Encroachment

/ɪŋˈkɹoʊt͡ʃmənt/

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administrative overreachborder encroachmentgovernment encroachmentland encroachmentnoise encroachmentpolice overreachurban encroachmentweed encroachment

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border encroachmentland encroachmentprivacy encroachmenturban encroachmentweed encroachment

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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A flood can be defined as the encroachment of water in an area or region which is usually dry.

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Owing to the encroachment of the sea, it had also been found necessary to remove Comboyuro Point Lighthouse and the keeper's cottage some 200 feet further inland.

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When it comes to urbanization, Algeria is enforcing zoning regulations and trying to prevent encroachment on agricultural and forested areas.

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