Word: encroach
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...Look at it from another point of view. It is simply impossible to have rules of conduct whereby we cannot encroach on the Soviet sphere while the Soviets exercise an unlimited right to create turmoil in our sphere. If that's the situation, then over a period of time the defeat of free societies is foreordained...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Association voted unanimously last night to declare that Harvard has, in its view, broken its past promises not to encroach on the city...
...Bakke case is part of a larger societal move to reverse the limited civil rights gains of the '60s, Smith said, adding that "although we have seen some modest efforts at remedying past inequalities, there's a morbid preoccupation with whether these modest efforts are so significant that they encroach on the rights of whites...
...separate (though theoretically allied) guerrilla armies-one associated with Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), the other affiliated with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). To the west of Belingwe, ZANU is said to have warned a ZAPU group not to encroach. There are many arms caches in the Tribal Trust Land-perhaps in store for a day of reckoning between the two factions...
...This proposal will shorten reading period and that will encroach on a student's Christmas vacation," John Crocker III '77, CHUL representative from Eliot House, said yesterday...