encroachments
- plural of encroachment.
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The most comprehensive of these, a document Barr signed as assistant attorney general in 1989, is entitled “Common Legislative Encroachments on Executive Branch Authority.”
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019
Encroachments are a common way for the poor, and increasingly organized land traffickers, to acquire property in Peru.
From Reuters • Aug. 15, 2012
It is, to be sure, a mammoth job, as the director of the Bureau of Encroachments and Incumbrances himself, Edward Brady, warned in 1929.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2010
Encroachments were perpetually committed, and, if not very outrageous, were often tolerated.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The Northern Men are Bold, Terrible Numerous and Brave, to the last Degree, but Poor, and by the Encroachments of their Neighbours, growing poorer every Day.
From The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Defoe, Daniel
