impinge
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The 1951 treaty allowed the U.S. military almost unlimited permission to operate there, as long as it didn’t impinge on Danish sovereignty or freedom of movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It states that it does not impinge on constitutionally protected rights to express political, academic or ideological disagreements.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Analogous to the U.S. situation, some leading voices in Chinese tech are telling the government that tighter measures would slow down AI development in China and ultimately impinge on its growth potential.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
In other words, actions like mining development, agriculture and so on, unleash a whole lot of chemicals which impinge on us every day.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024
The one hundred and twenty men and women who faced the Roman world with the determination to impinge their faith upon it, seemed the most audaciously unwise of all forlorn and hopeless fanatics.
From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman
They have claimed this ban actually risks making children less safe, argued it impinges on their rights, and repeatedly pointed to the questions around the tech that will be used to enforce the policy.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Lawyers for Carter said in briefs that the type of training ordered “is a commonplace civil contempt sanction” and denied that it impinges on the airline’s free speech rights.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
He also argues the new consultation requirement impinges on academic freedom.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2023
Most Italians support the provision, opinion polls show, but a vocal minority says it impinges on core labour rights.
From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2021
Passing farther inland, it impinges upon the hills which run down from the Quathlamba Range, waters them, and sometimes falls in snow on the loftiest peaks.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
Brusuelas says the economy likely won’t be impinged so long as oil stays below $125 a barrel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Baez was determined that the documentary represent “an honest legacy,” both the heights of her 1960s-era activism, as well as the “wrinkles” that impinged upon her personal journey.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
The secrecy deprived the public of the opportunity to scrutinise the government's actions in Dili and impinged upon the procedural fairness afforded to Mr Collaery, advocates say.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2022
"This is a signal of more general pressure from aggregate demand on today's impinged supply," Evans said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2022
It showed that a person’s decision making is impinged by something as simple as a modest memory task.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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“Magnificent Seven” stocks are impinging on investors’ returns, according to Citigroup — and it’s triggered the fourth-worst day for momentum stocks in 22 years.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
However, to allow the declaration element of Massa's case to proceed "comes too close in my view to impinging on the right of the FIA to govern its own affairs", the judge said.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
Those things are impinging on what cells do and the genes they will use.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023
"I don't think that's impinging on anybody's First Amendment rights to protect my staff."
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
The stream of high-speed electrons impinging upon the energy beam fluoresced into ultra-spicules of intense light.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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