I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.
I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.
You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.