Word: encroachment
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...Extra curriculum activities at Oxford are decidedly secondary." Maud answered, responding to a question. "One can serve both God and Mammon there because of their relative importance in our minds. Outside activities are necessary to some extent, but they do not encroach upon the primary motive of our college life, studies. Such a paper as the CRIMSON would be entirely too much of an effort for us to make and still devote ourselves to studies...
...Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...
...would think that Chicago with its $100,000,000 annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis...
...Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years in so far as those needs do not encroach upon her function as a university of culture and intelligence, Harvard faces the future as honestly and with as much pride as she remembers her past. And to do both is fundamentally necessary in an age of Mussolinis and mechanics, plebiscites and prohibition, factual fancies and fanciful facts...
...These aggressions, which encroach upon Egyptian independence, violate its Constitution and are a menace to its economic life, have no precedent in history...