Word: encroach
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...good thing anywhere, and if the American can talk the hind legs off an English donkey, it is the donkey's fault. The trouble, we think, is not that Columbus went too far . . . On the contrary, it is that we permit this influence, however well-intentioned, to encroach too much upon the English preserve. It is a sad reflection on our initiative. If the solution is to abandon the leisurely mediocrity which is still our stigma, then it is high time we got down...
...ships up & down the China coast. When the Japanese in 1895 demanded the cession of Formosa, after defeating China in war, the influential taipans of Butterfield & Swire sent a haughty admonition to His Majesty's Minister in Peking: the Japanese, they insisted, must not be permitted to encroach on British trading privileges...
...Trib labelled the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press, on which three University professors served, as "unprecedented in the history of the United States for its assumption of privilege to encroach on the constitutional liberty of the American Press...
...believes, will be far too weak during the next 20 to 30 years. The danger as he sees it is rather that the Soviet Union might stumble into war through trying to repair its weakness-i.e., in trying to widen its protective belt of satellite states, it may encroach on the West's own conception of security...
...flamboyant, operatic finery, is set in late 19th Century Texas. The evil old cattle baron (Lionel Barrymore) lives in a pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...