"encroachable" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Quest, numbers 105-106, Centre for Society and Religion, pages 56-57:",
          "text": "[…] the largest extents of encroachments were found in the Dry Zone Districts, such as Anuradhapura, Kurunegala and Moneragala, where encroachable State lands were readily available (Table I). […] Between 1979-1985, some 104,490 new encroachments covering an extent of 70,646 Ha (174,566 acres) took place with high encroachments in the Central Province (40% increase over 1978). The Western Province comes second. This excludes […]",
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          "ref": "2005, C. A. Gregory, “Chapter III: Land as the supreme good”, in Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange, Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "Consider now the cultivators' perspective. The dilemma facing them is presented statistically in Table III.1 which shows the relationship between the rural population and land use in Bastar from 1931 to 1991. During this period the population trebled while the area under cultivation increased by only 80%. The period from 1931 to 1951 was a period of relative land surplus. As the population increased, the forest land was encroached upon. The period from 1951, by way of contrast, was one of relative land scarcity. Encroachable forest land became scarcer and the farm holdings per household became smaller as more people were forced to live on the same area of land.",
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          "ref": "2017 [1958], Susan Bassnett, quoting Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In her Journals Sylvia Plath notes the complex range of feelings she has towards her mother:\nI may hate her, but that's not all. I ... love her too. 'After all, as the story goes, she's my mother. 'She can't encroach unless you're encroachable on.' So my hate and fear derive from my own insecurity. Which is? And how to combat it? (26 December 1958)\nWHAT DO I EXPECT BY 'LOVE' FROM HER? WHAT IS IT I DON'T GET THAT MAKES ME CRY? I think I have always felt she uses me as an extension of herself; that when I commit suicide, or try to, it is a 'shame' to her, an accusation: which it was, of course. (27 December 1958)\nOne reason I could keep up such a satisfactory letter-relationship with her while in England was we could both verbalize our desired image of ourselves in relation to each other. (27 December 1958)",
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        "That can be encroached or encroached upon."
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          "text": "Consider now the cultivators' perspective. The dilemma facing them is presented statistically in Table III.1 which shows the relationship between the rural population and land use in Bastar from 1931 to 1991. During this period the population trebled while the area under cultivation increased by only 80%. The period from 1931 to 1951 was a period of relative land surplus. As the population increased, the forest land was encroached upon. The period from 1951, by way of contrast, was one of relative land scarcity. Encroachable forest land became scarcer and the farm holdings per household became smaller as more people were forced to live on the same area of land.",
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          "text": "In her Journals Sylvia Plath notes the complex range of feelings she has towards her mother:\nI may hate her, but that's not all. I ... love her too. 'After all, as the story goes, she's my mother. 'She can't encroach unless you're encroachable on.' So my hate and fear derive from my own insecurity. Which is? And how to combat it? (26 December 1958)\nWHAT DO I EXPECT BY 'LOVE' FROM HER? WHAT IS IT I DON'T GET THAT MAKES ME CRY? I think I have always felt she uses me as an extension of herself; that when I commit suicide, or try to, it is a 'shame' to her, an accusation: which it was, of course. (27 December 1958)\nOne reason I could keep up such a satisfactory letter-relationship with her while in England was we could both verbalize our desired image of ourselves in relation to each other. (27 December 1958)",
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