Verb (used without object) : A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.    From Dictionary.com. 

SCHWARTZ: That's a big thing among blue collar workers and kind of encroaches in to some of Hillary's base.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2008] Reference

Anybody encroaches on your right you think it is not right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference

The lesion encroaches upon and implicates the macular region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

If one of these encroaches on the others, their share is in danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference

And encroaches or beats all the GOP candidates in solidly Red States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards Doesn't Promise To Support Hillary As The Nominee] Reference

"There's a whole procedure when someone encroaches into the security zone," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Get To Nuke Plant? With a Paddle] Reference

COOPER: We keep hearing more and more of these stories as man encroaches in on nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2004] Reference

However, as stories are passed from one person to another, fiction encroaches upon fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

The numbing growth of Cairo encroaches on the soulful pyramids of her earlier inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Singer, M.D.: Psyche and the City: A Soul's Guide to the Modern Metropolis] Reference

She can't imagine moving to the glassy high-rise landscape that encroaches from all sides.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Backstreets of a Changing City'] Reference

Spartina encroaches into salt marsh and mud flat habitats, crowding out native plants and animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington] Reference

The cistern is located south of the building and encroaches upon the colonnaded street in front of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Upper Agora Report 3] Reference

This means we really have no choice but to confront fundamentalism as it encroaches on public policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [FACING FUNDAMENTALISM] Reference

"Government encroaches on civil society, such as professional associations, sports bodies and churches.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sometimes, however, the region's turbulent politics encroaches on the lives of even the most apolitical.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Palissy, encroaches by degrees on the capital of his fortune, which melts away in his furnace and alembics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

When the Center encroaches upon the powers of the States, constitutional crisis and disputes are bound to arise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center-State Relationships And Law Enforcement Difficulties] Reference

As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

As civilization encroaches, the bird population will gradually decline, dying or relocating to more remote places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birders Flock East] Reference

The physical expansion of the economic subsystem encroaches on the rest of the whole and incurs an opportunity cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference

The owner of a BMW 745i, however, took issue with our assertion that the car's computer encroaches on its sportiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Living With Technology @Home &Amp; @Pl] Reference

Every few minutes, the fan's action is reversed and the plastic swells inward and encroaches on the visitors 'bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Steinhilber retrospective: Escaping definitions] Reference

Here, large areas are completely devoid of vegetation, while elsewhere Acanthosicyos horrida encroaches upon the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kaokoveld desert] Reference

When the callus growth is once formed, the fungus of the original canker encroaches on it very slowly, or often not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference

And the Supreme Court will hear arguments today on a child pornography law and whether or not it encroaches on free speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007] Reference

Then a third couple encroaches — a pair of hostile, tattooed and potentially dangerous hippies who give Cliff the willies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tourist Trap] Reference

So, as the economy grows, it displaces, it encroaches upon the biosphere, and this is the fundamental cost of economic growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of the Hour] Reference

Israel says it's building the huge fence in the West Bank to keep out attackers, but the Palestinians say it encroaches on their land.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2005] Reference

Yes we have bike lanes, but no, they're not policed: traffic encroaches on them at will, often at great danger to their legitimate users.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Hendra: New York City Council Votes No on Pedicabs, Yes on Globe-Warming, Gas-Guzzling Behemoths.] Reference

There will be a need for a large number of antibiotics to fight things like pneumonia, which will definitely come as the winter encroaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2001] Reference

With no dialogue and barely any narration, the movie follows a young horse who's watching the transformation of his land as civilization encroaches on the wilderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Artist's Touch] Reference