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  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online:

    encroach on/upon sth phrasal verb

    1 to gradually take away someone else's rights, or to take control of someone's time, work, etc:

    What the government is proposing encroaches on the rights of individuals

    I resent it that my job is starting to encroach on my family life.

    2 to gradually cover more and more of an area of land

    They have promised that the development will not encroach on public land.

    August 23, 2008

  • CDO: more important than anything else:

    There are many priorities, but reducing the budget deficit is paramount/is of paramount importance.

    August 23, 2008

  • From Oxford Dictionary Online:

    a. gen. Of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process. rare.

    b. spec. in Psychol. Of or pertaining to a ‘limen’ or ‘threshold.’

    July 31, 2008

  • From the Oxford English Dictionary Online:

    Relating to, concerned with, or designating laws, esp. (Philos.) ones which are not logical necessities; relating to nomology. Occas. as n.: a nomological law.

    July 30, 2008

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    August 4, 2008