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- Dictionaryen·croach·ment/inˈkrōCHm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.: "minor encroachments on our individual liberties"
- 2. a penalty in which a defensive player is positioned in the neutral zone at the start of a play.
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5 days ago · MANILA – The Philippines will remain steadfast in standing against any territorial encroachments that undermine its sovereignty. National Security Adviser Eduardo Año made this assurance as Manila marks the 8th anniversary of the historic Arbitral Award on the South China Sea on Friday.
2 days ago · 1 Introduction. Woody Plant Encroachment (WPE) into grasslands has been widely observed across diverse regions, from the tropics (Venter et al., 2018) to temperate zones (Lunt et al., 2010; Sanjuán et al., 2018) and even the Arctic (Brodie et al., 2019; García Criado et al., 2020).In the United States, the central and Southern Great Plains (SGP) exhibit an alarmingly rapid WPE rate (∼1.7% ...
5 days ago · Recent News. democracy, literally, rule by the people. The term is derived from the Greek dēmokratia, which was coined from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”) in the middle of the 5th century bce to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
1 day ago · The plan involves collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to create a detailed map of the area. This effort aims to collect data on land encroachment and reservation to improve the administration of the area. The Phou Phanang National Conservation Area spans 70,000 hectares, primarily located in Vientiane Capital.
2 days ago · Summary. The state subject category is a critical part of Kashmir’s history. It gained global traction in August 2019 after India’s far-right Bhartiya Janta party unilaterally abolished the state subject laws embedded in Article 35A of the Indian constitution that permitted only the longtime inhabitants of Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir to purchase land and seek employment in the state.
3 days ago · Given that fire severity is defined by the extent of vegetation change and soil impacts as a result of a fire, most fire severity indices are influenced by prefire species composition (Keeley, 2009). However, we utilized the RBR index as it had been shown to better account for differences in prefire species composition in low biomass ecosystems (De Simone et al., 2020 ; Miller & Thode, 2007 ).
1 day ago · “As with any permit, they will need to submit plans for review, make any adjustments per the feedback from our planning, building, and engineering staff, and once approved from a design and safety perspective, get an encroachment permit (basically a permit to use the public right-of-way), and finally sign a license agreement (one year).
