(n.) The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
(n.) That which is taken by encroaching on another.
(n.) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(3) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(4) The increased tongue width will cause encroachment of the oropharyngeal airway below the level of the soft palate.
(5) But while the £1bn deal was the first of its kind, the private sector has long encroached on the NHS.
(6) It seems to be associated with structural abnormalities encroaching upon the trigeminal nerve, gasserian ganglion, or root entry zone.
(7) Cryosurgical iridocyclectomy is recommended for excision of small discrete iris tumors that encroach on the anterior ciliary body.
(8) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(9) Leaf growth will slow with encroaching cold and decreasing light, but chard will generally manage to keep producing some harvest when fresh greens are sparse.
(10) The decrease in synaptic contact length along the proximal parts of terminal branches, in which this occurs, is mostly due to a decrease in the length of close opposition (less than 0.2 micron) between the nerve terminal membrane and the postsynaptic membrane: the decrease in more distal parts of branches is due to the progressive encroachment of Schwann cell processes between the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes as well as a decrease in synaptic contact length.
(11) These narrow the posterior portion of the spinal canal and encroach on the lateral recesses.
(12) All three types eventually fail due to thrombosis, either because of their inherent thrombogenicity or because of encroachment of tissue (intimal hyperplasia) (IH) into the lumen of the graft at the point where the natural and prosthetic vessel join.
(13) Angiography also aided in differentiating hard central osteophytic from soft tissue encroachment on the spinal cord caused by herniation of a disc or thickening of the posterior longitudinal ligament.
(14) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(15) Similarly anastomotic methods which encroach on the ileal circumference by creating an inverted edge can be expected to reduce resultant capacity by 10 per cent or more.
(16) Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mediastinal tumor mass that almost totally compressed the right main pulmonary artery and also encroached upon the left pulmonary artery.
(17) This procedure decreases the likelihood of dorsal necrosis over the middle phalanx, since the dorsal neurovascular bundle is not encroached upon.
(18) Seminiferous tubules had decreased tubule diameters, hyalinized tubule walls, and occluded lumina owing either to epithelial encroachment or cellular debris and exfoliated round germ cells.
(19) This most often occurs at the site of atherosclerotic plaques encroaching on the lumen to a variable extent.
(20) Third, a hemoglobin or hematocrit within the normal range constitutes a natural buffer against encroachments upon the oxygen supply from non-Hb causes.
Incursion
Definition:
(n.) A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid.
(n.) Attack; occurrence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
(2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(3) Many of the metabolic incursions resulting from stress and oxidative damage are detrimental to disease resistance.
(4) The report says incursions were becoming more regular: “In anticipation of the entry of Australian warships (foreign war vessels) into Indonesian territorial waters, already occurring more and more often, it is necessary to increase Indonesian sovereignty in carrying out more patrols in and around the waters of Rote Ndao and Dana Island, so that foreign warships do not enter Indonesian territorial waters again,” it says.
(5) He defined the military takeover of Crimea as a "humanitarian mission" to save all Ukrainians from mortal peril, although no such danger had been apparent to the great majority of Crimea residents at the time of the incursion.
(6) TEM investigation of round-cell infiltration, observed in both group, revealed incursions of hydroxyapatite and bismuth in the macrophages.
(7) The Russian embassy in Ankara said the country’s envoy was summoned twice on Saturday and Monday to address the incursions, according to the Russian Tass news agency.
(8) With this in mind, three broad scenarios suggest themselves: The most benign outcome is that Putin envisages a Georgia-style incursion, a brief week of creating new facts on the ground, limiting the campaign to taking control of the Crimean peninsula with its majority ethnic Russian population, and then negotiating and dictating terms from a position of strength to the weak and inexperienced new leadership in Kiev.
(9) Al-Shabaab rebels, who are fighting the weak Somali government and the African Union force that supports it, have said they would retaliate for Kenya's military incursion.
(10) The rapid scaling up of the party has led Professor John Curtice, a leading political scientist, to claim that Ukip presents the "most serious fourth party incursion" into English electoral politics since the second world war.
(11) 9.08am BST Reuters has more on the pro-Russian incursion in Slaviansk Six armoured personnel carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, on Wednesday with the lead vehicle bearing the Russian flag, a Reuters eyewitness said.
(12) But in the case of Chilapa, locals believe that the masked men were simply members of a rival gang, Los Ardillos, who launched a daylight incursion into Rojos territory – while local and federal authorities watched from the sidelines.
(13) Ankara stressed the incident had followed a string of Russian incursions in recent weeks.
(14) 9.20pm BST US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that NATO should reconsider its relationship with Russia in light of its incursion into Ukraine, which should bury the idea that the end of the Cold War brought permanent peace to Europe, the Associated Press reports: "Russia's actions in Ukraine shatter that myth and usher in bracing new realities," Hagel said in a speech that captured the Obama administration's deepening concern that decades of effort to draw Russia closer to the West may be failing.
(15) The Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act makes it illegal for an Australian citizen to enter a foreign state and engage in a hostile activity, or to intend to engage in a hostile activity.
(16) As Khalid al-Mubarak, a Sudanese diplomat, noted in Sudan Vision, the African Union, the EU, the US, the UN and Russia are all of the view that, whatever the rights and wrongs of other border disputes, the Heglig incursion was unjustified and illegal under international law.
(17) Islamic State’s incursions in Iraq and Syria have left large areas of both countries under the militant group’s control.
(18) There are reports of almost daily Chinese incursions, including the unprecedented Pacific deployment of an aircraft carrier from China , the Liaoning.
(19) He has been visiting since 1998, but his properties are let as guesthouses most of the time, offering a model of small-scale tourism he hopes will ward off the incursions of modernity.
(20) "By secretly embedding weaknesses into encryption systems in order to create a 'back door' for surveillance access, the NSA creates a road map for similar cyber-incursions by others with less noble intentions," Black said in a statement.