Sentences with phrase «further encroachment»

The phrase "further encroachment" means the continued and gradual invasion, intrusion, or encroachment upon something or someone's space, rights, boundaries, or territory. Full definition
Despite the precarious situation, Scally is hopeful: «If we are able to stop further encroachment of their habitat, maybe they will be able to carry on and recover.»
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.
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.
Opponents of the amendment argue that it would be a departure from NEA's stated mission of «Great Public Schools for Every Child» and, as such, encourage further encroachment of the private sector into public education.
Keryn Rod, director of government and corporate relations at Purebred Breeders, said, «Dr. Croney gave the industry an idea of what it needs to do to combat further encroachment by the activists.
In the first place, so sweeping a moratorium would promote the domestication of the churches in their respective cultures, and this in turn would promote the further encroachment on them of tribal religion.
Some bears of little brain would likely dismiss Cardinal Collins's efforts to resist the further encroachments of the culture of death as examples of the kind of «culture warrior» activity Pope Francis allegedly frowns upon among bishops.
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