalise anything as being erroneously spread by agents of the APC - led government.

We won't stand by and allow the other parties to encroach on our freedoms and diminish our liberties.

It will interest the state government that most of the government lands acquisition are being encroached upon by land speculators who had been thereby selling to unsuspecting members of the public.

Some of the numerous questions raised by local citizens over the years include whether trees were improperly cleared, whether the plant encroached upon the habitat of an endangered bat and whether it destroyed wetlands.