Encroach in a sentence as a verb

I don't understand the meme that this is a move to encroach on Apple's territory.

They didn't encroach on the 'sanctity' of the former employee's home.

It's just another case of people using new technology as an excuse to encroach on rights.

MSM will no longer be the only domain that our elite overlords encroach upon.

I definitely would not have predicted that G+ would encroach on the LiveJournal/Tumblr space.

There are many kinds of torture that wouldn't encroach on editorial freedom.

Worse, the more successful you become the more these tertiary responsibilities encroach on your time.

Heroku's high prices have summoned competitors en masse, and by some stroke of luck Amazon has not really made a serious effort to encroach on Heroku's profits.

But if you allow that drinking culture to encroach on the event itself then you're marginalising a large group of people, you're invoking all the dreadful fratboy stereotypes that the tech industry so desperately needs to shake off.

You're free to do what you want as long as it doesn't encroach on the freedom of others, and if being spied on makes you not want to do some things you ought to be able to do, then that's just tough luck, but not a restriction on liberty or your security?

As I recall, the entire reason for having a Bill of Rights was the fear -- to the point of considering this a certainty -- that the government would encroach on individual rights and continue encroaching unless it was specifically forbidden to do so.

Not proof that araneae's statement is accurate, of course, but a demonstration that science continues to encroach on the domain of philosophy in ways that the philosophers of old could never have imagined:Back in the 17th century there was an argument between Descartes and Spinoza about how knowledge was formed.

Encroach definitions

verb

advance beyond the usual limit

See also: infringe impinge

verb

impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"

See also: impinge entrench trench