Word: encroachment
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...election coincided with political reform, which transferred considerable powers from the office of the President to the Rada and the Rada-nominated Prime Minister. After controversial parliamentary maneuvers and alliance building, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately set out to encroach on the President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned...
...attorney tried to stop institutional development on Centre Street at the West Roxbury/Jamaica Plain/Roslindale border. When Joyce Kilmer Park and its nine acres of open space were sold for a new institutional facility in 1956, Harvard’s attorney argued that institutional development at the site would encroach on open space at the Arboretum’s adjacent parcel...
Forty years ago, when the city examined the possibility of building a public high school across from Forest Hills Station and adjacent to the Arboretum, it was Harvard that objected, saying that any such institutional development at its doorstep would encroach on open space at the Arboretum next door...
...changes in environmental cues--things like ice cover, temperature and salinity--are reflected in other natural events. The growth rates of algae and phytoplankton change. Salmon are migrating to western Arctic waters from the northern Pacific. There is concern that Atlantic cod will encroach in the east and compete with the smaller Arctic cod, which have thrived in frigid climates with their special proteins that prevent freezing of the blood. Meanwhile, the retracting ice makes it harder for ringed seals to find breeding grounds and for polar bears to hunt...
...continue to use the terror-fighting tools that were first passed in the panicked aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Although we recognize the necessity of taking steps to fight terrorism, parts of the Patriot Act overstep reasonable bounds. This sort of legislation makes way for more laws that encroach on personal liberties, and it marks a dangerous precedent. The intention of the Patriot Act—to protect the citizens of the United States—is a sincere one. Of course, security is a continuum that comes, to some extent, as a tradeoff with privacy; a nation that...