Logging and development have encroached on catchment areas, reducing their capacity to retain rainwater.

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Instead, over the past 20 years the European consortium has encroached on Boeing's dominant market share.

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Hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland have been destroyed and flames have encroached on Portugal's third largest city, Coimbra.

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But, according to Eritrea, militiamen from the border province of Tigray persistently encroached on Eritrean territory, ignoring polite requests to withdraw.

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Robin Urbanski, a spokeswoman for United, said the company received 700 complaints in 2008 from passengers who were upset because a larger passenger encroached on his or her seat.

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Those phone companies have encroached on cable's turf by entering the pay-TV business and are positioning themselves to offer a "quadruple play" of services that includes landline phone, high-speed Web access, cellphone, and video.

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Pope, she believes, has already encroached too far on the economics department at N.

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