encroachment

Example Sentences

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But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.

From BBC

Now, fires, drought and human encroachment on their habitat are driving them into wealthy suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that would ban exports the president has already judged to pose no security risk—a dangerous encroachment on the president’s foreign-affairs power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Inside the company, signs of Amazon’s encroachment didn’t go over well.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, condemned Wednesday's ruling as "yet another encroachment on the jurisdiction of the government and parliament".

From Barron's