In the first discussion of this subject, the negative was generally regarded as a means of defence against encroachments of the legislature on the rights and powers of the other departments.
Yet, while it was evident that Corea would not be renounced without a struggle, the Pekin authorities, for some years, met the Japanese encroachments with a weak and vacillating policy.
With this he waged successful war upon the Tibetans, and began a course of encroachments on Chinese territory which was not to be distinguished from open hostility.
For nine years Philip was probably brooding over the subject of the encroachments of the English, and the waning power of the Indians.
And yet he as distinctly saw that, unless the encroachments of the English could be arrested, his own race was doomed to destruction.
The Indians now began to be seriously alarmed in view of the rapid encroachments of the English.
Bismarck and the Kaiser opposed the encroachments of the Social Democracy in a succession of anti-Socialist repressive measures.
The encroachments of scientific materialism have failed as signally in the political sciences as they have failed in ethics.
They are constantly working for better public educational facilities, and are especially hostile to the encroachments of the Church upon the domain of public education.
Where the encroachments of the sea have undermined the land the cliffs are left abrupt and naked, in some places to a very considerable height.
He became jealous of their growing power, and particularly in consequence of intelligence that reached him concerning the encroachments made by the latter in the island of Java.
At the same time, he despatched Ètienne de Lavin to check the encroachments of the insolent rebels.
The love of Liberty carries with it the courage to preserve it from encroachments from without and from contempt from within.
The encroachments of the French," said William III.
They held that there should be no delay in resisting, at whatever cost or peril, the firstencroachments of power on their liberties.
The representatives of freemen are forbidden, on the floor of Congress, to remonstrate against the encroachments of slavery, or to pray that she would let her poor victims go.
They raise no controversy about the abstract legitimacy of Government encroachments on the sphere of private capital or of legal enlargements of the rights or privileges of labour.
It ensured the survival of Protestantism against the encroachments of an enemy who never slumbered.
The Minsk marshes in Russia form the largest area of this character still left, and on these large encroachments are gradually being made.
When the British government awoke to the danger, all that could be done was to prevent further encroachments by likewise annexing territory.
To consider in what degree the monarchical principle should be mingled with, and qualified by, securities for the freedom of the people, and checks against the encroachments of the prince.
Formed in Toronto, in 1889, to secure the disallowance of the Jesuits' Estates Act, and generally to oppose what was described as the "political encroachments of ultramontanism.
Spanish Version, in 1790, of Encroachments by Russia.
Isle, the astronomer, on his return from St. Petersburg, revived the attention of Spain to the importance of securing her possessions in the New World against the encroachments of other Powers.
It was a last desperate stand against the inevitable destiny which was robbing the Indian of his empire; a final protest against the intolerable encroachments of the pale face.
It was not until forced to action by the encroachments of a dangerous rival, that it became the prodigious power of later times.
Some encroachments of the civil on the spiritual power had, he said, taken place in that country, but "these were things to be guarded against in a country in which a Church is in course of establishment.
The French king in writing to La Barre on the subject authorized him to check, as far as possible, English encroachments in that quarter.
The English had several subjects of complaint against France, besides the general encroachments which she had continued to make on the liberties of Europe.
Every effort, therefore, was used to awaken those states to a sense of the daily repeated encroachments of Buonaparte, and of the extreme danger to which they, were respectively exposed by the rapidly increasing extent of his empire.
That glorious ambition in Tamerlane, to break the chains of enslaved nations, and set mankind free from the encroachments of lawless power, are painted in the most lively, as well as the most amiable colours.
Some parts of the chain have been rendered to a great extent immovable by the vegetation which has gradually covered them, and these have opposed a formidable obstacle to the encroachments of the sands.
The waters of the "black bay" which swelled around its base have receded to give place to the encroachments of the city.
When the colonies began to resist the encroachments of England, Falmouth took a prominent and patriotic stand.
Strengthened by the recognition of the crown, the British settlers made fresh encroachments on Spanish territory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encroachments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
