Word: encroaching
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...Summit Conference is only a symbol that nations are willing to search for solutions by peaceful means. The moment that chiefs of state cease being symbols and start to encroach upon the responsibilities of professional diplomats, effective diplomacy breaks down. Alternatives become rigid platforms from which there is no retreat with honor. The normal process of give and take is impossible...
...Western Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who first conceived SEATO. But the basic factor underlying success in both places is confidence that the U.S. will neither encroach upon nor abandon its friends and allies...
...that all of the powers entrusted to the Government are divided into three great departments, the executive, the legislative and the judicial. It is essential to the successful working of this system that the persons entrusted with power in any one of these branches shall not be permitted to encroach upon the powers confided to the others . . . The doctrine of separation of power was adopted to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power and to save the people from autocracy...
Perhaps the smallest nuisance to the library is its one non-reading permanent inhabitant--the illegitimate son of the Duke of Monmouth, who is buried directly under the building. When the library was first planned the trustees found that one corner of the contemplated land would encroach on the old Grancry graveyard. Graveyard officials gave permission to dig up the graves until they discovered what illustrious guest they were planning to re-air. This changed everything and the architect had to revise his plans and build a special vault for the Duke's boy to leave him undisturbed...
...fellow Virginians. He cultivated prominent men. At 21, by virtue of his own eagerness and the good will of Robert Dinwiddie, the colony's stiff-necked royal governor, he set off through the western wilderness on his first military mission-charged with warning the French not to encroach on crown claims in the Ohio Valley...