Sentences with phrase «from encroachments»

This arises from the encroachment of the psychobabble industries and their supplanting of the transcendent idea with a touchy - feely approach.

Pastors are not exempt from the law of the land, rather, the law of the land ought to protect them from the encroachment of lawmakers, such as Mayor Parker.

Setting aside regular times and protecting them from encroachment is a good place to begin.

Descartes attempted to protect Catholic metaphysical methodology from the encroachment of science through his «innate ideas», which depicted the Greek static form as something known a priori to human experience of the physical.

Stout invites us into a vigorous local democracy in which kids play soccer and a diverse and dedicated group of neighbors team up to protect their community from the encroachment of a large, bureaucratic medical center.

For the good of the entire community, religious and secular alike, we should protect that policy from encroachment from whatever corner.

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried said no neighborhood was exempt from the encroachment of luxury developments and big - box retail unless a commitment was made by legislators at all levels.

Many cases of spinal and related nerve damage are due to sudden trauma, but some can result from encroachment of bone or tumors into the space occupied by the cord.

It is thanks to Marie Byles, a conservationist (and also NSW's first female solicitor) that this amazing landscape has been preserved and protected from the encroachment of suburbia.

Mike Cooper, city of Enid military liaison and chairman of Oklahoma Strategic Military Planning Commission, told the News & Eagle in October the state was at risk of losing its three Air Force bases if military airspace wasn't protected from encroachment.

«Those remaining would face increased threats from encroachment, conflicts with humans and extensive habitat fragmentation,» said Gaveau.

Their security systems, guards and dobermans can not protect them from encroachment.

Global efforts to address climate change can be supported through the uptake of best agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, and increases in productivity that protect carbon sinks from encroachment.

Defending that asset from encroachment requires intelligent, aggressive legal counsel, and a firm experienced at handling the complexities of intellectual property law.

Not exact matches

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Uber.

The memorandum, and as yet undisclosed similar directives to various locales over which the NLRB has jurisdiction, have provoked a firestorm of outrage from businesses and business groups that say the memo spells the end of franchising, and represents an uneasy encroachment of greater federal regulation into business life.

On long - distance routes, Malaysia Airlines has also failed to remain competitive, particularly on flights to Europe and the Middle East, where it faces the steady encroachment of full - service carriers from the gulf.

The Establishment Clause is the «teeth» that protects your individual religious freedom provided under the Free Exercise clause from State encroachment.

As Ramm put it, «The encroachment of the word of man upon the Word of God is a danger we should be constantly alert to, and with all our strength we should maintain the freedom of the Word of God from the word of man.»

Her conscience hears the «dark encroachment of that old catastrophe,» the thought of Jesus floating across the waters from «silent Palestine,» summoning her to church.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

As he put it, «The law gives to capital an immense advantage in permitting its consolidation in great centralized corporations; and neither law nor justice can forbid laborers to combine, in order to protect themselves against the encroachments of capital, so long as they abstain from, that use of violence and rely upon reason and moral influence.»

Their task is to seek their own good, and the pursuit of that project means primarily the defense of their land against further encroachments and, where possible, the recovery of lands that have been illegally taken from them.

From the 16th century when Francis Xavier decided to cast his lot with the East against his own Western culture, to the 19th century when Christaller singlehandedly promoted Akan culture, to the 20th when Frank Laubach inveighed against the encroachments of American power in the Philippines, missionaries in the field have helped to promote indigenous self - awareness as a counterforce to Western cultural importation.

In that regard we have been very successful and are seeing increasing success in preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefs.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Learn how Europe's overreach with geographical indicators could affect your supply of U.S. cheese and discover what you can do to help stop this encroachment with help from the Consortium for Common Food Names.

There is no doubt in our minds that Ghana's duopolistic culture is gradually inching or gravitating towards a balkanization of political gangstarism if this encroachment of vigilante political gangstarism is not extirpated from the ever - sleeping paedomorphic body politic, Nkrumah's precious Ghana.

Damage from the London fogs and the encroachment of the Thames, terrorist bombs and the extensive damage during the great air raid of the 10 May 1941 which destroyed the Commons Chamber.

