Word: encroachment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These aggressions, which encroach upon Egyptian independence, violate its Constitution and are a menace to its economic life, have no precedent in history...
...idea of cloistering the Yard with a fringe of small dormitories, as set forth in the new building program, is almost certain to arouse student opposition from at least a portion of the undergraduate body. It is new. It is sudden. Above all, it seems to encroach upon what many members of the University have time out of mind considered hallowed ground. So away with...
...question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded into a communistic or socialistic State or whether it will remain American. Those who want to continue to enjoy the high state of American citizenship will resist all attempts to encroach upon the power of the courts." In closing, he praised the disarmament treaties and the Experts' (Dawes) Plan. In Chicago, Mr. Dawes maintained a continued silence which has endured since his speech on agriculture at Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). One of his chief occupations was the preparation of a speech for delivery in Milwaukee-pointblank at Mr. LaFollette...
...League of Nations, however noble may have been its intentions, was not approved by the people of the United States, because it did not make clear to their minds that it did not encroach upon the sovereignty and the power and right of independent decision of the United States as to its own duty and action under all circumstances...
...time of the Washington Conference in November, 1921, it became fairly clear that the Lansing-Ishii agreement was moribund. President Harding practically said so. The powers swore not to encroach upon China, and Mr. Wang went home happier even though Baron Shidibara declared: "To say that Japan has special interests in China is simply to state a plain and actual fact...