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  • noun Plural form of encroachment.

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Examples

  • Regent, suffered impatiently what it called the encroachments of the

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Regent, suffered impatiently what it called the encroachments of the

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 11 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

  • Regent, suffered impatiently what it called the encroachments of the

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

  • What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • What it termed its concessions were our conquests; what it termed our encroachments were our rights.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • - In 1930, under French colonial rule, King Sisowath Monivong (1875-1941), fearing and wanting to contain Vietnamese encroachments, ordered on-the-spot land measurements, border delineation and mapping of that part of Svay Rieng province where Sam Rainsy pulled out the so-called border post.

    KI Media 2010

  • As a result, Kremlin resistance to Western "encroachments" is sure to further boost its domestic popularity.

    Ian Bremmer: Wary of Future, Russia Confronts U.S., EU Now 2008

  • For one, it allows claims to individual family titles to already occupied or cultivated forest land that are currently considered 'encroachments'.

    IPS Inter Press Service Manipadma Jena 2010

  • Principal Secretary Municipal Administration and Urban Development to re-survey/study entire open spaces in Visakhapatnam area to end such kind of encroachments, he said in a letter to the Principal Secretary.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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