The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
Power is of an encroaching nature.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.