For now though, I think the political actors are happy with the status quo so expect greater amount of settlements into West Bank, violence in new settlements from Palestinians in reaction to encroachment and then wall extension and construction as Israel's booming economy gobbles up more land whereas the hobbled Palestinian economy continues to underperform.

These events appear to be the result of human encroachment into the monkeys» natural habitat, and probably resulted from transfer of human bacteria from hands to food that was then fed to monkeys, according to the report.

From one Israeli scientist's objection to Bedouin encroachment on the watershed of an experimental farm, he draws the sweeping conclusion that «in Israel science is political».

With support from WCS and other partners, we conducted patrols in and around the park to remove tiger and prey snare traps and prevent habitat encroachment.»

Instead, they received a flurry of complaints — from parents who felt yoga represented the encroachment of non-Christian beliefs.

Billy the Kid is invoked not only as Peckinpah saw him, a symbol of 19th - century Romantic ideas of rebellion, on the run from the inevitable encroachment of 20th - century capitalist forces, but also in terms of the back - to - the - land hippie nostalgia that arose when more radical political hopes were crushed at the end of the Sixties.

On film, it occasionally manifests itself in period pieces that focus on the encroachment and proliferation of the railroad: its engines (as in King Vidor's Duel in the Sun and Beyond the Forest, or the Hughes Brothers» From Hell) the manifestation of the industrial revolution in terms of hellmouths and serpents — William Blake's «Tyger» burning bright in the forests of a primordial night, all - consuming and inexorable.

In fact, like many other hipster intellectuals, Marshall McLuhan for instance, Illich and Goodman appeared to believe blacks» social disenfranchisement, to some extent, preserved them from The System's dehumanizing encroachments.

Danny Rakestraw, one of the few white officers to sympathize with and support the department's fledgling black police force, is further conflicted when his brother - in - law, Dale, rallies the Ku Klux Klan to «save» their neighborhood from further encroachment by black families.

Rosalie continually asserts that the encroachment of civilization and industry into the jungle are regrettable: «What is it about our species,» Rosalie wonders, «that allows us to watch sitcoms and argue over sports while cultures and creatures and those things meek and green and good are chopped, shot, and burned from the world for a buck?»

On the far side, another wadi leads down to a series of oases that is dying from the gradual encroachment of Bayoud disease, which afflicts palm trees.

The chief opposition from the Republicans contends that the private market has better options than the Federal Government could provide, and a federal encroachment into the refinancing market is unnecessary and too expansive.

There has never been a breed of dog designed to enjoy encroachment from strangers.

The Mayan Civilization grew in power in influence with its center in Teotihuacan (near where Mexico City is today) from around twenty one hundred years ago until the Eighth Century A.D. when it encountered encroachment from the Toltec and Aztec civilizations.

Drawing inspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people.

Beard's visual record of Africa serves as a prophetic warning concerning the irrevocable threat to wildlife caused by human encroachment — cautionary tales of loss, distance from nature, density, and stress that still resonate today worldwide.

Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska 1:1 Artforum International; May 1, 2008; Schambelan, Elizabeth; 312 words BASEL SCHAULAGER April 26 - September 21 Curated by Theodora Vischer Andrea Zittel's multiplatform practice elaborates a high - design, postmillenarian vision of rugged individualism - which is to say, one that remains very much on the grid, engaging with, rather than retreating from, the encroachments

The positive impact on the local communities can not be underestimated; Employment, trade, provision of water and protection from the community displacement resulting from desert encroachment all combine to help people in need!

For example, if the Earth got cold enough, the encroachment of snow and ice toward low latitudes (where they have more sunlight to reflect per unit area), depending on the meridional temperature gradient, could become a runaway feedback — any little forcing that causes some cooling will cause an expansion of snow and ice toward lower latitudes sufficient to cause so much cooling that the process never reaches a new equilibrium — until the snow and ice reach the equator from both sides, at which point there is no more area for snow and ice to expand into.

Increased equipment damage from corrosive effects of saltwater encroachment, resulting in higher maintenance costs and shorter replacement cycles

Illegal encroachment, grazing and drought have ravaged the Country's forests, threatening water supply as the main water towers face eminent danger from not only illegal logging, but also invasion by livestock herds.