The Suabian cities, inspired by the heroic attitude of the Swiss, now made another attempt to protect themselves against the encroachment of the reigning princes upon their ancient rights.
In all cases it is considered as an encroachment on the rights of the family or of the husband over the girl, and it is punished.
Generally, but not always, they denote encroachment and displacement; encroachment which tells us which of the two families has been the stronger, and displacement which has the following effect.
If correct, it makes the province of Shirvan a likely part of the original Lesgian area--encroachment having been effected by the Armenians, Persians, and Georgians.
The vast extent to which this modification implies encroachment and intermixture is the great key to nine-tenths of the complexities of the difficult ethnology of Hindostan.
Hence, the Paropamisans may safely be considered as a population of a receding frontier, the encroachment upon their area having been Afghan.
In the Caribbean, the sensitive resentment by our people of any supposed fresh encroachment by another state of the European family has been manifested too plainly and too recently to admit of dispute.
But the whole passage is a defence of labour against the charge of encroachment brought against it by wealth.
Wealth, real wealth, has hardly as yet much reason to complain of any encroachment of the labour movement on its rights.
The passage of the lecture in which the phrase occurred was: "Wealth, real wealth, has hardly as yet much reason to complain of any encroachment of the Labour Movement on its rights.
This remarkable action may be noted from the embouchure of the Ohio to the mouth of the Mississippi itself, though at certain points the extent of the encroachment and the formation that neutralises it is much greater than at others.
For every encroachment on one bank there is a corresponding formation against the opposite,--a deposit caused by the eddy which the new curve has produced, so that the river thus preserves its original breadth.
This, in my judgment, would be unwise, if not also an actual encroachment upon the constitutional rights of the executive branch of the Government.
The Assembly had realized that the chief cause of trouble was the encroachment by the whites upon Indian territory.
The three things were, pressure from within the tribe; some extraordinary display of Confederate strength that would presage ultimate success for southern arms; and encroachment by the Federals.
But Rodolph, as jealous as he had hitherto been careless of his sovereign authority, refused to ratify this treaty, which he regarded as a criminal encroachmenton his sovereign rights.
Yet all the measures of the Catholics did not, as their opponents alleged, proceed from a spirit of encroachment -- many of them were the necessary precautions of self-defence.
The encroachment of the waves, especially on the eastern side of the Bill, has been more rapid than on any other part of the coast, except perhaps certain parts of Norfolk.
Long after this time, this place was as large and as considerable a village as the county could boast; but it is reduced, by the encroachment of the sea at different times, to about a dozen dwellings.
Let his task, indeed, be suited to his powers; and if he cannot rule, by all means let him serve; but still with a margin and play of spiritual freedom secure from encroachment and contempt.
It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman and of those who might be disposed to employ him.
Some astronomers ascribed this baffling appearance entirely to instrumental imperfections; others to atmospheric agitation; others again to the optical encroachment of light upon darkness known as "irradiation.
One additional ray of light thrown on the marvels of creation--a single, minutest encroachment upon the strongholds of ignorance--is recompense enough for a lifetime of toil.
Courcelle was certainly mistaken in supposing that the council's decision was an encroachment on his authority.
Evidently, if there was encroachment upon this occasion, it was encroachment of the civil on the spiritual power.
The following incident will show to what lengths he was prepared to go when he thought that there was an encroachment of the spiritual on the civil power.
In his view it was anencroachment of the spiritual upon the civil power.
Mr. Stanley's encroachment on the functions of legislation was only more defensible because less corrupt.
By the time astonishment subsides, the power of civilised men is understood, and their encroachment is felt.
The time arrived when, alienated by English encroachment on the one hand and French seduction on the other, the Indians began to assume a threatening attitude towards the province; and many voices urged the necessity of a resort to arms.
The erection of this fort, better known among the English as Crown Point, was a piece of daringencroachment which justly kindled resentment in the northern colonies.
The King, therefore, would have them remember that there must be no encroachment on the sovereign power, which was vested wholly in the King.
The Declaration of Independence meant war against the ever-growing encroachment of despotism.
Rude forts and warlike implements show there was the sameencroachment of the strong on the weak as now.
The cutting of large, mature oaks, walnuts, and hickories opened up the woodland and permitted large scale encroachment by subclimax species.
Prolonged protection from fire permitted encroachment of trees and shrubs into situations where they had not grown previously.
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
The Creeks in particular are covered from encroachment by the interposition of the General Government and that of Georgia.
This encroachment is denounced by the prophet Jeremiah in the opening words of his oracle against Ammon: "Hath Israel no children?
